Subj : Re: Resume questions, how convey? (was: How much should I charge fo...)
To   : comp.programming
From : Duane Bozarth
Date : Thu Aug 25 2005 10:56 pm

Duane Bozarth wrote:
> 
> "Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t" wrote:
> >
> > > From: Tim X <t...@spamto.devnul.com>
.....
> > > > - Among top five (in whole United States) in William Lowell Putnam
> > > > undergraduate mathematics competition
> > > Shorten the first one.
> >
> > How?
> 
> Drop the puffery portion and unnecessary parenthetical phrase.
> Something like
> 
> HONORS AND AWARDS
> 
>  - Top five William Lowell Putnam mathematics competition for
> undergraduates
....

After a little research, I'd recast it as follows--

> HONORS AND AWARDS
> 
>  - Fellow, William Lowell Putnam mathematics competition (1966)

That <IS> a hell of an achievement Robert--it reinforces my thinking you
really ought to be looking at something that makes more direct use of
your abilities.

Places who do serious simulation and numerical methods, perhaps if you
really want to be involved on the computer end of things?

.