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Title: Association of Information Technology Professionals


1
Association of Information Technology
Professionals
  • September 6, 2007

2
Resume
  • Next week Resume Center starts 1st floor
  • http//www.emurse.com
  • Jon Sturm

3
How to build a great Resume
  • 1st step to marketing your self
  • Concisely worded and achievement oriented
  • Key skills and experience first
  • Print on heavy resume paper Brilliant white,
    ivory, or off white.
  • 1-2 pages 1 page preferred - if you have less
    than 10 years' work experience, you should only
    need a one page resume.

4
Personal Information
  • Name
  • Address
  • Phone number
  • Formal Email - not your WOW or CS screen name
    email address CTsniper007_at_hacker.com Or
    OrcKiller1000_at_torrents.com

5
Profile
  • Your profile should be a carefully worded
    summary, two or three sentences in length, of
    your key areas of experience (including the
    number of years' relevant experience), your
    principal skills and abilities and perhaps an
    indication of your career aspirations.

6
Education
  • List the college/university name, city, state,
    your degree, major, concentration, and graduation
    date by month and year. List your most recent
    college first. Under the education section, you
    may include information about
  • Courses relevant to the type of job you are
    seeking
  • Class projects (including projects,
    presentations, reports, and research)
  • GPA if over 3.0 (major GPA and/or overall GPA)
  • Academic honors, Dean's List, and scholarships
  • Research, senior projects, or thesis
  • Professional training, overseas study programs,
    certificates and licenses
  • Computer skills (give specific names of systems
    and programs)
  • Languages (indicate skill level conversational,
    intermediate, advanced, fluent)

7
Experience
  • List your career-related experience, including
    full-time or part-time jobs, summer jobs,
    volunteer experience, cooperative education, and
    internships. You may include experiences
    unrelated to your career area if you focus your
    job description on transferable skills, such as
    customer service, communication, problem solving,
    project management, teamwork, and leadership
    skills. You do not need to list every job you
    have held. The descriptions for your relevant
    experiences should be longer than those not
    directly related to the work you are seeking.
    Highlight your skills and accomplishments.

8
Experience 2
  • Use KEY WORD nouns to indicate your skills and
    experience, such as strategic planning, customer
    service, BA, MBA, GIS, Java, HTML, web page
    design, systems analyst, manager, robotics,
    calculus, project management, research, problem
    solving, team leader, etc.
  • Use verbs like advise, analyze, appraise, audit,
    consolidate, coordinate, decrease, direct,
    evaluate, facilitate, forecast, implement,
    initiate, manage, negotiate, persuade, etc.
  • List your job title, the employer's name, city,
    state, and dates of employment by month and year.
    Avoid writing in full sentences and leave out
    pronouns (I, me, my). Write your job descriptions
    in short concise phrases in a paragraph format.

9
Example of job description short phrases
  • Demonstrate knowledge of object oriented design
    and formal development methodology. Extensive
    experience with C, Delphi, networking (Novell,
    NT) and HTML web page design. Develop and support
    internal client server 3 tier model systems.
  • Develop and maintain computer programs that
    support internal and external audit work.
    Evaluate accounting processing controls within
    data processing and data conversion functions.
    Audit security controls and data storage
    procedures.

10
Additional Information
  • You may include a variety of activities and
    additional types of information on your resume,
    such as those listed here. Focus on positions you
    held, your level of involvement, accomplishments,
    projects, demonstrated leadership roles,
    committee work, communication skills,
    organizational skills, and any skills related to
    your stated career objective.
  • Campus/student organizations
  • Community service
  • Volunteer experience
  • Team and group projects
  • Computer skills
  • Publications
  • Foreign languages
  • Leadership roles
  • Professional membership

