Subj : Re: Software Job Market Myths To : comp.software-eng,comp.programming From : David Date : Wed Aug 17 2005 01:44 am On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:36:01 UTC, dj3vande@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Dave Vandervies) wrote: > In article , > David Alex Lamb wrote: > >In article , > >Phlip wrote: > >>And I repeat my objections. Your tinyurl does not point to a single, clear, > >>one-sheet, resume in the normal format. It points to very poor use of HTML. > > > >Can you point me at some definition for the "normal format"? > > I'm not currently looking for work and don't expect to be real soon, > but all this talk about resumes has gotten me curious. > > For those of you who aren't sick of the discussion already, what do you > think of mine? Good? Bad? Good/bad enough to be used as an example? > http://www.eskimo.com/~dj3vande/resume/ > > (This is mostly the one that got me my current job, updated with > nontrivial content changes but no significant change in format made about > a year and a half ago while my department was trying to put together a > cluestick big enough to convice upper management that they Really Did > want to keep me.) Hi Dave, Short and sweet. I do something similar with a bit more detail. I gave up a couple years ago and created a version in Word for the silly headhunters that kept arguing that they needed a copy in Word format and couldn't figure out how to import the text or HTML versions. Many years ago I had two resumes. One about two pages and one with the details that was about eight pages. I don't usually give out the long one. It is for me to use when I have to recall all the various dates and information pertinent to each little project and employer. I'll be nice and not add my resume to the list. Have fun everyone, David .