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Posted on 04/20/2006 2:10:46 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Dagnabit.
~Good morning!~
What about this fish tank of mine? Do you want it? It still has a few live snails in it. No fish. I have all the filter pump stuff, gravel, scenery, a light hood, though I think the bulbs are burned out, heater and stuff...
I'm just tired of having a fish tank. I'd store it for awhile, but I'd also bring it up, with or without the snails, if you'd like having it.
So far not any I couldn't live with...
I've got some slug and snail bait...
I ran away once.
When I finally gave up out of hunger and came home, no one had even realized I had left.
I do, but not right away since I won't be buying anything to put in it until the house is settled.
And of course, as you said yesterday, I am no longer a sole decision maker - so I'd have to get the OK from Ramius first.
But yes, I'd love to have it so I can get some more hermies. :-)
Aren't you funny.
~grin~
Good morning!
What do you think? I value your thoughts...
It used to be in the olden days when Steve was trying to find a job (after he graduated with his BS in 94) that you made up a swank resume, on one page, with deluxe paper. The idea was to make it eye-catching.
Now, everywhere he applies, it might ask for an uploaded resume, but it most of the time asks if you want to build one. Then it goes through a series of questions that once you're done with it, it's WAY longer than a page! I like the idea of building a resume on a business's website, because I figure they're asking what they want to know and that if you upload a one-page resume then you're not covering all the things they want! Do you agree?
Also, a lot of times they'll ask for you to just copy and paste a resume...does he need to worry about it being just one page? It's plain text, so the font isn't adjustable.
Help! I feel like I'm going by the old rules and I think things have changed! Any tips would be highly appreciated!
I worry a lot less about "eye-catching" than I used to. Most people have access to a computer, so it's not quite as impressive as it used to be.
Neat and accurate are more important than "pretty."
For those that ask you to enter specific info, that's what's important to them, so go with that.
And I wouldn't worry about keeping it to one page.
Keywords
Ok...the one-page business was really getting to me because that was pounded into me in office ed in high school...early 80s!
But I was beginning to have doubts because even Monster (I figure they know what they're doing) built Steve a resume and it was 2 and half pages long! Very thorough!
Keywords?
I think most hiring people nowadays put resumes on the computer, so I wouldn't worry about keeping it at one page especially if you're entering your data into their format.
You want to put in keywords that'll pop out when they use the search function...my 2 cent's worth.
I'd agree that if a business has a Q&A on their website, go with that.
If you send your own resume, I'd still try to make it swanky and one page... unless, with highly technical types, like his might be, and then go to two pages ~only~ if the second page is as pretty and as full as the first one.
In other words, if it's just bleeding a few lines or a paragraph onto the next page like it wasn't really planned, make it fit on one. If it can fill two full pages without just filling with a bunch of unneeded words, do that.
I'd make it swanky as you can, even include a bit of color if he wants, in a border line, or his header. Like Corin said, everyone has access to a computer nowadays, but I take the opposite view he does. IMHO, everyone has the ability to make them really nicely formatted nowadays, so those who are just plain-black-all-the-same-size-text might look very dated.
Ahh...like in Steve's case a few would be:
Environmental
Water Quality
HAZWOPER
Ok...
Hehehe...
"site remediation", "Master's Degree", "RCRA experience", etc. They might just use the search function to find whatever experience they're looking for instead of reading the whole resume.
Yeah.
I think we're out of phase on our posts. :)
Ok. I was able to make his Monster one into one and half pages. They had included a bunch of stuff I didn't think was absolutely needed on the resume, like if he was in the military. With his references, he should be right at two pages.
Yeah, remediation is a good one...
In my case, most of the time if someone did contact me for a Monster or Career Builder job, the first thing they asked for was a copy of my resume in Word format. So...I'd say OT is right - they just use the sites for looking for keywords, and don't really look too closely at that resume.
I feel like I'm more of an expect at applying for jobs without result than at getting jobs, so I hesitate to give any advice. ;-)
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