Resume Critique
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Good point by @gjacobse about education. The resume is short and you want to at least fill a single page. Dropping degrees would not make sense here. At times, maybe, I know that @scottalanmiller does that. But on a one page resume, having some educational background information is probably quite valuable.
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@scottalanmiller said in Resume Critique:
Change "Freelance IT Professional" into "Consultant" or something like that.
I think Freelance implies he wasn't incorporated or LLC or anything like that. Personally liable. Consultant implies that he was.
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@tim_g How does "consultant" imply incorporation?
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because "freelance" doesn't.
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@tim_g said in Resume Critique:
because "freelance" doesn't.
That's not really a good argument.
I am going to have to agree with Scott on this, I would much rather see Consultant than Freelance. To me, freelance sounds like that guy who fixed his friends computer in the late 90s. The term just doesn't come across as professional sounding to me.
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@computerchip said in Resume Critique:
The term just doesn't come across as professional sounding to me.
It's not meant to.
I do agree "Consultant" sounds much better, but there is a difference between a freelancer and consultant.
If what he did was consulting, then he should list consulting. If he was freelancing, well, he can still put consulting or decorate it however he wants... and when asked about it, he can clarify.
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@tim_g said in Resume Critique:
@computerchip said in Resume Critique:
The term just doesn't come across as professional sounding to me.
It's not meant to.
I do agree "Consultant" sounds much better, but there is a difference between a freelancer and consultant.
If what he did was consulting, then he should list consulting. If he was freelancing, well, he can still put consulting or decorate it however he wants... and when asked about it, he can clarify.
Right, the full term is "freelance consultant." But we don't care that he was freelance, only that he was a consultant.
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I appreciate the feedback thus far. When I get home from work, I'll review it, answer questions, and make some edits.
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@gjacobse said in Resume Critique:
In your final - loos the boarder around the skills - nearly all resumes are digitally scanned and coded for key word searches. Boarders screw it up and you may get lost on a good position.
It is a sad state of things if borders screw up scanning.
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@strongbad said in Resume Critique:
@gjacobse said in Resume Critique:
In your final - loos the boarder around the skills - nearly all resumes are digitally scanned and coded for key word searches. Boarders screw it up and you may get lost on a good position.
It is a sad state of things if borders screw up scanning.
yea,.. but think old school fax... and how bad that was.
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@gjacobse said in Resume Critique:
@strongbad said in Resume Critique:
@gjacobse said in Resume Critique:
In your final - loos the boarder around the skills - nearly all resumes are digitally scanned and coded for key word searches. Boarders screw it up and you may get lost on a good position.
It is a sad state of things if borders screw up scanning.
yea,.. but think old school fax... and how bad that was.
But modern firms needing to hire current people, they can't be doing this today.
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@eddiejennings said in Resume Critique:
I appreciate the feedback thus far. When I get home from work, I'll review it, answer questions, and make some edits.
Let us know when there are new edits to see.
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@wirestyle22 said in Resume Critique:
@eddiejennings One thing @scottalanmiller said in response to my resume was to build myself up FOR my resume. I had a specific interest in Linux and as such worked on Ansible, Graylog, a Jumpbox, Samba AD, Mattermost, Active Directory built entirely in Linux, etc. www.udemy.com is a GREAT resource that @IRJ recommended to me. I am currently in the process of learning Ansible, Puppet, and Salt.
Wait - didn't you leave IT?
Yep. Still interested in learning though. It's my hobby too
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Here is version 2 of the work in progress.
I added a few points that thought would be useful. My concern is that the points on the resume don't tell the whole story. For example, the line about server consolidation. When I arrived, we had a Dell T620 that was running Hyper-V as a Windows Server role, and the VMs on it were used for development. We also had an old desktop that was our Sage server. Over the course of my four years there, as I was granted more control over the network and decisions and learned more (thanks ML) about how stuff is supposed to be, that desktop-as-a-server is gone, the T620 was redone with Hyper-V 2016 as it's supposed to be and everything is a VM.
The problem is that we already had virtualization, but I improved it, yet "Consolidated physical servers into a Hyper-V 2016 virtual environment" reads to me as if there was no virtualization and I designed the whole thing.
Methinks I'm over-thinking this. As the above explanation would probably be great for the interview when the person asks me to explain what I mean by "Consolidated physical servers into a Hyper-V 2016 virtual environment."
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I like the fact that you have thought about listing things like I saved this much... but that is not for the resume - that is a cover letter item.
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@gjacobse said in Resume Critique:
I like the fact that you have thought about listing things like I saved this much... but that is not for the resume - that is a cover letter item.
Why not include in both resume and cover letter?
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@gjacobse said in Resume Critique:
I like the fact that you have thought about listing things like I saved this much... but that is not for the resume - that is a cover letter item.
Nothing is a cover letter item.
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@scottalanmiller said in Resume Critique:
@gjacobse said in Resume Critique:
I like the fact that you have thought about listing things like I saved this much... but that is not for the resume - that is a cover letter item.
Nothing is a cover letter item.
I agree with this. A cover letter is just a waste of your time.
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@eddiejennings said in Resume Critique:
Methinks I'm over-thinking this. As the above explanation would probably be great for the interview when the person asks me to explain what I mean by "Consolidated physical servers into a Hyper-V 2016 virtual environment."
You are. This is a detail. You do not put details on the resume. you put summary and then you talk about the detail in the interview.
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Change the top. The table is horrible.
Don't stress over the Hyper-V stuff. Even if you consolidated one physical server over to a Hyper-V server that was already running, you've still consolidated that server.
Expand on your points. What has consolidation provided to the business? What else have you setup? I'm sure going from 'N' aged servers to 'X' new hosts under support, has helped improve performance and reliability? Have you a second host with Hyper-V replica in place? Mention that...
