June 07, 2004
Is there an HR wannabe in the house?
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I've uploaded the preliminary version of my resume. If anybody would be so kind as to take a peek at it and give some feedback I'd be grateful. Be as critical as you can - the better this gets, the better my chance of finding a job.
What's missing? What's superfluous? How's the formatting? Pleasing to the eye? Short enough? Too long? Lemme know.
This is in MS Word format. If you need it in a different format I'd be happy to oblige, just email me and I'll send it right to you.
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It looks good--if we had any computers in the Technology Free Zone™ and you'd work for $5.50 an hour, I'd hire you!
I like to see an "accomplishments" section before or after "responsibilities" too.
The 'page 1 of 1', 'page 2 of 1' fields in the footer need to be updated before you print and distribute it.
accomplishments are indeed more important than responsibilities...indicate the value you can bring to new company, not just positions you can hold down ( although you can hold down alot!!).
there shouldn't be any "I's" in the resume...and perhaps you want to lay out what type of job you are looking for ..ie "Objective". Do you want another QA job, Network Management , etc.
Lastly, lose the Adminstrative Assitant, go with Office Manger - you managed 5 Exec's that's qualifies as an office!!
good luck
You may want to consider going to a professional service for your resume. I think your layout and position details could be better. You obviously have the experience but you want to make sure that it comes across in a professional resume.
Looks good - clean format, no typos. However, we in HR like to see a more action-oriented resume. Replace statements like "I was responsible" with "Responsible...". In all of your bulleted duties, make the tense consistent and change them all to verbs (i.e., "Software evaluation, purchase and implementation" becomes "Evaluating, purchasing, and implementing software").
Good luck!!
There's good advice here from others. A good guide for resume building is here (let me know if it doesn't work and I'll send you the page directly).
"I" like to bend the rules a bit - I'd leave in several of the I's, but reconsider others...
From what I know of you - one of your strengths is in your "soft" skills and those skills are hard to emphasis on a resume. (But important to mention & demonstrate in an interview.)
Moving the summary to the top may draw more attention to those skills, but may also cause the reader to just skip the rest...
I have trouble with accomplishments too. Sometimes it's connect-the-dots type crap that to me is crap - "Created, designed, tested & implemented new order management system used by salespeople to increase gross revenues by 250%" - who did what? Was my system responsible for 250%? or was it the fact that the company went from 2 to 10 salespeople? or a new product launch? - that kind of crap...
Anyway - Overall, I like it.
*I'm not a HR guy so I wouldn't give my suggestions too much weight.