Detailed Resumes?

[Dan BRINEGAR <vr2link -at- VR2LINK -dot- COM>]

Here's something new to me, and I'm not sure if anyone's ever had to go
through it before, or if I'm missing some particularly crucial point (or if
I'm getting buffaloed).

Now I've spent years "perfecting" the short, punchy, bulleted sentences
that describe in 15-words-or-less what I've done at each job I list on my
resume... the actual chronological resume the clients see is one page....
and lotsa white space. The second page(for the agency)  is a bulleted list
of keywords covering every task, skill, or concept I've got documentary
evidence to show I've done (like a diploma from the Army Signal Center,
InfoMappingCert, etc., etc.) -- the stuff that waits patiently in my
portfolio for an interview...

In the last month or so, I've had several agencies send me forms to fill
out that demand excruciating detail on everything-I've-ever-done... BEFORE
I get submitted to the client....

This stuff is running 2400 to 5000 WORDS!!!!!!! (Yeah, like one of my
Techwhirlings! But these things aren't much fun, for me, anyway). I've been
working since 10 pm on one (it's 7:30 am now) and by-golly I'm all the way
back to January of 1994.... (yes, I'm a short-term-contractor, and I *like*
it)

I thought this junk is what the portfolio and interviews are for...

Are the agencies so worried that they're gonna spend two hours locating and
presenting candidates; and if they haven't covered
everything-they-can-think-of, the clients are gonna blow 'em off? I realise
it's hard to cover a long career in a phone interview, especially if the
recruiter isn't a tech, but good grief!

These are jobs I want, and agencies I've respected in the past, but I dunno....
I finally get done with the  "Aitcheteeyemell? How do you spell that, is it
a Microsoft product?" agencies, and now this....

Oh, what the heck, now that I've got it all written down, I might as well
build hyperlinks from my PDF resume and put the whole thing on my website
and start using the World-Famous Buck Buchanan  Freelancing Method (tm).

Am I missing something, friends?
Agency folks?
Been-there-done-thatters?

(No, I don't think a union card will change anything...) <smile>

Thanks, all...

dan'l

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Dan Brinegar   Information Developer/Research Droid/Mac Guy
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