Maybe someone here can help me.

I've never had to have a resume, the employers always came to me, I guess knowing the kind of work I did was enough.

I did Kinda make a resume once, it was pretty bad as you can well imagine from reading my writings.

I would like to make one, does anyone know of a service on-line that gives good instructions?

I don't need any help turning non-paying work into marketable skills on it, I need help defining what I did, do, can do, with all the technical babble.

I noticed what's his face's (c++ book writer) resume looked really good but when you looked at it closely, he had done a few things and it was written to look like he was God's gift to the World of computing.

I would like to gear the resume to that job I am looking at, highlight the areas I have experience in which they are asking for.

When it come down to doing something like this, trying to put into words what I want to get across, I am not very good at it.

I would kinda like to just make a list of everything and have some one take that info and turn it into a comprehensible form.

Any suggestions and/or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

-- Anonymous, September 03, 2001

Answers

Cherri, Word has a resume maker. It isn't the greatest, but it can give you some layout ideas. Newspaper employment sections often have resume advice from headhunters. Local libraries have books on resume creation, but check the print dates and try to find the most recent one.

-- Anonymous, September 03, 2001

Any suggestions and/or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Here is just an obvious one, Cherri: Under no circumstances should you mention your involvement in the Y2K hysteria. Believe me, it doesn't matter which "side" you were on, the fact is that you still fell hook, line and sinker for someone's scaremongering (in your case, Doc Paulie's), and whatever "accomplishments" you may think you have in this area will not be looked upon favorably by a canditate employer.

There are also different "styles" of resumes that are accepted by the personnel weenies, each with it's own pros and cons. For example, if you have gaps in you employment history, you may want to go for a style that does not emphasize the traditional chronological employment history approach.

Good luck!

-- Anonymous, September 04, 2001

Here is just an obvious one, Cherri: Under no circumstances should you mention your involvement in the Y2K hysteria. Believe me, it doesn't matter which "side" you were on, the fact is that you still fell hook, line and sinker for someone's scaremongering (in your case, Doc Paulie's), and whatever "accomplishments" you may think you have in this area will not be looked upon favorably by a canditate employer.

More evidence that this joker doesn't have a clue. My advice is don't take any advice from TK.

Cherri, have you tried any of the head-hunter sites like careerbuilder.com or monster.com? They have loads of resume tips.

-- Anonymous, September 04, 2001

Cherri,

What Buddy said. Some of these sites help you format the resume for online posting, then let you print a version to be distributed by snail mail.

-- Anonymous, September 04, 2001

Cherri--

I'm no expert but I think the conventional wisdom on resumes is to be brief. One page is best; edit, edit. Here is one of many resume sites. Good luck, it's not the greatest job market these days.

-- Anonymous, September 04, 2001

There was an article locally that P/T instructors for the Trade and Tech schools are still heavily in demand. Especially when something like "RF" gets hot out of the clear blue sky (no pun intended).

The big plus in teaching such courses is the "networking" and "consulting" you can pick up on the side when the students are placed or return to their jobs. AND a lot of the "schools" would sell their souls to get **working Pros** who can actually demo hands on not just write on a blackboard off notes out of a text.

This is especially true in either "state of the art" areas or "arcane" specialties. And "Hardware things". Software has been hot for so long there is no lack of teachers. BUT, how many people can actually build the devices and make them work from scratch? Most Engineering grads couldn't "Bread Board" if their lives depended on it beyond a few simple labs in "electronics".

One of those "arcane" things, that was very, very hot last winter was RF Engineering and Techs. At one job fair web site data base at least 3/4s of the posts were for "RF experience" or similar phrasing.

I thought that was rather strange so I did some checking. It turned out that a lot of the working RF Engineers had moved on to other EE areas as did the techs when the Military cutbacks hit. (It was certainly true in Mass. and on L.I. from about 1980 on). That plus lack of training of replacement people lead to the shortages last Winter.

I thought of that this very AM when I got this in a Push Letter. Everyone should know about 802.11 and 802.11b and its variants. Now comes 802.16

In essence, IEEE 802.16 standardizes the air interface and related functions associated with WLL. Three working groups have been chartered to produce standards:

* IEEE 802.16.1 - Air interface for 10 to 66 GHz.

* IEEE 802.16.2 - Coexistence of broadband wireless access systems.

* IEEE 802.16.3 - Air interface for licensed frequencies, 2 to 11 GHz.

If you want to track the progress of the standard, check out the IEEE 802.16 Web site

(http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/16/index.html).

For more on this story see: http://www.nwfusion.com/news/tech/2001/0903tech.html

-- Anonymous, September 04, 2001

I had found that no one was interested in my area of expertise for a decade or so, there was the IT glut where recent college graduates were handed a blank check just to get them to sign on. It confused me because their field wasn't that difficult, yet no one wanted experienced hardware technical people. I think it had to do with the fact that those who knew nothing assumed IT's could do everything. Suddenly society thought IT's had the ability to do magical things mere mortals were incapable of doing. Kinda like the way doomers assumed certain things, businesses assumed there was more to the abilities of IT's than actually existed, it's like they thought a they could walk out of college and do anything. Like I said before, some are nothing more than glorified data processors. What is unfair is the fact that there are experienced IT's, those who have years of experience, who know what needs to be done, who have the ability to do the jobs, and they were/are put in a position under these inexperienced newly graduated "experts".

Anywho, in the past two years or so I have found that people with my abilities and experience are suddenly in demand. The kind of things I do/have done are rare in this day and age, it takes a long time to learn, and even longer time to work up to the level of experience needed. Not too many young people are interested in putting in the work and time it takes to get here.

Now all I have to do is try to become physically able to do my kind of work. Here's hoping it goes well.

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2001