That's a little too short. What you put?

haha. that's true. i demanded salary that's too long. took half da page to enter '0' alone. other than that, nth else! that's y 1/2 pg. hahaha.

on serious note, i make sure i have 2 full page. 1/2 pg for personal details. the rest xp and academic.

i cramped all into 2 page and i think it was good.

no need put all your subjects and grades into the resume. just attach your transcript.

maybe you want to highlight your skills in brief such as:
. Operating Systems: Windows XP/2000, Basic UNIX and Linux
. Programming Languages: C++, C#, Java, Visual Basic 6, PHP, XHTML, PERL, OpenGL
. Software: Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Macromedia Flash, Dreamweaver, Oracle 9i, MySQL
. General skills: Networking, Computer Hardware Assembly and Troubleshooting

wow, great IT related skills you have there.

if i would wana highlight my skills...can i elaborate the technical part??

eh, yes, but do it in point form..

Things to be put on your resume are usually in the point form. Nobody is going to compose his/her in the style of bragging, grandmother story. Make it short, straight to the point and informative.

hmm. just wanna know still got how many really do write resume and email it? or jobstreet, jobsdb, etc took over the job of preparing the resume already...

I did write mine and send it to the relevant channel.

errr...take a look of this:

OS: windosXP/2000
Programming skills: c++
software: microsoft office, macromedia flash
general skills: networking, Computer Hardware Assembly and Troubleshooting

if i want to apply for technician in IT field. these kind of "skills" got company hire me or not? result also not so good, second class. im a fresh graduate. english cant speak fluently. ^^ very worst huh?!

Besides just academic and experience items, you can always put in your interests and your own personal values (integrity, professionalism, open minded, ready for change, etc..etc..). There is nothing wrong with that and it also allow the company you are applying to see a little bit of who you are besides in just an academic viewpoint.

i would say u may be up to the task.

but so does anyone with IT cert!

How to write the "Your text resume" in the jobstreet.com there? can give some idea? Others are fill in the blank but the part "your text resume"...i dono what need to write..??!!
Can anyone help me?? pls....thanks..

It is pretty much the same as writing your normal resume. Put in your qualifications there, other learning experiences and work experiences. Since most of your qualifications are on another page, you can take this opportunity to write more about yourself there.

Usually people will prepare a text resume first in a Word document format. Then, with this prepared resume, you can extract information into those sites like Jobstreet, Shell and others which request the similar from their web based resume submission.

This post has been edited by David83: Apr 18 2006, 04:29 PM

very true... anyone want to write resume???hehe... no offence...

Are you offerring resume writing service?

what's the charges? do u reuse the the resume format? is cover letter included?

just click on the website below.

by: Judi Perkins



1. A BLAND OR GENERIC OBJECTIVE: If your objective could be applied to a marketing resume as easily as a resume for an accounting position, then your objective says nothing and will get you nowhere. An objective is NOT some required paragraph at the top of the page that is an exercise in 5 lines of job speak. It's an actual and real description of your skills as they're related to who you are and what you want. It should vary with the type of job for which you are applying.

2. BLAND JOB DETAILS: "Responsibilities included overseeing construction of 4 Hilton Hotels in Tri-City Metro Area, each 50 floors in height." Yeah? So what? That doesn't say if they went up on schedule or if you brought the projects in under budget. It doesn't say if you took all four from site work up or if the guy handling two of the four hotels was fired and you were promoted to overseeing all four. Differentiate yourself from the others coming in to interview. If you don't tell the hiring company how you will be an asset to them, how will they know?

3. WHO'S THE MYSTERY COMPANY?: Don't assume the name and purpose of your company is common knowledge. If it's a competitor, it might be, and if it's in the same industry and located nearby, it might be. To be on the safe side, provide a sentence or two about the focus of your company's products or services.

4. ANOTHER JOB, ANOTHER PARAGRAPH: Don't keep adding on to your resume job after job, year after year. By the time you're in your 40s, you need to have weeded out some of the earlier stuff. You don't need all the college activities, just your degree. You don't need ALL 5 bullets for each of your first two jobs.

5. REFERENCES: Shouldn't be listed on your resume. "References available on request" is the proper phrase. You present them separately when they're requested. This isn't about protocol. This is about protecting your references so they aren't called until you and the company are serious about each other.

