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Donald Ray wrote:
>>One's resume should only address the past ten years. Given the speed
>>at which technology is evolving, very little of one's talents from ten
>>years ago would be useful today.
Lynn Gold replied:
>I got the job before my current job partly because of experience
>I had from over ten years ago as a networking programmer and an ARPAnet
>system administrator.
Thursday I was offered a nice contract for a really interesting project.
Since I had heard that they'd been turning down good writers left and
right, I did a little digging to find out why they picked me. Turned out
the main reason was because of technical R&D work I did over 20 years ago.
Dumb luck, because I'd chopped all that old stuff off of my resume' to get
it down to 2 pages <grin>. Fortunately, the interview team pushed real
hard for specific details of my technical background (they were trying to
discourage me because they thought they needed an engineer). Someone
recognized the name of the company/department where I'd worked as a lab
technician and then as a chemist in the early 1970s.
Today, I'm revising my resume' again, and putting all that stuff back in.
Well, not -all- the gory details, but at least a list of companies and
subject fields.
Kat Nagel, MasterWork Consulting Services katnagel -at- eznet -dot- net
Technical writing / Editing / Document Design / Web site planning
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