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12/19 Sigh... more resume help for motd readers: you may have graduated with a 3.918/4.0 but your resume sucks. No one wants to read prose. Keep it to simple bullet points. Each job posting online will get roughly 400 resumes. No one reads full sentences. Make it easy for the reader. You get about 0.75 seconds to convince someone to skim the rest of your resume. Harsh? Yes, but true. Cut out all that crap and try again. \_ ...and you want help people with 4.0 gpa's who somehow make it all the way through college with no communication skills or common sense why? fuck them. if they can't communicate well enough to tell you why you should hire them they probably aren't useful to you. \_ most EECS majors probably meet this description \_ http://xmlresume.sourceforge.net Won't help much with the brevity problem, but possibly useful. \_ GPA is irrelevant after X number of years in the industry. RIGHT? \_ That X is probably 10 years. If you're a newgrad or with 5-7 years experience, I do look at GPA if I have 10 people who are equally good at coding. If two people both are good at solving problems and one has a high GPA and the other has a low GPA, which one would you hire? GPA tells me that the person is more responsible and disciplined. Skills are the most important quality of course. But all else being equal, high GPA wins. \_ X=10? I stopped putting that crap on my resume after four years and emphasized references, work experience, and projects. Much better indicators of how you'll do at the job. \_ I agree with the above. X=10 is silly. After 10 years if you ask me my gpa after seeing TEN YEARS of work experience and think what I did as a child somehow matters TEN YEARS later then I'll happily keep looking because working for such an inflexible and thoughtless PHB would suck big time. |
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xmlresume.sourceforge.net Project Page 10 License 11 The DTD 12 Help Forum 13 General Chat 14 Report Bug 15 Request Feature 16 SourceForge Logo What is it? The XML Rsum Library is an XML and XSL based system for marking up, adding metadata to, and formatting rsums and curricula vitae. It consists of these components: * An XML Document Type Definition (DTD) for describing rsums. Applications * Rsum production: produce web and print rsums from a single source file. June 1992-August 1998 Oversaw production of large magnets and rocket skates for a single customer. Or this PDF: Screenshot of PDF output Or this plain text: Manager Acme, Inc. June 1992-August 1998 Oversaw production of large magnets and rocket skates for a *single* customer. Among the new features: ORC: The Online Resume Converter. A great way to convert your resume if you can't install the required software on your own machine. For developers, this is also a great way to get feedback on what people are actually seeing when they convert their resume. Or exchange resumes and curriculae vitae in XML format in B2B style. |