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Would you please critique my resume?w

Turkish

Turkish

Lifer
I am hoping to get a web/online marketing job and revised my resume recently. I would appreciate any advice you may have.

Edit: Here is the single page version. I took out references, decreased top and bottom margins to 0.7, left to 1.5, right to 1.0, single spaced the entire document.

Thank 🙂

Latest update: http://www.scribd.com/doc/6123569/Final-Draft (Don't know why it adds a blank page on Scribd)
 
Well even when I took out the references, I still had a hard time cutting back to one page. I also want to keep the references on there as I have some high level references (including the CEO of Coca Cola). Should I put that on my cover letter instead?

Edit: What I meant was, if I try to fit everything except the references in a single page, I need to reduce margins to less than 1 cms and make that one page extremely crowded. Let me post one on Scribd like that. Give me a minute.

Edit2: Here is the single page version. I took out references, decreased top and bottom margins to 0.7, left to 1.5, right to 1.0, single spaced the entire document.

 
Hmmm,

*One page, no complaining
*Get rid of the references. It's assumed you have them and you will be asked if they want them.
*Remove the "Procurement of Goods and Services" training unless it's relevant to the job you're applying for.
*Job descriptions should be short, bulleted, and have many action verbs. No one wants to read paragraph, however, you should be able to explain everything in detail when asked.
*I might put education at the top, followed by experience then skills.
*Do you have a real email address? VT Alumnus email?
*As a reference, you mention someone from Maryland. Do you have relevant research experience with them?
 
Originally posted by: Turkish
Well even when I took out the references, I still had a hard time cutting back to one page. I also want to keep the references on there as I have some high level references (including the CEO of Coca Cola). Should I put that on my cover letter instead?

Edit: What I meant was, if I try to fit everything except the references in a single page, I need to reduce margins to less than 1 cms and make that one page extremely crowded. Let me post one on Scribd like that. Give me a minute.

Edit2: Here is the single page version. I took out references, decreased top and bottom margins to 0.7, left to 1.5, right to 1.0, single spaced the entire document.
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One page, no references. I don't mean just taking the references and putting it at tiny margins, I mean remove or delete some of it until it's one page. That's the best advice I can give.
 
Thank you 🙂

Originally posted by: drinkmorejava
*One page, no complaining
*Get rid of the references. It's assumed you have them and you will be asked if they want them.
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Ok, I got rid of the references and managed to fit everything on a single page by reducing margins.

*Remove the "Procurement of Goods and Services" training unless it's relevant to the job you're applying for.
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Hmmm, need to think about that. It could be useful for most of the jobs I apply to.

*Job descriptions should be short, bulleted, and have many action verbs. No one wants to read paragraph, however, you should be able to explain everything in detail when asked.
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True. I`ll do that but how am I going to distinguish between job description and results if I use bullets for both?

*Do you have a real email address? VT Alumnus email?
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Yeah but VT has a crappy spam filter and I get like 100 spam mail there so I never use it :-/

*As a reference, you mention someone from Maryland. Do you have relevant research experience with them?
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I worked with him at the WB.



 
Originally posted by: dNor
Originally posted by: Turkish
Well even when I took out the references, I still had a hard time cutting back to one page. I also want to keep the references on there as I have some high level references (including the CEO of Coca Cola). Should I put that on my cover letter instead?

Edit: What I meant was, if I try to fit everything except the references in a single page, I need to reduce margins to less than 1 cms and make that one page extremely crowded. Let me post one on Scribd like that. Give me a minute.

Edit2: Here is the single page version. I took out references, decreased top and bottom margins to 0.7, left to 1.5, right to 1.0, single spaced the entire document.
Click to expand...

One page, no references. I don't mean just taking the references and putting it at tiny margins, I mean remove or delete some of it until it's one page. That's the best advice I can give.
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Thanks, cut to one page.
 
I think it's too wordy. The description of your experience could shorten to 1 to 2 sentences max. That will allow you to talk about more of it during the interview.

I think the skills section could move up above the education. You could also change "Skills" to "Technical Expertise", and "Experience" to "Professional Experience"

Also, you should use a table for your skills section. So that the bold part will be on one column, and the other stuff would be on another column. This would make it line up nicely, and make it easier to read.

Shorten these too:
"Web and software development" -> "Programming Language:"
"Productivity and Creativity software" -> "Software:"
 
Originally posted by: nace186
I think it's too wordy. The description of your experience could shorten to 1 to 2 sentences max. That will allow you to talk about more of it during the interview.

I think the skills section could move up above the education. You could also change "Skills" to "Technical Expertise", and "Experience" to "Professional Experience"

Also, you should use a table for your skills section. So that the bold part will be on one column, and the other stuff would be on another column. This would make it line up nicely, and make it easier to read.

