resume formats
resume formats
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Do you as employers look positively on internet syle resumes/links instead of attached word documents? I had a clever idea for a resume:
Since I'm a civil engineer and our works are more recognizable from the sky, I was thinking of creating first a personal website with basic employment history but also showing showing aerial photography of projects I've worked on.
This can be answered by anyone the question of isn't it best to just show off your work than to have to rely on vague wording?
Since I'm a civil engineer and our works are more recognizable from the sky, I was thinking of creating first a personal website with basic employment history but also showing showing aerial photography of projects I've worked on.
This can be answered by anyone the question of isn't it best to just show off your work than to have to rely on vague wording?





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Jake
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KISS- Keep it simple, stupid. Keep your resume as short and sweet as you can. If they call you in for an interview, then that's where you break out the portfolio of previous projects, and let them sift through it, asking questions as they go.
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Hiring managers are busy and don't want to waste time hunting for what they need to know. Keep it simple. I reformatted my resume so that it begins with a "Key Skills" section, followed by work history. I've gotten much positive feedback on this, much of it from potential employers during interviews.
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On the other hand, I have heard that some HR depts will check you out on the web, and if you've got drunk party pictures of yourself up on myspace or some other semi-public web site (I think we'd all be suprised at how public Facebook pictures are too), it would not be a good thing.
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This all depends on the position applying for. If it's web design, I would send them the direct link to the web site.
Keep the information as little as possible, but pertaining only to the position applying for.
Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 06/08
ctopher's home (updated Jul 13, 2008)
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Regarding the website, I definitely think it's a good idea for someone to get a little more information about you if they decide they are interested in you. Nobody is going to seek out your online resume if that is the only format you provide, there just isn't time when a hiring manager is looking at a stack of 50-100 (or more) resumes. In cases like that you have only a few seconds to make a good impression or you lose out on an interview. When I had a website, my resume included my name and contact information at the top, with an email address and website address as well. My website registered a few hits when I was interviewing a few years ago.
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I don't hire directly, but I review candidate resumes and conduct interviews to assist my boss who does do the hiring. I get a stack of paper printouts to take a look at. Even being a younger guy who makes regular use of the internet, I don't think I would have much interest in someone's website linked in their resume.
I say if you want to combine the internet with your job search, Google for resume formats, especially for technical jobs, and see how you write a tight, one page resume. Clear, concise writing, absolutely perfect punctuation and highlights of the engineering tools (i.e. software relevant to your ares) and types of projects you have in your background will go a long way to getting you in the door.
Also, maybe I've just never seen a good one, but I've always found the notion of and "Objective" on a resume to be dumb. Your objective should be the job I'm interviewing you for and your resume should be tailored to reflect that. I find most "Objective" statements to come across as pretentious.
As always, YMMV.
Edward L. Klein
Pipe Stress Engineer
Houston, Texas
"All the world is a Spring"
All opinions expressed here are my own and not my company's.
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The same resume reviewed by different, nominally equally qualified, people can get very different comments.
When I last spent a lot of time re-formatting mine the big thing seemed to be "give tangible results not just say you have experience doing XXX". This caused the length of my resume to almost double.
I also re-jigged it to have my opening sales pitch followed by a skills summary or something like that before listing my employers (in which I had all the examples).
I still got a job but, maybe if it had been better I would have got one sooner.
I give up, my sister in law prepared resumes as part of her job and has offered to look at mine but I'm almost scared to let her have it, I'm not sure I could take the pain of being told how bad it is.
KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...