[TriLUG] Local Resume pros?

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Sat, 31 Mar 2012, Carl Crider wrote:

> I'm looking for a local resume pro with a decent (3-5 
> days) turnaround time. All leads are appreciated.

I'm not sure that a general purpose resume gets you far (I 
don't know, but I think it doesn't, IANAHM - hiring manager)

I've put a lot of effort into figuring out about resumes. 
Not having got a job yet (but having managed to avoid taking 
a whole lot that I don't want) I don't know whether my vote 
should have much weight. The only things that everyone 
agrees on is that it be 2 pages or less and that the resume 
is to get an interview, not to get a job.

Resumes will be _first_ read by read by two different types 
of people

o HR/recruiters. For these, you are scored by matching 
words. You have to have all the words required in the job 
spec (in the right tense) or not make it. In this case you 
are applying to a company who contracts out their search for 
their most important resource, the human capital, to idiots. 
These are the same people who when looking for a wife say 
"get me a wife; she must meet requirements x,y,z and be as 
cheap as possible". The workers being sought are fungible 
(at least in the minds of the people involved in hiring), eg 
unix admins, programmers... When you arrive on the job, you 
will be working for the people who accept that idiots do the 
most important job in the house.

o Hiring managers. I think I've seen 1 or 2 of these in the 
last year. These people want to know what projects you've 
originated or pushed through to completion, how you've shown 
initiative and how you've contributed to your work place. 
These people don't care about details of your works skills a 
whole lot. They want to know projects.

Either way, your resume will have to be modified for each 
job.

Joe
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