Resume Writing Tips

[Flint]

Thanks, lookout. And thanks, everybody, again.

Originally Posted by lookout123

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Currently working on _____degree
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Self education (you obviously learned the skills you have, point out the systems you've learned in comparison to some class)

For my job, there is no university degree. It doesn't exist.

My current title calls for:

Associates Degree in Computer Applications (preferred) or equivalent work experience

I have the experience, and I'm about halfway through an associate's in networking.

Everything I have is self education/OJT, and that will be made obvious in the "mad skills" section.
I obviously have to know how to do what I'm already doing; I'm just not sure how to describe that "in comparison to some class" ...

I'm struggling with education as a section. My education is in my job history. I don't want to have a weak-looking section.

[lookout123]

Associates Degree in Computer Applications

That's a degee.

List your OJT in your education section as exactly that:

On Job Training
*adh+
*buttkissing 202
*world fixing
* etc.

[Flint]

I want to thank you all again for all your advice. Many of you guys on here I consider role models in the IT field.

I have this thread open, both pages on a separate tab, while working on my resume while my daughter is taking a nap and my wife is at the store with little man.

I do so many different things it's a huge organizational task to list it all out. Haven't done that since my review two years ago, where they took what I typed up and copy/pasted it as my job description.

Now I'm trying to condense it into a list of concrete skillsets and accomplishments.

I wish I could just write "I will learn whatever system you have, because, look -- that's what I do!"

[Trilby]

Originally Posted by Flint

Many of you guys on here I consider role models in the IT field.

You're welcome, sweetie!

[tw]

Originally Posted by Flint

I do so many different things it's a huge organizational task to list it all out. Haven't done that since my review two years ago, where they took what I typed up and copy/pasted it as my job description.

Now I'm trying to condense it into a list of concrete skillsets and accomplishments.

Different formats were proposed. You must decide what about yourself to sell. For example, do you sell your stability of employment? Then list the various types of jobs with how you worked those jobs until whatever. Do you sell your ability to grasp or grow in a job? Then sell how you took on new responsibility and how you did more than work a job - how you trained yourself. Do you sell yourself with experience to adapt to any jobs - from construction to flipping hamburgers to data processing, etc. Again, then sell that experience noting how each job was so different and how you adapted no matter what the job.

IOW before the resume format is selected, first decide what it is you want to sell yourself on. Chances are the resume may be written from different perspectives. Only then may it become apparent what is the best way to sell yourself.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Or write all the available formats and pick which one tells the story best. If you find yourself struggling with a format, it's probably not a good one for you.