Visual Resumes?
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@scottalanmiller said in Visual Resumes?:
@networknerd said in Visual Resumes?:
I think having a blog or some projects on your Spiceworks community account page would work better to reinforce your normal resume as visual representations of what you have actually accomplished.
A blog is helpful for really senior positions where people take the time to research your writings. Spiceworks isn’t a tech community and I think having a project list there actively looks really bad.
It is not a tech community only in your literal definition of the terms. Whether you like it or not, the colloquial definition of the word applies here and it is a tech community.
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@jaredbusch said in Visual Resumes?:
@scottalanmiller said in Visual Resumes?:
@networknerd said in Visual Resumes?:
I think having a blog or some projects on your Spiceworks community account page would work better to reinforce your normal resume as visual representations of what you have actually accomplished.
A blog is helpful for really senior positions where people take the time to research your writings. Spiceworks isn’t a tech community and I think having a project list there actively looks really bad.
It is not a tech community only in your literal definition of the terms. Whether you like it or not, the colloquial definition of the word applies here and it is a tech community.
Not a community “for techs”, but for people buying tech. It’s tech as in it’s about technology, not tech as in for people who do tech work.
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Colloquial tech would equal “embarassing to use as a resume point”.
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Regardless of the platform's intended purpose, isn't it about how someone leverages the platform to his / her advantage?
I think of Spiceworks and blogs as platforms to showcase things you know / have accomplished. If I have a project listed on Spiceworks with all technology used and a description of the project, it's more than just something listed on my resume as an accomplishment. "While at company ABC, I was able to complete this project. Even though I only helped my boss implement technology XYZ, I was exposed to these components of it such as blah, blah, and blah. I have those listed on my Spiceworks community profile if you would like more information."
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@networknerd said in Visual Resumes?:
Regardless of the platform's intended purpose, isn't it about how someone leverages the platform to his / her advantage?
No, it is not. It you put your profile on Craiglist, that reflects badly on you, does it not? It doesn't matter what content you put on there, the platform itself is part of the message.
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@scottalanmiller said in Visual Resumes?:
@networknerd said in Visual Resumes?:
Regardless of the platform's intended purpose, isn't it about how someone leverages the platform to his / her advantage?
No, it is not. It you put your profile on Craiglist, that reflects badly on you, does it not? It doesn't matter what content you put on there, the platform itself is part of the message.
So where would be a good place to point to our projects ? Our own github or personal site?
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@dbeato said in Visual Resumes?:
@scottalanmiller said in Visual Resumes?:
@networknerd said in Visual Resumes?:
Regardless of the platform's intended purpose, isn't it about how someone leverages the platform to his / her advantage?
No, it is not. It you put your profile on Craiglist, that reflects badly on you, does it not? It doesn't matter what content you put on there, the platform itself is part of the message.
So where would be a good place to point to our projects ? Our own github or personal site?
Interview with words.
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@tim_g said in Visual Resumes?:
@dbeato said in Visual Resumes?:
@scottalanmiller said in Visual Resumes?:
@networknerd said in Visual Resumes?:
Regardless of the platform's intended purpose, isn't it about how someone leverages the platform to his / her advantage?
No, it is not. It you put your profile on Craiglist, that reflects badly on you, does it not? It doesn't matter what content you put on there, the platform itself is part of the message.
So where would be a good place to point to our projects ? Our own github or personal site?
Interview with words.
I understand and that’s how I do it, I meant for projects to be shown if in said interview is asked.
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@dbeato said in Visual Resumes?:
@tim_g said in Visual Resumes?:
@dbeato said in Visual Resumes?:
@scottalanmiller said in Visual Resumes?:
@networknerd said in Visual Resumes?:
Regardless of the platform's intended purpose, isn't it about how someone leverages the platform to his / her advantage?
No, it is not. It you put your profile on Craiglist, that reflects badly on you, does it not? It doesn't matter what content you put on there, the platform itself is part of the message.
So where would be a good place to point to our projects ? Our own github or personal site?
