Event: DC ACM Resume Workshop on March 1, 2010
The Washington DC Chapter of the Association of Computer Machinists (DC ACM) is hosting a Resume Workshop for area IT professionals on Monday, March 1, 2010 from 6:30-8:30pm in downtown Washington, DC. The event is open to DC ACM Members and non-members. This is an outstanding opportunity to get a free resume review [...]
The Best DC Area Video Resume I’ve Seen
You may remember some of the video resume mentions from a few years back. The truth is that there hasn’t been one that stood out that I’ve seen in a while. That is, until now.
A friend from the DC Tech Community passed this one on to me today. It doesn’t start off [...]
Reasonable Disclosure on Resumes
Is this you or someone you know?
The number of resumes finding their way into my inbox has been climbing over the last few weeks. I haven’t decided whether this is a result of new found hope on the part of job seekers, the long tail of discussions about networking as part of the job search, [...]
And the best Job Board Is…
Not what you might expect. This is directed more at Job Seekers than it is at employers to be quite honest. The best job board isn’t a job board at all. In fact, the best job board is where you want it to be: on your personal web profile of choice or on your personal [...]
A Clear Objective
If you are not getting the kind of response from your resume that you think you should then it may be time to consider whether you have a clear objective. This isn’t a difficult task unless you have a page long summary of your skills, experience and objectives. Your resume’s objective or summary [...]
Is Your Entry Level Resume Complete?
It is that time of year again when entry level resumes start circulating in larger numbers. For the highly competitive software engineering community, startups in particular, most entry level resumes follow one of two paths: from inbox to rejected folder or from inbox to maybe consider folder. Trust me when I say that [...]
Yeah, You’re Well Rounded AND Tricky Too
Not a day goes by that I don’t see someone trying to scheme the hiring teams that I work with. Some people adjust the dates on their resume or shuffle the information contained in them while others try to make their resume objective so fuzzy that they they could be anything from CEO to mail [...]
Resume Fraud 101
Many of us have made changes to our resumes to package ourselves for the job. Somtimes this is a simple re-wording of job duties or a formatting change to hide the fact that we were not in a job for very long. In many cases it is something like 11/2005-1/2006 being transposed into 2005-2006. The [...]
Should A Resume Contain a Photo?
Recruiters, HR Professionals and Hiring Teams should not be looking at your profile photo at all when they are considering you as a candidate because it might create a bias – racial, gender, age, etc. Differentiation between applicants based on any of these criteria is illegal. By the time you reach the in person interview [...]
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