Subj : Re: Software Job Market Myths
To   : comp.programming,comp.software-eng
From : Phlip
Date : Tue Aug 16 2005 02:16 am

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

>> Your tinyurl does not point to a single, clear, one-sheet, resume in
>> the normal format.
>
> Why should I do a dumb thing like that?

Uh, to get hired?

Comparing resumes again, I have the generic stuff at the top, specifics down 
below or hidden. You seem to have a maze.

> I have experience a lot of different areas.

Me too.

> I have special resumes in each area where I have a lot
> of experience

Hence, my resume adapts to the reader. Those curious about testing may see 
it in action doing games, computer science, and linguistics. Those curious 
about linguistics may see me skinning applications, testing machine 
translation, etc.

> plus several attempts at a general resume for only jobs
> in areas where I don't have a lot of specific experience.

Note: When you say "attempts at", you are saying a variation on "try", which 
is a very sad word that engineers should try to avoid. Don't say, "I will 
_try_ to lift my X-wing fighter out of your swamp with telekinesis alone". 
That is why you fail.

Say, "I will do it."

> Do you really
> believe that one size fits all, that I should shoehorn all jobs into a
> single resume? If so, which of the nearly dozen different resumes is
> the one size that you believe fits all?

No, I believe in not pissing headhunters off at the first link. That's a 
very wide envelop; you may fill it how you like. It's not one-size-fits-all 
because it's not a very small envelop. There are room for many inside.

When I have a job lead that needs me to push up some topic, I read the One 
True resume, and make sure that path is obvious and accessible. I have 
multiple paths through my resume, _not_ multiple paths _to_ multiple 
resumes.

>> It points to very poor use of HTML.
>
> In what respect? Fails HTML transitional validation? Has mismatched
> starting and ending tags that break browsers? Declares itself USASCII
> but actually contains some non-ASCII characters? Has many misspellings
> and grammatical errors? What?

At first glance, I don't care about any syntactical thing (and I know my 
browser does not either). Hirers care about esthetics and formatting. There 
are common ways that simple HTML makes pages beautiful. Your obstinance to 
push perfectly well-formed HTML in the opposite direction is confounding.

> I've started dismantling the WAP structure, to replace with a
> full-screen structure with different emphasis. This is a good time for
> you to offer constructive feedback, but a bad time for you to simply
> knock the old pages that are already en route to dismantling.

No prob. I still have no idea what the WAP was supposed to be for.

Now you know where to head too. Any luck paying $75 at the most for a dead 
pentium and a Linux distro CD, so you can use a GUI Desktop and catch up 
with the rest of us?

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  Phlip
  http://www.greencheese.org/ZeekLand  <-- NOT a blog!!!

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