Subj : Re: programming job market in bay area in US
To   : comp.programming
From : Phlip
Date : Fri Jul 29 2005 04:59 pm

Please read the whole thing before responding.

Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t wrote:

> Have you looked at any of my dozen-plus resumes yet?
>   http://members.tripod.com/~MaasInfo/SeekJob/Resumes.html

For the love of [pick a deity], could you...

 - put a cheerful note about the _best_ resume at the top?

 - set the background color so I don't see gloomy Win32
   default grey?

 - clean up the HTML so I don't see these huge gaps?

 - rebuild the content with an outline and internal hyperlinks?

 - take out the irrelevant parodies of resumes?

The current format's esthetics reveal how much you loath writing resumes,
and you want to show off each one like a scar!

Okay, now I want your _best_ resume, so I click on http://tinyurl.com/uh3t

Instead of seeing a resume, or a light generic cover letter with a link - at
the top - to a resume, I get a maze of hyperlinks.

The page from "Platforms/usageModes" is then a piece of a resume. I can't
just see one in the standard format. And the piece has no format - it's a
glob of text.

I am aware senior resumes have a unique problem with volume. We all want to
say more than any given reader wants to read, and if they get bored we get
tossed.

My resume fixes this problem with DHTML. The two biggest populations of
resume readers are HR who want acronyms, and hiring managers who want the
details. So the top of my resume is an acronym bingo:

    http://flea.sourceforge.net/resume.html

If you click on any acronym, the resume navigates automatically to the
freshes exposure to that acronym, and highlights it with a cheerful green
color.

Next, I set the background color to warm parchment. This complements the
cool blue of unclicked links and the warm blue of clicked ones.

Next, I did not set the font. All the text and nearly all the formatting is
default HTML. If you have a weird default font, my resume reflects _your_
preference.

Next, the resume is scannable. The short and long Objectives are on top, and
the acronym bingo is above the fold. If you scan down the right column, you
see the resume's outline with the titles of gigs. and their years.

Next, if you click on an acronym or scan to a title, you can then read a
brief writeup. From here, if I wanted to get even more technocratic, I could
use more DHTML to provide a "More..." button on each gig, and it would
expand into the list of projects at that gig.

I think I'l do that right now!

Robert, the hiring decision is emotional _first_, technology _last_. You
need to forgive hirers too stupid to recognize your technological talents,
and you need to erase every speck of your online presence that does not reek
of pure CHEERFULNESS!

Don't bludgeon yourself with the false piety of chronic honesty. It's okay
to cheat!

-- 
  Phlip
  http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?ZeekLand

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