17 Dec
2008
17 Dec
'08
8:27 p.m.
On Wednesday 17 December 2008 09:58:08 pm Ethan Dicks wrote:
Well, it's not "employment" per se, it's a service call, but hey, if
it's
the beginning of a good relationship with this company that'll work for me...
Traditional employment in these parts has _not_ been good to me overall. Too
many of the wrong people making the wrong decisions based on incomplete or
erroneous information, combined with me having worked for myself for more of
my adult life than not, has caused me to take a different tack lately.
I have a ways to go before I'll have built up anything I could call viable,
but tomorrow I go 100 miles to do some MB swaps and I have two more on friday
neither one of which is peecee stuff, and it grows from there.
I just found the approach taken by this lady on the phone when setting this up
to be quite refreshing -- I'd put down all sorts of stuff but conspicuously
_not_ the sort of thing that most of the peecee tech crowd seems to excel in,
and it did me good rather than not for a change. I like that. :-)
--
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Roy J. Tellason
<rtellason at verizon.net>
wrote:
> > How
important is FORMAT in a resume?
It's "important" because the marketdroids who are going to receive it,
only know one tool. :-/
> One of my friends got fed up with
headhunters who insisted on MS-WORD
> format resumes - for UNIX admin positions.
Annoying, but I see that all the time. Occasionally, and I mean
occasionally, the jobs I apply for mention that they will take a
textual (unformatted ASCII, lest this prompt a bunch of
back-and-forthing) resume.
I generally figure those are the places with a higher clue factor.
I've been a little bothered by the "non
mainstream" essence of my
background and interests in terms of employment prospects and similar,
until I was just contacted by somebody who observed in my online profile
at one place I posted a decidedly "non-peecee" flavor to things, which
as it turned out was just what they were looking for.
That is exactly the sort of place I'd want to be seeking employment at. A pleasant
turn of events, to be sure!
Yep. Congrats.