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| RoGeorge:
Follow the advice from Cerebus. The employer is looking to hire a person not a professional resume. That person must show the potential to do the job. Since this is your first job, your hobby and you character is what defines you out of other hundreds of applicants with the same age and education. The fact that you are building since you were in high school is your strongest advantage. The fact that you have your own workbench makes people think that you really are a technical guy. The last two qualities are rare and highly appreciated in EE and CE. You should definitely mention them. If a cover letter is OK were you apply, then you can tell about a few projects you completed. Don't forget to talk about your current project/s. If you have a blog/channel or some other kind of repository for your work and projects, then you must put links to them. If you have any kind of publications, academic or hobby level, mention them. Be yourself, show what kind of person you are, but stick mostly to what might be relevant for the future job. Of course, you need to adjust the content and the level of details according to the job description and the company you intend to work for. Do not limit your application only for jobs that you think it might be the ideal ones. Do not disqualify yourself. Apply for as many decent matches as you can find, because each interview will be a big experience gain for you. Go to as many as you can. |
| tggzzz:
A key concept is that the CV should indicate you can demonstrate (during an interview) what you claim based on your past activities. Thus while everybody writes and ignores "am a team player that also works on my own", a statement such as "solo glider pilot, launch duties team member getting aircraft in the air" demonstrates you have the drive to achieve something non-trivial, what you have achieved on your own, and how you helped other people achieve things. An employer will be looking for any evidence that someone actually likes the subject sufficiently that you go off and do things on your own, just for the fun of it. Let them understand that you have set your own objectives, done the work, recognised your mistakes and know what you would do better next time. Having done that will put you in the most competent 5% of new graduates. Interviewers also like having something they can ask questions about, beyond their standard competency questions. "experience with X", "developed a Y" = you did work and served your time. Boring. Better is Technologies used: * hardware: X1, X2, X3 * software: Y1, Y2, Y3 * CAD: Z1, Z2, Z3(Which allows HR droids to skim your CV to see you aren't completely irrelevant; passes automated filters) Projects: * developed an M for objective N, special characteristics P, using Z1 to ensure characteristic Q, implemented using Y2 and X1, proved by R and X3(Which allows competent interviewer to understand you aren't a bullshit artist, and to get you to justify why P was beneficial, and to what extent Z1 could and could not ensure Q) Note that anything vaguely relevant can be used for those statements. |
| Cerebus:
--- Quote from: Bud on October 23, 2016, 06:38:29 am ---No employer is interested in learning what hobbies you have or what musical instrument you play. If you want to nail it, consider getting help from professional resume writing service. They know the market and your local employment culture. This will be money well spent. Some of headgunting companies help their customers with this for free. Edit: it is often easier to build you resume when applying for a particular posted job, in which case you simply use the job description/responsibilities listed and just put the relevant information in the resume. Guaranteed, the employer will be looking for best match to the posted job description, so this helps. Try to only answer questions the employer asked in the job post (figuratevely) and this will give you an edge over those who fills their resume with useless fluff about how good they are in areas irrelevant to the job they are applying for. --- End quote --- I'm guessing that you personally haven't had, as an employer, to sit and wade your way through a few hundred Resumes/CVs. I have, and most 'professionally prepared' CVs are so bad that you beg for any information that can give you a glimpse at the person behind the CV. I can categorically state that I, as an employer, have been interested in what hobbies and pastimes an applicant has. Also, you might think one gets a bespoke service from 'professional' resume writers. You don't. When there are 10-20 resumes prepared by the same service in a batch of 200 applications it quickly becomes clear which resumes were written by individuals and which by not just some, but which, service bureaux - the one from services bureaux tend to head for the big round filling bin faster than the others. |
| tggzzz:
--- Quote from: Cerebus on October 23, 2016, 05:47:40 pm --- --- Quote from: Bud on October 23, 2016, 06:38:29 am ---No employer is interested in learning what hobbies you have or what musical instrument you play. If you want to nail it, consider getting help from professional resume writing service. They know the market and your local employment culture. This will be money well spent. Some of headgunting companies help their customers with this for free. Edit: it is often easier to build you resume when applying for a particular posted job, in which case you simply use the job description/responsibilities listed and just put the relevant information in the resume. Guaranteed, the employer will be looking for best match to the posted job description, so this helps. Try to only answer questions the employer asked in the job post (figuratevely) and this will give you an edge over those who fills their resume with useless fluff about how good they are in areas irrelevant to the job they are applying for. --- End quote --- I'm guessing that you personally haven't had, as an employer, to sit and wade your way through a few hundred Resumes/CVs. I have, and most 'professionally prepared' CVs are so bad that you beg for any information that can give you a glimpse at the person behind the CV. I can categorically state that I, as an employer, have been interested in what hobbies and pastimes an applicant has. Also, you might think one gets a bespoke service from 'professional' resume writers. You don't. When there are 10-20 resumes prepared by the same service in a batch of 200 applications it quickly becomes clear which resumes were written by individuals and which by not just some, but which, service bureaux - the one from services bureaux tend to head for the big round filling bin faster than the others. --- End quote --- l agree wholeheartedly with that. One consideration is that HRdroids are mostly pretty poor, and are there to prevent employees, especially bosses, from making mistakes. Thus they will tend to weed out people that are "interesting" - which leaves the safe boring average bodies. Engineers have to keep such droids under control, and actively ensure they don't filter out the really good candidates. |
| Fred27:
--- Quote from: Bud on October 23, 2016, 06:38:29 am ---No employer is interested in learning what hobbies you have or what musical instrument you play. --- End quote --- I disagree. I've interviewed and hired a lot of people and if there's nothing on there that says something about the person outside just their technical qualifications, I always ask. I want to know what sort of person I'm hiring, not just a robot. I don't care if it's something I find interesting or not. I just want to hire a person who cares about something just for the joy of it. Sidenote: I drew the line at a guy who had a hobby of buying women's shoes and documenting the destructive testing of them. Apparently, he'd destroy them with hammers, angle grinders, blowtorches, etc. Also, why would you admit that at a job interview? :palm: |
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