RE: Tips on Getting Hired

[Ami WRIGHT <ami -at- ziplink -dot- net>]

Edwin,

If I'm reading your post correctly, HR people and managers don't react to
your resume the way that you're hoping they will, so you've concluded that
people don't know how to read a resume. 

Perhaps you could think of this sort of like usability testing the document:

You write a document (in this case, a resume). You try it out on your
target audience (in this case, HR and hiring managers). The target audience
misses the point of the document.

To me that seems to indicate that the document needs to be revised, not
that there's some kind of problem with the user.

-Ami


-----Original Message----- 
From: Edwin Skau [mailto:eddy -dot- skau -at- gmail -dot- com] 
Subject: Re: Tips on Getting Hired
Every job I have held has contributed to what I know and who I am as an 
employee. The CV I use for publications jobs provides an insight into 
how I 
have grown professionally, and how each successive job has built on 
skills 
learned in a previous position.
My five-page CV is a concise map of my professional growth, where I do 
not 
bother to provide details about my employer (a link to their web page 
should 
suffice), or describe my role. I list achievements and highlight unique 
challenges.
---------
Not everybody knows how to read a CV. Most just look at the data 
presented 
and draw the easiest inference possible.
'You've moved around a bit," and "You seem to have varied experience," 
are 
reactions my CV often elicits. The best insight, however, came from 
someone 
I currently work with. "You seem to have been looking for meaningful 
work. I 
think you'll like it here." She apparently correlated my achievements 
with 
my tenure at various positions...
Well, she was right on both counts.
---------
I guess it isn't the length of your CV that counts... it's what you say 
with 
it. Although conventional wisdom on the two-page length abounds, and 
when it 
comes to managers and recruitment, sometimes sheep look like independent 
thinkers in comparison...
Edwin




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