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[Babbles]

Originally posted by: flavio

Originally posted by: adlep

Everything's too jumbled together, I bet most employers won't even look at it. You need to put dividers, space it out

Can't do that really. If I will then I would have to take something out. The last thing I want to have is a two page resume...
But what to take out?

I've heard from hiring managers that the one-page resume is a bunch of crap. If you have the experience put it on there and don't make it look like crap squishing it together.

My underestanding is for most jobs and careers you want one page. However, some fields it is accepted and even expected to have a much longer resume. For instance I work as a chemist and in the science field (real science, not your computer science stuff ) with your work experience and/or college research, instrumentations, R&D, quantitative analysis, published stuff - you can get a pretty hefty resume. I have heard about post docs have a 20 page resume. Usually, though, they are no longer really called resumes at that point and are referred to as a vitae.

Since you are a recent grad and are just entering the workplace, if you have more than one page - to me at least - that just says you are trying to find stuff to squeeze in to make it longer.

 

[alkemyst]

I have a lot of experience in really two careers, banking and computers. The jobs I look for are usually something I can combine both. My resume is two pages, however, it is all relevant and not just filler.

Most of the information I see about 1 page resumes has an exclusion for the highly technical fields where longer lists of skillsets may be necessary.

If you are a fresh out of school candidate you should only have a 1 page resume, it's easy to list all these things you have done/know, but without real job experience you are placed into the same category as about 99 out of 100 applicants that list every possible thing under the sun, but have no proof for it.

If you have a cert, list it. If you have had a relevant job, list it. If you are just out of school, list your GPA otherwise it's not needed, and even then unless from a top-notch school or extremely high may draw more criticism than help.

Things I have seen on resumes that become cliche "Web Designer/Programmer/Developer: developed own personal webpage complete with guest book, graphics, scrolling and customized text. Listed on most search engines" (almost everyone has a webpage nowadays and seeing this I picture AOL page builder....if it is really good include the URL...I do pretty good design stuff, it was a profession of mine, but everytime I look at my resume I picture all this Yahoo and AOL sites and the owners claiming they are Developers

), "Programmer: several years of BASIC programming experience" (this is funny most often older people who think typing in magazine programs in the 80's gave them programming knowledge, regardless unless Visual preceeds it...it's laughed at), "PC Tech: built own computer using bleeding edge parts (including but not limited to Burner and Hi-GHz Harddrive) and troubleshooted all problems without technical support assistance. Built identical PC for best friend who thinks its the best" (a CPU is not a hard drive, yet people call it that....many times the layman calls ordering parts that are shipped preassembled building a PC), "Internet: Know surfing guidelines and never SPAM" (I have been trying to find the surfing guidelines since I saw this )...lots of bizarre stuff, the best is when they list like two pages of PC skills that all relate to each other and then have two jobs in food service as experience.

 

[Yossarian]

Originally posted by: alkemyst
Things I have seen on resumes that become cliche "Web Designer/Programmer/Developer: developed own personal webpage complete with guest book, graphics, scrolling and customized text. Listed on most search engines" (almost everyone has a webpage nowadays and seeing this I picture AOL page builder....if it is really good include the URL...I do pretty good design stuff, it was a profession of mine, but everytime I look at my resume I picture all this Yahoo and AOL sites and the owners claiming they are Developers

), "Programmer: several years of BASIC programming experience" (this is funny most often older people who think typing in magazine programs in the 80's gave them programming knowledge, regardless unless Visual preceeds it...it's laughed at), "PC Tech: built own computer using bleeding edge parts (including but not limited to Burner and Hi-GHz Harddrive) and troubleshooted all problems without technical support assistance. Built identical PC for best friend who thinks its the best" (a CPU is not a hard drive, yet people call it that....many times the layman calls ordering parts that are shipped preassembled building a PC), "Internet: Know surfing guidelines and never SPAM" (I have been trying to find the surfing guidelines since I saw this )...lots of bizarre stuff, the best is when they list like two pages of PC skills that all relate to each other and then have two jobs in food service as experience.

omg these are hilarious Hi-GHz harddrive, lol.

p.s. Family Computing magazine programs pwn j00!!!1!!111!

 

[josphII]

your skillz section is out of control

 

[samurai20]

Objective needs to be more specific according to what position you want and at what company.

Don't go with the double column, looks terrible, don't put what you focused on in your education, nobody cares.

Move your skills portion below experience. Experience is more important.

Your skills are too general. Anybody could put those things you have listed in the first column.

If your resume isn't long enough, list some of the more important classes you took below and what you learned in them.

Make those fixes and it should look a lot better.