YA Resume thread...Please, which resume layout looks better?

[adlep]

ResumeA
ResumeB
?

 

[dighn]

i see blank. you must be very confident.

 

[adlep]

The layout for the resume A has been with me for about two years so I am not sure if I can let it go, my tech writing teacher have said that it is too cluttered and difficult for eyes, threfore the layout B?
But is it any better?

 

[Tinkerhell]

Resume B

 

[biffbacon]

i like B

 

[Regs]

I'm still not hiring you.

Joking.

I like B as well.

And one question, who networked you in at CompUSA?

 

[dighn]

the 2nd one

 

[Hector13]

I would pick B, but remove the underlined company names. Also, I would probably move your cert out of the education heading.

 

[tizodq]

i like B also, looks more organized

 

[MustangSVT]

Originally posted by: dighn
i see blank. you must be very confident.

Hmm good idea... perhaps i will try that someday

 

[adlep]

who networked you in at CompUSA?

A friend...lol
It was in the 90s anyway....It was very easy to get an IT job back then.
Hiring bonus, stock options, 50000+ for start.
It is all history now.
Anyway, the Compusa job was a sucky money job and no benefits at all, but I learned a lot while messing with all these poor customer's computers..
Got laid-off for the first time, and then for the second time as a part-timer...
Thanks for the feedback folks
Edit:

I'm still not hiring you.

I am not looking for a job for now
But I still have to do it for my tech writing class...
P.S. Mike, I am not in Ann Arbor now, got a house in Ferndale...

 

Definitely B, fellow Ann Arborite!

 

[opticalmace]

Seems pretty obvious B is the better layout.

 

[AirPower]

I like resume B, good luck

 

[adlep]

Big thanks to GTaudiophile for allowing me to borrow parts of his resume's layout.
:beer:

 

[RagingBITCH]

B by far. A is way too busy/crowded and just hard to read.

Having one blank CompUSA at the bottom is pretty pointless though. Either consolidate it into the other one or do something with it or just get rid of it.

Take out your school's web site.

Might want to consolidate IT certifications with Technical Qualifications. You might have gotten them in classes at your university but it doesn't make sense to keep it up there.

 

[ajpa123]

Hey,

nice resume!
I also like Resume B better.

If you want constructive critisicm.. here goes.

In your objective, i would remove the word 'related', its seems redundant.
I would replace 'interesting' with 'challenging'
Also, using the word 'expand my ablilities' may lead the headhunter to think that your currently limited,.. something which you're not.. so you want to keep him/her reading.


I would use something like:

To obtain a challenging Information Technology postion where my skills in solving hardware/software problems and decison-making will be utilized to add value to your operations.

(it flows nicely i think)

Hope it helps!
AJ.

 

[lizardboy]

Having the dates you worked right-justified looks terrible. B is still better than A but I think it's still fairly ugly. You're trying to save space by having too much info on the initial lines and then everything bulleted below. Remove the bullets, write them in paragraphy style and break the employer/job info into two lines, something like:

Acme Inc., Atlanta, Georgia
Associate Producer, September 1999 ? May 2001
Resolved blah blah blah. Planned, scheduled and implemented blah blah blha. Supervised blah blah blah.

 

[adlep]

Having one blank CompUSA at the bottom is pretty pointless though. Either consolidate it into the other one or do something with it or just get rid of it.

I have been thinking about this same thing...
But what I could do with it?
I can not just yank a 1 year of experience out of my resume, not yet...
How to merge two into one?
Edit:

Might want to consolidate IT certifications with Technical Qualifications. You might have gotten them in classes at your university but it doesn't make sense to keep it up there.

Still keeping IT certs in EDUCATION makes sense, because IT IS your education.
But good point on the school's web site....

 

[Jdinh04]

resume B

 

[RagingBITCH]

Originally posted by: adlep

Having one blank CompUSA at the bottom is pretty pointless though. Either consolidate it into the other one or do something with it or just get rid of it.

I have been thinking about this same thing...
But what I could do with it?
I can not just yank a 1 year of experience out of my resume, not yet...
How to merge two into one?

Consider what lizardboy said and follow some of his advice - that would give you more room to add both in, like:

Acme Inc., Ann Arbor/Madison Heights, MI
Associate Producer, September 1999 ? May 2001, May 2002 - August 2003
Resolved blah blah blah. Planned, scheduled and implemented blah blah blha. Supervised blah blah blah

That looks semi crowded so you'd have to play with the formatting of it though.

 

[lizardboy]

Also lose interersting & related in your objective. You always want to stress what you can bring to them, not the other way around.

Presented should not be past tense in the Summary of Skills.

Familiarity should not be capitalized in Tech Qual

 

[lizardboy]

Originally posted by: adlep

Having one blank CompUSA at the bottom is pretty pointless though. Either consolidate it into the other one or do something with it or just get rid of it.

I have been thinking about this same thing...
But what I could do with it?
I can not just yank a 1 year of experience out of my resume, not yet...
How to merge two into one?
Edit:

Might want to consolidate IT certifications with Technical Qualifications. You might have gotten them in classes at your university but it doesn't make sense to keep it up there.

Still keeping IT certs in EDUCATION makes sense, because IT IS your education.
But good point on the school's web site....

Format it like I mentioned above and put both times on 1 line

 

[lizardboy]

Originally posted by: RagingBITCH

Originally posted by: adlep

Having one blank CompUSA at the bottom is pretty pointless though. Either consolidate it into the other one or do something with it or just get rid of it.

I have been thinking about this same thing...
But what I could do with it?
I can not just yank a 1 year of experience out of my resume, not yet...
How to merge two into one?

Consider what lizardboy said and follow some of his advice - that would give you more room to add both in, like:

Acme Inc., Ann Arbor/Madison Heights, MI
Associate Producer, September 1999 ? May 2001, May 2002 - August 2003
Resolved blah blah blah. Planned, scheduled and implemented blah blah blha. Supervised blah blah blah

That looks semi crowded so you'd have to play with the formatting of it though.

Once you get in Word and you start bolding & italicizing things it looks a lot better.

 

[adlep]

A lot of good info here folks, thanks!
Other people, feel free to join in, to start my second resume thread...
First thread