Shorten these too:
"Web and software development" -> "Programming Language:"
"Productivity and Creativity software" -> "Software:"
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Thanks. I'll try to cut down job descriptions.

Where would I put my language skills if I rename Skills to Technical Expertise? Keep it there?
 
Does it matter to the position you are trying to get? I usually tailor my resume to each company I'm applying to.

I modify this resume template for my need: http://jobsearchtech.about.com...hejob/a/SWE_Resume.htm

I added a short description (1-2 sentences) for each employment, and used 2-3 bullet for details.

If you are following the same template, you could put your language skills in the summary section.
 
Originally posted by: Turkish
Resume

I am hoping to get a web/online marketing job and revised my resume recently. I would appreciate any advice you may have.

Edit: Here is the single page version. I took out references, decreased top and bottom margins to 0.7, left to 1.5, right to 1.0, single spaced the entire document.

Thank 🙂
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Wow you are quite accomplished :beer:
 
Originally posted by: Barack Obama
Originally posted by: Turkish
Resume

I am hoping to get a web/online marketing job and revised my resume recently. I would appreciate any advice you may have.

Edit: Here is the single page version. I took out references, decreased top and bottom margins to 0.7, left to 1.5, right to 1.0, single spaced the entire document.

Thank 🙂
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Wow you are quite accomplished :beer:
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Thanks 🙂 Bump for a review of the final draft.
 
No offense to others offering opinions here, but I wouldn't take opinions for face-value and just implement them. The old "only one page" rule is antiquated, and passing it around as some absolute is only telling half the truth. The reality is that most accomplished people can't condense their experience into a single page, nor should you. The question is really whether or not the information is concise; it's a resume, not an autobiography.

My only recommendation would be to focus the resume more. From reading it, I can't tell if you want to work with PHP or if you're looking for a business development position. Mixing technical with business almost always confuses people, so I would either enhance your business strengths and minimize the technical or vice versa. It looks to me like you're leaning towards business though.

If you are going for business, you need more quantifiable attributes. What you said about decreasing traffic by 20% is a great metric, so I would see if you could do the equivalent for your Muzik position. Did you increase efficiency, increase revenue, decrease costs or anything else to quantify your value to the business? It's great that Muzik is such a popular company, but it doesn't say anything about what you've done. More about you, less about the company.

Other than that, it looks like you're going to have a productive career ahead of you.
 
Thank you Descartes.

You are absolutely right. Now that I think more about it, I am going to keep the second page as I can put non-essential information on there.

From reading it, I can't tell if you want to work with PHP or if you're looking for a business development position.
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I try to make that distinction on my cover letter 🙂

I'll try to quantify my MuzikKutusu accomplishments. Its a little hard to do as it grew from a hobby site... not a business but we had advertising, revenue, income.

Thank you for honest opinion 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Descartes
No offense to others offering opinions here, but I wouldn't take opinions for face-value and just implement them. The old "only one page" rule is antiquated, and passing it around as some absolute is only telling half the truth. The reality is that most accomplished people can't condense their experience into a single page, nor should you. The question is really whether or not the information is concise; it's a resume, not an autobiography.

My only recommendation would be to focus the resume more. From reading it, I can't tell if you want to work with PHP or if you're looking for a business development position. Mixing technical with business almost always confuses people, so I would either enhance your business strengths and minimize the technical or vice versa. It looks to me like you're leaning towards business though.

If you are going for business, you need more quantifiable attributes. What you said about decreasing traffic by 20% is a great metric, so I would see if you could do the equivalent for your Muzik position. Did you increase efficiency, increase revenue, decrease costs or anything else to quantify your value to the business? It's great that Muzik is such a popular company, but it doesn't say anything about what you've done. More about you, less about the company.

Other than that, it looks like you're going to have a productive career ahead of you.
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Good advice. The gmail addy is fine...the people that would care for having a 'cooler' or whatever email address probably would never be in a hiring position for anything major. If you were in the creative side of things or art/acting then flashy trinkets become more important.

Being one page ESP. for a technical resume is next to impossible for anyone but a noob. Just my education is about 1/3 of a page pretty condensed add in the list of my related positions over the last 20 years and that's a page easy without saying anything really about my skills. For a technical resume, they want to see the laundry list of what and how.

The thing that gets really messed up with these types of hirers is they may see you have CCIE but no A+ cert and kick the resume not understanding the more high level one. I still encounter a ton of MCSE+ level jobs that insist one has an A+ cert or worse overlook a proven CTO over a fledgling engineer because the former never received an MCSE.

You have good highlights, like Descartes said though some of it needs more tailoring to how it applies to you.

Also what is the position you are looking for? Without knowing that we really can't say how effective this is.
 
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