Updating The Résumé

[bjarvis]

I spent a chunk of last night working on updating my résumé... it's been seven years since I've last redrafted one and my old one was in bad need of an update.

I've absorbed much résumé advice over the years: some advice is solid ("craft it for the job you want, not the one you have") while some of it contradictory ("never exceed one page" vs. "you're not applying at McDonald's so 2-3 pages is fine"). At the moment, I'm still sifting through my activity reports of the past five years or so to distill a small list of good examples of project management, staffing coordination and management ability, but I hope to have a largely finished product by the end of the weekend.

Does anyone have any recommended web sites on résumé construction? I'm open to additional ideas on formatting and style.

Comments

[abqdan.livejournal.com]

I can tell you when I'm hiring technical people, I want a summary of their actual skills on the first page, then their most recent experience. I don't read more than a couple of pages thoroughly; and indeed, I generally don't bother if they haven't hit all the main points in the job description on the first page.

I'm much more interested in what they achieved (reduced downtime on mail server by 20%) than what they know (expert in blah blah). I rarely take much notice of industry-issued qualifications - particularly those from Microsoft! For the most part, experience and achievement is far more important than passing tests.