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Re: How much knowledge to advertise and how to advertise it?
Subject:Re: How much knowledge to advertise and how to advertise it? From:Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Sat, 18 Jun 2005 10:52:25 -0400
> Just out of curiosity: I'd guess your resume is quite long?
Two pages.
> As a manager, would you say that adding that information to all the
> software you know would be helpful at the stage when you're sending out
> your resume?
No, I don't recommend you do this for all the software you know. I
might have been unclear in my previous post, but I strongly advocate
the use of custom resumes, and I intended to suggest listing the
common applications (like Office apps and relevant authoring tools)
and then specifically the technologies the company is looking for.
> Or are you thinking in general terms? I feel like I'm pushing the
> envelope a bit by having a 2 page resume.
A 2-page resume is normal.
I don't know if I can constitute this as a trend, but among all the
managers I know, length of a resume is only an issue if it's a page or
less or longer than, say, 5 or so pages.
This is an employer's market. We like to know as much about candidates
as is appropriate and manageable, because in an ideal situation we'll
have 6-10 amazing candidates to bring in for an interview. It would be
most unfortunate to overlook a perfect candidate because the resume
was trimmed too short to give us any real picture of the person, or
too long and full of extra info we don't need.
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