Interview with words.
I understand and that’s how I do it, I meant for projects to be shown if in said interview is asked.
troll moment: What are these "interviews?"
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@dbeato said in Visual Resumes?:
@tim_g said in Visual Resumes?:
@dbeato said in Visual Resumes?:
@scottalanmiller said in Visual Resumes?:
@networknerd said in Visual Resumes?:
Regardless of the platform's intended purpose, isn't it about how someone leverages the platform to his / her advantage?
No, it is not. It you put your profile on Craiglist, that reflects badly on you, does it not? It doesn't matter what content you put on there, the platform itself is part of the message.
So where would be a good place to point to our projects ? Our own github or personal site?
Interview with words.
I understand and that’s how I do it, I meant for projects to be shown if in said interview is asked.
Most IT projects aren't really that impressive. If you go into detail about a project that isn't really that impressive, then that will show your inexperience. And if you have an impressive project it will sound impressive even without going into too much detail. They will ask you about it in the interview if they want to know more.
That being said, if you can show infrastructure as code on github, bitbucket, gitlab, etc. then put that link on your resume. However, depending on your work policies you might only be able to showcase personal project stuff on there. A dev can't showcase projects done on a closed source program, however there is generally more leeway with your infrastructure code.
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It may be better to just link to your Blog on your resume and mention you're an active member on IT discussion forums such as ML and SW.
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But then again, if they don't know what ML or SW is, they may think it's a bad thing... I don't know. I'm not a hiring manager.
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@tim_g said in Visual Resumes?:
It may be better to just link to your Blog on your resume and mention you're an active member on IT discussion forums such as ML and SW.
That's what I do. I highlight my activity and involvement, not projects I've done.
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@tim_g said in Visual Resumes?:
But then again, if they don't know what ML or SW is, they may think it's a bad thing... I don't know. I'm not a hiring manager.
That's why you say that they are IT Professional Peer communities. Which ones don't matter much.
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@dbeato said in Visual Resumes?:
@scottalanmiller said in Visual Resumes?:
@networknerd said in Visual Resumes?:
Regardless of the platform's intended purpose, isn't it about how someone leverages the platform to his / her advantage?
No, it is not. It you put your profile on Craiglist, that reflects badly on you, does it not? It doesn't matter what content you put on there, the platform itself is part of the message.
So where would be a good place to point to our projects ? Our own github or personal site?
I don't think anywhere. Why would you list projects? I've always found this to be a "Spiceworks-ism", kind of like their RFQ system. No one wanted it before they created these things, then they promoted them and people promote them because SW says so - not because it's something that hiring managers or hirees want. "Projects" aren't things to highlight, it's just "weird" to do so. Your projects are to provide experience and skill, those you list. If someone wants to know more about where you've gotten a skill, you can talk about projects you've done.
Take a look at SW project stuff, it's all super silly. I "deployed email" or "I upgraded AD"... IT "projects" are just "tasks" and shouldn't be highlighted. Especially since to be impressive you'd need hundreds or thousands of them. Without that, it looks like you've hardly done anything.
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@scottalanmiller said in Visual Resumes?:
@dbeato said in Visual Resumes?:
@scottalanmiller said in Visual Resumes?:
@networknerd said in Visual Resumes?:
Regardless of the platform's intended purpose, isn't it about how someone leverages the platform to his / her advantage?
No, it is not. It you put your profile on Craiglist, that reflects badly on you, does it not? It doesn't matter what content you put on there, the platform itself is part of the message.
So where would be a good place to point to our projects ? Our own github or personal site?
I don't think anywhere. Why would you list projects? I've always found this to be a "Spiceworks-ism", kind of like their RFQ system. No one wanted it before they created these things, then they promoted them and people promote them because SW says so - not because it's something that hiring managers or hirees want. "Projects" aren't things to highlight, it's just "weird" to do so. Your projects are to provide experience and skill, those you list. If someone wants to know more about where you've gotten a skill, you can talk about projects you've done.
