Re: Lengthy Resumes
I have had a lot of short term contracts where the experience and<snip>
exposure I gained are too valuable to leave out.
How do the veteran contractors condense their resume without shutting
themselves out of a position because that key piece of experience was
removed from their resume (besides tailoring each resume to a job?)
It may come to a new resume for each job, but maybe this will help. I've
also got a lot of my experience in bits and pieces in short-term contracts.
What I've finally done on my resume is to have bullet lists of
accomplishments on the first page, grouped by category, as in:
- TRAINING
Developed student guide and teacher's manual for XX software, XX Corp.
Taught 2-day class in YY software, YY Training Group
- TECHNICAL WRITING
etc.
Then on page two I list the companies in chronological order, hoping that
most of the recruiters will pretty much make their decisions based on page
one, because my employment record is a tangled mess of simultaneous
short-term contracts.
This is a recent resume redesign, so I can't say how "street-worthy" it is,
but maybe it would work for you.
Nea Dodson
as usual, speaking only for myself and not my company
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