Subj : Demos/PhoneScreen/BuzzWords (was: How much should I charge for...) To : comp.programming From : rem642b Date : Fri Aug 26 2005 02:34 pm > From: amor...@xenon.Stanford.EDU (Alan Morgan) > >What would I need to say in my resume to convince you to look at my > >online demos to see that I wasn't making up the whole thing like half > >the other applicants who sent resumes? > Most interviewers won't care. It might be an extra attention getter, > but your resume will get the interview (and company contacts, etc), > not online demos. Suppose I flush all the URLs in my resume, but have them available via a single tinyurl somewhere else, and in the resume I merely mention that I have online demos of several of my small utilties available. That way an interested person might make a phone call or e-mail just to find out about the demos, while others wouldn't be bothered to see several lines of resume filled with the details? > Assuming someone thinks your resume is interesting enough to warrant > extra attention, they will determine if you are making things up by > a phone screen interview followed, presumably, by a more detailed > on-site interview. I haven't gotten a phone-screen in so many years I don't know whether I ever did, or whether the employer way back in 1993 just phoned me to schedule the in-person interview, without any phone-screen first. I've heard urgan legions of phone screens, but never heard of one actually occurring, so I don't know if they're real. > I would determine if we wanted to take a look at you by looking for > the appropriate buzzwords in the resume (sad, but true), Which buzzwords are missing from my big list: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.programming/msg/b03efa8010c874ac Message-ID: and would need to be adoined before you'd consider me? > looking at the range of projects you've worked on Whereas your junior staff member could be trusted to weed out all the resumes that don't have all your required buzzwords, who would be in charge of evaluating the range of projects described in the resume, the hired recruiting agency or headhunter, or somebody in the actual company looking for an employee? > and pondering the ineffable "it" that makes one resume stand out in a > batch of several hundred. Among the various things I've posted in various newsgroups in recent years, what if anything that I've said would be considered as a positive factor, if I were to somehow present the same in my resume? Did anything I said ever impress you as "I wish that guy had a decent resume so we could justify, to our higher-ups, hiring him"? Instead of hiring one person, out of the hundreds who applied for work at your company, fulltime, and leaving all the rest without a job, is there any chance your company could hire a large bunch of us for temporary jobs, each of us doing one single small task, such as writing or debugging or enhancing a mid-level utility, nothing too revealing about any company secrets, whereby you could see how we actually do real work instead of trying to guess from how we interview and then being stuck with whichever one you guessed would be best? .