Help With Resume
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Okay, from the top, the skills section is all over the place:
Look at that first line... all kinds of really important skills just mashed together, plurals incorrect, unneeded words, etc. Windows. Saying OS is redundant and filler. And no plural ever has an apostrophe.
Second line isn't a skill, it's part of our education, and why do we care?
Third and forth line are one time installs, that's so important that they are your skills?
Look at the things in your skills list, these are the things someone would hire you based on. From reading this, I feel like I'd only want to look at your resume further if I wanted to hire someone to run my Fax Press system and ownCloud.
And you have ownCloud and OpenFire misspelled. Never misspell your skills! It looks like you are just hearing about them for the first time as you write them on your resume.
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@stacksofplates said in Help With Resume:
If it were me, I would spell out which OS versions. Windows OS's could mean XP and Server 2003, which is essentially useless.
Or no servers at all. Just Windows 98 and XP.
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@stacksofplates said in Help With Resume:
Linux OS's could mean almost anything.
Android phones and Raspian.
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@alex.olynyk said in Help With Resume:
@scottalanmiller How should it be formatted? So I can fix?
One thing, I would not make it a category, I'd make it a job. The header of military for a single entry seems wrong. Then that single entry has just one bullet point. It looks like you started filing it in and forgot to come back to it. Just add it on as your last (or first, you know... at the bottom) job.
Maybe find a way to have two bullet points.
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Formatting should always be consistent and clear. Your spacing between topics is all over the place. And tabs are all over the place. Each entry should be in identical formats. Think about making an office report, make this look like one you'd want to turn in.
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See how "Employment" is an entry just like each job? And the state and the date move around in every entry. And the job title is not in a consistent spot. And the line after the title is sometimes a bullet and sometimes a space.
No need for months, IMHO. I take those out, no one cares that much.
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Should a MOOC be on a resume under Education?
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The forth job has a completely unique format to it as well.
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@alex.olynyk said in Help With Resume:
Should a MOOC be on a resume under Education?
What is a MOOC?
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@scottalanmiller massive open online course
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If you don't have lots of certs to put into a list, just add this to your Windows skill item:
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@alex.olynyk said in Help With Resume:
@scottalanmiller massive open online course
I don't know what that means, but unless it was an accredited university, don't list it under education (or at all.) Taking classes is not something you list on a resume.
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Just in this one tiny section, deploying ownCloud and OpenFire appear twice. Nothing should appear twice on your resume.
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Start by defining your skills. Skills are not "Tasks I've Done", they are "things I'm good at and feel that you should hire me because of". The rest of the resume is showing support for the skills list.
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@scottalanmiller How do I define my level of experience with a skill? If I list PowerShell, do they assume I am an expert or just know the fundamentals?
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@alex.olynyk said in Help With Resume:
@scottalanmiller How do I define my level of experience with a skill? If I list PowerShell, do they assume I am an expert or just know the fundamentals?
Depends on how you present it. If you only know the fundamentals, why would it be a key skill on which you are basing your career, though?
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I'd put something like Windows 7 - 10. Brevity is your friend.
Server 2012? That's both your first and your last experience? Why have you not gotten 2016 installed at home yet? Assuming you want to work with Windows, and given that you lead your resume with it, I'm assuming that you do.
MS Office... no matter how good you are at it, that's a secretarial skill, unless you are implying some mastery of deploying it or something. How do you expect me to take it seeing it listed as one of your most critical skills?
Ubuntu and CentOS on a line together is fine, but on a huge line of randomness isn't good. What is their association with MS Office, for example?
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@scottalanmiller I have 2016 installed on my personal laptop in Client Hyper-V. I dont have the funds for server hardware.
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@alex.olynyk said in Help With Resume:
@scottalanmiller I have 2016 installed on my personal laptop in Client Hyper-V. I dont have the funds for server hardware.
What does server hardware have to do with it? The OS is the OS, it's the same wherever it is installed.
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@scottalanmiller said in Help With Resume:
@alex.olynyk said in Help With Resume:
@scottalanmiller I have 2016 installed on my personal laptop in Client Hyper-V. I dont have the funds for server hardware.
What does server hardware have to do with it? The OS is the OS, it's the same wherever it is installed.
Right - it should really only ever be installed inside a VM anyhow, so server hardware or laptop, doesn't matter, experience is experience.
