Subj : Re: How much should I charge for fixed-price software contract?
To   : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.lisp
From : Phlip
Date : Tue Aug 16 2005 07:24 am

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

> Let me check it right now:
>  http://members.tripod.com/~MaasInfo/SeekJob/Resume.98B.txt
> That's 60 lines of text. You're correct, it's too long too many lines.
> How many lines is the maximum for a resume?

For a newb resume, one page one page only only only one page.

For a senior, drop a book on them. But make _certain_ they need to read only 
the minum possible number of lines to make the pass-fail decision.

The Objective is where you pack into a few lines all the wisdom legitimately 
grown from "20 years experience developing medium-level tools and 
incorporating them into applications". After that, you have nothing to prove 
about general mentality.

Then, list the acronyms, and let folks skip to the jobs with those acronyms 
easily.

The decision "I refuse to work for anyone so stupid they only look at 
acronyms" is closely related to the decision "I refuse to learn an acronym 
and prepare my resume, so a hirer will know that I will hit the ground 
running once hired." I'd jog before a marathon, so I'd learn an acronym 
before getting the gig that asks for it.

Save up for and pay for .NET experience. (And GNU Mono counts.) The hirers 
are sick and tired of only getting kiddies who know .NET but don't know how 
to think to avoid debugging. They would be delighted to locate someone with 
long-term experience with big bad projects, _and_ with .NET.

Replace ".NET" in my paragraph with any other peesashit new wave 
vendor-lockin-oriented toolkit out there...

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

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