Subj : Re: Software Job Market Myths To : comp.programming,comp.software-eng From : rem642b Date : Mon Aug 15 2005 08:10 pm > From: Chris Hills > I have looked at your CV I don't have a CV (curriculum vitae), so what did you actually look at? http://jobsearch.about.com/cs/curriculumvitae/a/curriculumvitae.htm http://www.careers.ucr.edu/students/graduates/cvsample.html http://jobsearch.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eurograduate.com%2Fplan2.html http://www.quintcareers.com/curriculum_vitae.html http://www.careers.ucr.edu/Students/Graduates/CV/ > Your working life seems to miraculously start in 2002 ... No, my detailed list of things I've been **recently** goes back that far, in an attempt to fill the gap between my most recent complete resume and current time. Several times I've sent my resume to somebody who had posted a job ad, only to get back the response "this doesn't show what you've been doing recently", so now I'm keeping that data on a month-by-month basis whenever I happen to have time and notice there's a gap that needs filling. > It gives no idea of age, qualifications companies worked for etc. It's against the law for you to expect me to tell you my age in order to qualify for a job. I haven't worked for any company for many years, so obviously a description of what I've done **recently** wouldn't include anything so far in the past. If you want to know about when I worked for a company, you need to look at my resume. Did you see the toplevel pointer to my index of eleven resumes? http://members.tripod.com/~MaasInfo/SeekJob/Resumes.html#Topics Please tell me what you consider to be "qualifications" for employment. I normally think of languages/systems I'm competant with, major projects I've done, college degree, special awards, all of which are in my resumes. Please tell me what's missing, and what I should remove from a one-page resume to make room for what you want. > It gives no idea what your location is? Please look in any of my resumes and you'll see. By the way, do you live anywhere near London? I'm worried about a fellow who left town "for the weekend" after the London bombings and then just disappeared. Maybe you can see what happened to him? .