YART: Help critic my resume

[SyahM]

Here is my resume. What do you think?

 

[human2k]

Seems to me that with the advent of x86-64 that AMD and Microsoft ought to team up to try some new wrinkles with memory management. Instead of strictly setting memory management inside of each program with the OS loosely arranging the big picture, why not develop some new tricks for it? Seems like so many tasks are optimized for memory to be either serial or parrallel in nature. Imagine if the OS could address two separate memory memory types to optimize these differences. Add in motherboards with memory banks 0 and 1 supporting 200MHz DDR RAM while memory banks 2 and 3 would be for PC1200 RDRAM devices. The user would ultimately decide whether he wanted to load up on one memory type or the other, all the while enjoying the benefits of using each type of RAM. Perhaps this would be little more complicated than current dual-channel chipsets, where the chipset already switches back and forth between two separate memory channels to feed the main vein so to speak; the trick is apparently all in the buffering.

Now this idea isn't quite the NUMA approach that people have brought up in the past. And it would require support from BOTH hardware (memory and chipset) manufacturers and software (OS and applications) programmers to get it to work. What other hurdles do you engineers out there see in a design like this?

 

[Pepsi90919]

i think i wished i lived on ATOT dr.

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: human2k
Seems to me that with the advent of x86-64 that AMD and Microsoft ought to team up to try some new wrinkles with memory management. Instead of strictly setting memory management inside of each program with the OS loosely arranging the big picture, why not develop some new tricks for it? Seems like so many tasks are optimized for memory to be either serial or parrallel in nature. Imagine if the OS could address two separate memory memory types to optimize these differences. Add in motherboards with memory banks 0 and 1 supporting 200MHz DDR RAM while memory banks 2 and 3 would be for PC1200 RDRAM devices. The user would ultimately decide whether he wanted to load up on one memory type or the other, all the while enjoying the benefits of using each type of RAM. Perhaps this would be little more complicated than current dual-channel chipsets, where the chipset already switches back and forth between two separate memory channels to feed the main vein so to speak; the trick is apparently all in the buffering.

Now this idea isn't quite the NUMA approach that people have brought up in the past. And it would require support from BOTH hardware (memory and chipset) manufacturers and software (OS and applications) programmers to get it to work. What other hurdles do you engineers out there see in a design like this?

 

[mryellow2]

"critique"

It looks good to me although there are a few spelling/grammatical errors.

 

[SyahM]

Originally posted by: mryellow2
"critique" It looks good to me although there are a few spelling/grammatical errors.

mr yellow, could you please point out to me the errors?

 

[jw791]

OK coupla things...

For a recent college graduate...if your GPA was 3.0 or above, you should put it there.

Focus more on specific numbers/accomplishments that will differentiate yourself from others. For example, the "Raised $35,000" is a strong bullet. At Circuit city, are you one of the top salespeople? Do they measure that? If so, put it down.

For your degree, it is stronger to put BSBA in Finance, rather than separating your majors. I would want to see exactly what your degree is in.

A stronger resume bullets results rather than activities, if that makes sense. So instead of listing what you did, see if you can tweak it to show how what you did improved your company/operation.

Hope that helps and good luck!

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: human2k
Now this idea isn't quite the NUMA approach that people have brought up in the past. And it would require support from BOTH hardware (memory and chipset) manufacturers and software (OS and applications) programmers to get it to work. What other hurdles do you engineers out there see in a design like this?

Human2k, are you having difficulty posting today. You posted just like this in the wedding thread. Either (a) you are drunk/injured/blind/careless and cannot see which window you are typing in or (b) you are neffing.

As for the resume it looks like it is off to a good start - much better than most YART threads I see. But a few nitpicky things bothered me (in no particular order)
1) There is no objective statement. What do you want in a job? What specifically do you want to do? And you should alter this for each company you give the resume to: how does this company fit your wants.
2) The education section is quite lacking. If you got bad grades, and no awards, and want to highlight experience then that is fine. But did you get any nice awards/scholarships/good GPA/etc?
3) The numerous references to St Louis bothers me. You went to "Washington University in St. Louis at St. Louis." Or worked at the St. Louis Post Dispatch in St. Louis. It just is a bit redundant I guess.
4) It may be just my opinion, but I think the main headlines need to be reworked a bit: one size larger font and consistent spacing (space above "education" is small, above "Work Experience" is medium, above "Skills" is quite large.
5) Optional: maybe condense some of those skills into Microsoft Office instead of listing each individual program in Office. Of course anyone with your other skills and experience knows how to use Word. So unless you specifically want a job that is focussed on using Word, it would be safe to just list that you are experienced in all Microsoft Office programs. This then highlights your more unique skills - Matlab for example.

 

[ajayjuneja]

that's nice... now what do you want to do? Your resume shows no objective, and no clear choice of direction

 

[Yossarian]

it's not bad. I would change the format a little so you don't have one column listing "St. Louis MO" 42 times.