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Subject:Re: skill level & what to include on resume From:"Brierley, Sean" <Brierley -at- QUODATA -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 6 May 1999 09:58:17 -0400
Hallo:
Take a Windoze class somewhere, like CompUSA. Spend 20 or 30 hours building
your own personal web site using the free space Earthlink provides. After
this, you'll be an intermediate user, right?
Anyway, include the Windows and HTML experience on your resume and be
prepared to discuss exactly, and honestly, what that experience is. Unless,
of course, you find you are still struggling with Windows and/or HTML, in
which case see paragraph 1 <g>.
As for the Word experience, just list the experience with the app and don't
tie it to a particular platform. If you are proficient with the program on
Mac, you will be in Windows, too (expect more speed and more crashes <vbg>).
All the best.
Sean
sean -at- quodata -dot- com
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Gail S. Bernstein, Ph.D. [mailto:drgsb -at- EARTHLINK -dot- NET]
>>>Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 6:16 PM
>>>To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>>>Subject: skill level & what to include on resume
>>>
>>>
>>>Greetings,
>>>
>>>I'm a writer and psychologist and am about to start looking for
>>>my first technical writing contract. This list and the
>>>archives have been
>>>extremely helpful, but I have a question for which I've yet
>>>to find an
>>>answer. Here 'tis:
>>>
>>>What skill level should I have with an operating system or
>>>software program
>>>before I include it on my resume? I'm a long-time Mac user
>>>(7.5) and have
>>>been using Word 5.0 for Macs. I've just started using
>>>Windows 98 and Word
>>>for Windows, and I'm just beginning to learn HTML.
>>>
>>>Thanks very much for your help.
>>>
>>>Gail
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