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Subject:Re: Another Resume Question From:kcronin -at- daleen -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 20 Jan 2003 12:15:13 -0700
Debbie wrote:
> My question is: should I list all of the companies that I have done work
> for while with SWS as sublistings or just list all of the projects I have
> done without mentioning company names? I have not been listing all of the
> companies and am begining to wonder if this is doing me more harm than
> good.
I would think you should list them, along with summaries of key projects,
something like this:
1997 - Present:
Tech writer for SWS, a blah-blah-blah company that provides blah-blah-blah
to local companies in the blah-blah-blah industry. Fulfilled individual
assignments ranging from one day to four months at the following firms:
* Company_One - created a 200-page manual for improving widgets' self
esteem, using RoboWidget and FrameWoozler.
* Company_Two - developed online help system for a software product
designed to calculate the frequency of teenage usage of word such as
"like" and "you know."
* Company_Three - you get the idea...
This accomplishes a few things - it shows you have worked in more than one
environment, illustrates your versatility and underestanding of this
stuff, and might have some good name-dropping potential, if any of those
companies are well-known. If you think it might help, you might also
include how long you were with certain companies, but that could work
against you, too, if there are too many 1-day gigs. Good luck.
Keith Cronin
George Martin was considered the fifth Beatle, so I guess I'm like, the
seventh Archie.
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