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Re: Certification -- what's in it for writers

Subject: Re: Certification -- what's in it for writers
From: "William Sherman" <bsherman77 -at- embarqmail -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 09:30:13 -0400

I did one of those functional type resumes about 20 years ago as it was building to too large of a size. It got zero results. Too far ahead and too far from the norm.

A year ago, I did another, on the advice of a manager where I was about the be laid off. He said that was what he and other managers were looking for. I got very little response to it, and what usually I got, was a call from a recruiter to rewrite it in a conventional manner - title, company, time, job description and duties.

So my experience has been that even though this seems like the logical and right way to approach a resume situation like this, those doing the hiring are stuck in their old formal ways and discard it.


----- Original Message ----- From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
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What I would do if I had a history like that would be to gather it all together under some sort of umbrella category that establishes me as a 10-year "writer for hire," describe the services I provided and then list my companies as clients. I'd also create a chronological list of companies and projects and have it available in the event anyone seems to care.

Working the way you describe you are essentially self-employed whether you've been 1099 or W2. Make the diverse work history work for you rather than against you.

Gene Kim-Eng



----- Original Message ----- From: "William Sherman" <bsherman77 -at- embarqmail -dot- com>
When you have had 30 jobs to list, it has to be light, or it will be easily over 3 pages, meaning no one will read it.

Before you gasp at 30 jobs, to a contractor, this is well within reason. Six months here, three months there, and you see in 10 years you can easily have 10 to 20 jobs.

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