11
Resume Keywords
  • With online resume databases and thousands of
    resumes pouring in via email, many HR departments
    now perform keyword searches to weed through
    these submissions.
  • This means you need to make sure your resume
    includes relevant keywords to the industry you're
    in or it may be overlooked.
  • First, make sure you include the keywords from
    the job listing you're applying to!
  • To find other appropriate keywords, study job
    postings for your field. Chances are the keywords
    you see cropping up in these ads are also what
    employers search for.
  • Other sources for industry keywords
  • Employer websites
  • Industry-affiliated websites
  • Messageboards and forums about your career sector
  • Government job descriptions like Occupational
    Outlook Handbook
  • Only list keywords that apply to you.
  • Only use words for skills you actually have.
  • Do not load your resume with multiple keywords
    saying the same thing it may help you make it
    through a database search, but when a human sees
    the keyword-loaded resume she will immediately
    put it in the garbage.

12
10 things to leave out
  • 1. Photos
  • The only people who need to include photos in
    their CVs are models and performers.
  • 2. Any sort of failure
  • This covers exams, marriages, businesses, etc.
  • 3. Every vacation and Saturday job you've ever
    had
  • Some of these may be relevant while you're
    looking for your first job, but after that
    they're meaningless. This doesn't apply to solid
    work experience breaks.
  • 4. The words 'I', 'he' or 'she'
  • Your CV should normally be written in the first
    person ('I'), but you never actually need to
    write 'I' in a CV. Some people used to write
    their CV in the third person ('he' or 'she').
    Again, you don't need to include the 'he' or
    'she'.
  • 5. References
  • These needn't be mentioned in your CV. Don't
    include names, addresses, emails and phone
    numbers. The phrase "References are available
    upon request" should be left out too.
  • 6. Reasons for leaving each job
  • These are often negative points and leave you
    open to being misunderstood.
  • 7. List of all your schools
  • This isn't necessary or of any interest to the
    employer. But do include your most recent
    educational establishment.
  • 8. Salary information
  • This can only be used to reject your
    application. If an advertisement specifically
    requests this information, you can always include
    it in your cover letter.
  • 9. Patterns, borders and graphics
  • These give your CV a cluttered appearance.
    Besides, what you think is tasteful may not be to
    the liking of the employer.
  • 10. Binders and folders

13
10 more things to leave out
  • 1. Lists of publications
  • If you're a scientist or academic, include these
    only if they are asked for. However, significant
    publications may be included as achievements.
  • 2. Very personal information
  • Don't include your age (although your date of
    birth is OK), weight, height, health, sex, race
    or marital status. It's irrelevant and some facts
    could be used in a discriminatory way.
  • 3. Jargon and abbreviations
  • Avoid using any information that won't be
    understood by someone outside your job or
    organisation. The exceptions to this are
    abbreviations recognised industry-wide.
  • 4. Poor photocopies
  • Always use good original laser prints. Poor
    quality copies suggest you're sending the CV out
    to lots of companies because you're desperate.
  • 5. Mistakes and typos
  • Always check your CV for incorrect spellings and
    factual errors. Then check it again. Then ask
    someone else to check it. Errors make you look
    careless and disorganised.
  • 6. Excessive wordiness
  • This is a working document, so keep it factual
    and don't go over the top with conversational
    descriptions.
  • 7. Negatives
  • Don't be apologetic over what you believe may be
    missing from your CV. Focus on your positive
    attributes.
  • 8. Irrelevancies
  • Don't include your gap year travel history,
    previous managers' names, the middle name that
    you never use, etc.
  • 9. Cheap paper
  • If you post a printed copy of your CV or you
    take a copy of your CV to an interview make sure
    your CV is printed on good quality paper. This
    will make your application stand out and it costs
    very little to buy quality paper.
  • 10. Exaggerations

14
Sample Resumes
  • http//www.bestsampleresume.com/programmer-resumes
    .html
  • http//www.bestsampleresume.com/technology-resumes
    .html
  • http//www.bestsampleresume.com/it-resume.html

15
Jin Kang with a Quck tour of Linksys DD-WRT
Firmware
16
More serious side of AITP
  • Microsoft oFone
  • Google Earth easter egg
  • I can fly
  • Acer/Gateway
  • 802.11n
  • Touch Screen iPod
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