Take a look at SW project stuff, it's all super silly. I "deployed email" or "I upgraded AD"... IT "projects" are just "tasks" and shouldn't be highlighted. Especially since to be impressive you'd need hundreds or thousands of them. Without that, it looks like you've hardly done anything.
I see, I mean on a resume you usually highlight the most important parts of your work on each company you have worked but yeah you should be able to articulate your skills.
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@dbeato said in Visual Resumes?:
I see, I mean on a resume you usually highlight the most important parts of your work on each company you have worked but yeah you should be able to articulate your skills.
I don't, not in that way. Certainly not listing out little projects, I see that on a lot of resumes and just assume that those people have done very little.
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@scottalanmiller said in Visual Resumes?:
@dbeato said in Visual Resumes?:
I see, I mean on a resume you usually highlight the most important parts of your work on each company you have worked but yeah you should be able to articulate your skills.
I don't, not in that way. Certainly not listing out little projects, I see that on a lot of resumes and just assume that those people have done very little.
I don't list projects, I list what was improved or how we helped the company but certainly not projects....
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@dbeato said in Visual Resumes?:
@scottalanmiller said in Visual Resumes?:
@dbeato said in Visual Resumes?:
I see, I mean on a resume you usually highlight the most important parts of your work on each company you have worked but yeah you should be able to articulate your skills.
I don't, not in that way. Certainly not listing out little projects, I see that on a lot of resumes and just assume that those people have done very little.
I don't list projects, I list what was improved or how we helped the company but certainly not projects....
I don't list those things either, because they don't tell the hiring manager anything. How it helped the company is always subjective - and often wrong. I've seen many a person list things like that on a resume and then when questioned, say it helped the company, but then when questioned about it, they weren't sure why and it ended up looking like a mistake (some big SW threads about that.) Those almost never look good because if they aren't the best, most amazing thing ever, then people wonder how that was helpful (as opposed to doing something better) and people wonder why someone would be showing off that they were assigned to a useful project as if that reflects on them personally.
Like.... I saved the company a million dollars by moving us to Exchange!
Oh really... how much would you have saved had you moved to something cheaper? Fail.
Or.... so you were working for a company so screwed up that they were losing a million dollars by using a bad email system and you are taking credit for the savings by having pushed the buttons to install the new system? Fail.
There is rarely, I think, a good way to look at those things as a hiring manager. I think that they almost always look really bad on a resume because they don't convey anything useful, but look like empty claims to fill space.
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@scottalanmiller said in Visual Resumes?:
@dbeato said in Visual Resumes?:
@scottalanmiller said in Visual Resumes?:
@dbeato said in Visual Resumes?:
I see, I mean on a resume you usually highlight the most important parts of your work on each company you have worked but yeah you should be able to articulate your skills.
I don't, not in that way. Certainly not listing out little projects, I see that on a lot of resumes and just assume that those people have done very little.
I don't list projects, I list what was improved or how we helped the company but certainly not projects....
I don't list those things either, because they don't tell the hiring manager anything. How it helped the company is always subjective - and often wrong. I've seen many a person list things like that on a resume and then when questioned, say it helped the company, but then when questioned about it, they weren't sure why and it ended up looking like a mistake (some big SW threads about that.) Those almost never look good because if they aren't the best, most amazing thing ever, then people wonder how that was helpful (as opposed to doing something better) and people wonder why someone would be showing off that they were assigned to a useful project as if that reflects on them personally.
Like.... I saved the company a million dollars by moving us to Exchange!
Oh really... how much would you have saved had you moved to something cheaper? Fail.
Or.... so you were working for a company so screwed up that they were losing a million dollars by using a bad email system and you are taking credit for the savings by having pushed the buttons to install the new system? Fail.
There is rarely, I think, a good way to look at those things as a hiring manager. I think that they almost always look really bad on a resume because they don't convey anything useful, but look like empty claims to fill space.
So then, we are left to place skills, stints on companies/business or owning a company and that's it correct? Then let the interview play out.
