Making a resume

[Bread Regal]

How do you make a resume again?

[noyen]

first go to the liqour store and buy/steal some scotch.

we're gonna need that or some cocaine.

what we need here is a false sense of confidence and importance before we even put your name at the top.

[Bread Regal]

But what if I suck so much that cocaine won't even make me confident.

[Order 66]

i would just make shit up. its worked for me

[Bread Regal]

I'm applying for educational content curation/creation jobs everywhere in the US.

Some of them are online companies.

[Bread Regal]

like if i took one C programming course, and just wrote basic windows console programs, is it even worth mentioning on there

[noyen]

well atleast you are trying. some credit in that. i honestly dont know what confidence is anymore. i lost mine completely.

grab someone elses resume and frankenstein it. that has worked for me in the past. and all those templates make it a little easier. i hate writing resumes more than most things. its a hard thing to do especially when youre in the dumps and feeling down on yourself. so i dont know where to start. im in the dumps.

[noyen]

yes. start by overdoing and listing everything you can think of that applies. you can weed it down and edit it later. just starting a list like that of things youve done or can do will start taking shape and then you can embellish where needed.

[D.]

Originally Posted by noyen

what we need here is a false sense of confidence and importance before we even put your name at the top.

realest words ever spoken about a resume

[Order 66]

i think with programming jobs, its more about showing off what you can do. i heard about people who've scored jobs at google by just showcasing what they can do, it didn't matter if they were high school dropouts/burnouts living under an overpass the past ten years or whatever.

i mean i dunno anything about that field but i would just go into the most minute and asinine detail possible about my skillset

[Dead Frequency]

most definitely mention your ability to read people based on astrological assessment. people seeking to fill an opportunity of employment definitely need to put out an air of mysticism.

[Adult Head]

Awards & Recognition

[mxzombie]

have you used LaTeX? any resume looks better in LaTeX. I use this for my resume: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macr...trib/moderncv/

[duovamp]

Originally Posted by Order 66

i would just make shit up. its worked for me

Astronaut: 1996-present

[Bread Regal]

i tried using latex once and it seemed like the learning curve was really steep. the equation editor in OpenOffice suited my needs just fine at the time so i didn't give it another look.

a couple of these positions require cover letters with examples of good and bad problems, so I was just going to use OpenOffice for that. Would you suggest otherwise?

[Lucky Day Spa]

from the perspective of someone who reads a lot of CVs: you'll do better if yours seems like it's written for the role. most applicants just infodump – someone going through a pile of applications doesn't want that. they want relevant information.

by all means mention that you've done some programming or whatever – the more skills you have, the better – but push it to the back. give the most space to the areas that best qualify you for the position. if you submit a cover letter, use that to demonstrate that you understand the position and optimise your CV around proving that.

(if you're applying for roles where there is a very small pool of candidates, on the other hand, don't worry about your CV so much. you're better off optimising for the interview stage)

[Ryan9]

I like to start my work experience section by listing the the job I'm applying for and putting the date of the interview as the start date.

It just shows confidence.