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I'm wrestling with my resume, for a couple of reasons. The simple one is that it was almost a decade out of date--I've been working, not job-hunting, and it never seemed urgent.
So I need to decide what to include, and what to emphasize. Nobody is going to care anymore that I did college radio in 1983, since I've done nothing related since and am not looking to. But what else do I drop?
I've been using the hotjobs site, which has the disadvantage of a strict format, and the larger disadvantage of limiting each user to one resume. I think I need about three, while I try to decide whether I'm an editor, a systems administrator, or an aspiring technical writer.
The other problem is that I'm trained to write paragraphs that consist of clear, grammatical sentences. "A paragraph is the basic unit of composition".
Resume writing works by different rules. So do haiku, of course, but the stakes are higher here.
Maybe I should think of it as training for technical writing: the first thing I'm documenting, complete with active verbs and bulleted lists, is my career history.
So I need to decide what to include, and what to emphasize. Nobody is going to care anymore that I did college radio in 1983, since I've done nothing related since and am not looking to. But what else do I drop?
I've been using the hotjobs site, which has the disadvantage of a strict format, and the larger disadvantage of limiting each user to one resume. I think I need about three, while I try to decide whether I'm an editor, a systems administrator, or an aspiring technical writer.
The other problem is that I'm trained to write paragraphs that consist of clear, grammatical sentences. "A paragraph is the basic unit of composition".
Resume writing works by different rules. So do haiku, of course, but the stakes are higher here.
Maybe I should think of it as training for technical writing: the first thing I'm documenting, complete with active verbs and bulleted lists, is my career history.