6. IT'S NOT A STORY!: Don't - whatever you do, DON'T - write your resume in the third person!

7. SKIP THE PERSONAL INFO: You might think your weekend baseball coaching or your church choir participation shows you're an interesting and well-rounded person, but they're irrelevant. If the interviewer wants to know who you are as a person, aside from the job interview and your qualifications, he'll ask.

8. DEGREE DATE: No matter how old you are, don't leave the date of when you were graduated off your resume. It looks like you're hiding something (well, you are, aren't you?), and then everyone counts the years backwards and tries to figure out how old you are. Sometimes you can be ruled out - just for leaving the date off. If you're trying to hide your age by not stating the date, what else might you not be forthcoming about?

9. SPELL CHECK, SPELL CHECK, SPELL CHECK: Spell checking visually by you AND someone else, any fewer than three times, isn't enough. And don't forget to check your punctuation.

10. GETTING YOUR RESUME OUT THERE - part one: Don't use one of those resume blaster things. Half of those sites they blast it to aren't even valid. You don't know how it will come out on the other end. You don't even know where it's going or if the landing targets are employment related. It's bad form and just....NOT the way to find your perfect job. Finding your perfect job takes focus, attention, detail, individuality, tailoring, specifics. Resume blasting is about as far from that as you can get.

11. GETTING YOUR RESUME OUT THERE - part two: If it's an ad, you probably have instructions as to how to send it. If it says email, cut and paste it in the form, AND attach it. You never know what it can look like on the other end because of the variety of settings available to each user. Quite frankly, you're better off not emailing it at all, because it usually just goes into cyber space, and then it's all about the hiring company - but unfortunately, besides not sending it at all, sometimes that's your only choice. Emailing your resume takes any option for further participation right out of your hands, because often there's not even a name given for a follow up contact. You've no other option than to wait and wonder. (And half the time it's going to HR or an admin department to be scanned into an electronic database.)

12. GETTING YOUR RESUME OUT THERE - part three: If you know the company, call and ask if they prefer email, fax, or snail mail. I know a recruiter who never even opened his email. Because he was listed in The Kennedy Guide to Executive Recruiters, he received so many resumes emailed to him cold (so NOT pro-active) that he just did a mass delete every morning. Candidates contacted for a specific search were requested to snail mail their resume to him. How about that? I'll bet less than 10% of those who emailed their resumes even bothered to follow up to see if it was received (this isn't a numbers game).

13. RESUME VISUALS: Ivory paper. Black ink. Individual pages. No plastic, 7th grade, science report cover with the plastic slider or metal push down tabs. Your name centered at the top, not on a cover page that says "Introducing Clifton Lewis Montgomery III". No exceptions. Your resume is a professional document, not a school book report or an art project. Until every resume is done this way, yours will still stand out in the crowd.

You are the product, and your resume is the marketing piece. To find your perfect job you must differentiate yourself from the other people who will be interviewed.

Your resume must be specific, individualized, easy to skim so it invites a closer reading, and focused on the differences you've made with your previous companies, as well as the accomplishments you've achieved with - and for - them. This tells the hiring company what you can do for them - and it IS about the hiring company, not you.

Of course this assumes you meet the requirements for the job - otherwise it doesn't matter how good your resume is! The resume is what gets you in the door. If your resume is poorly written, looks sloppy, is difficult to read, is cryptic in any way, or necessitates being slogged through to learn your information (they won't bother), you won't even get in the door.

And how can you decide whether you like the company, if they've already decided they don't like you?

copyright: Judi Perkins, VisionQuest
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SUMMARY:
Submitting your resume isn't about sweating out an all-purpose document in job speak. Nor is it about submitting it to every place you can find - especially on a "what the heck" basis. Your resume is your personal marketing piece. It's what gets you in the door. If you want the interview, make sure your resume isn't representative of any of these 13 errors.
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PROFILE:
Judi Perkins is a contributing career writer for JamminJobs.com, a national online job board and has been a search consultant for 25 years in both the contingency and retained market, with a short stint in the temporary and local permanent placement markets. She has owned her own firm and successfully assisted numerous repeat clients in hiring all levels of management. She is a Career Expert and Forum Moderator with www.CareerCube.net. To sign up for her newsletter or learn thousands of powerful concepts to find your perfect job go to www.findtheperfectjob.com.


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Moderator: Thread merged with existing pinned thread about resume.

This post has been edited by LaR_c: May 4 2006, 10:05 PM