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Well I think that went pretty well, I communicated lots of passion and interest in what they do and that I'm not a moron and I want to learn about all sorts of stuff they do. They may be considering me for two positions now instead of one. I dunno. They both sound cool as gently caress so whatevs 
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Xeom posted:Here is my latest resume, could I please get some critique? If you're applying to places where they'll understand the first half of the page, I don't think you need to include the things you have under work experience. If you're not, the first half of the page is complete gibberish to the layman... Your project descriptions sound like abstracts.
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Agreed. Get rid of the work experience, it doesn't add anything helpful. Try to elaborate a bit more on your research experience, what kind of presentations did you give?
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Is the fact that they read like abstracts good  ? I am trying to get a job as a process engineer, not go to grad school. Ill expand on my research and add an additional project to make up for the removal of the work experience section.
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Xeom posted:Here is my latest resume, could I please get some critique? If you upload that as a document I can provide a detailed critique.
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I posted this in the Retail thread, but I saw this thread and thought maybe it would go better here. I'm trying to update my resume and I'd like some advice about my situation. I recently quit my retail job where my actual job title was "cashier" but they had me doing a lot more than that. I always worked in the electronics department and had all the keys to not only the cases of games and consoles, but the whole building. I had free reign of the department and very detailed knowledge of the games, consoles, and policies regarding electronic items. Sometimes even managers would ask me refund policy questions or for me to open a door for them with my keys. It was put on me to "supervise" the department as far as helping people on the sales floor, answering questions, getting items out of cases, and then ringing up the items. Someone mentioned to me that that makes me a "Keyholder" because I had a set of keys to every door in the building (including the money room even though I wasn't really supposed to go in there.) and had extra responsibilities from the "normal" cashiers who stood at the register and couldn't walk around the floor and freely help guests. The managers gave me a huge amount of trust and autonomy. I did not have any opening or closing responsibilities like locking doors or counting tills, other than just making sure the electronics dept. cases were locked up. I didn't get paid any more than the other cashiers and as I said, my job title wasn't anything more. That was the biggest reason I quit. I asked several times to go either go full-time or get a raise and I was told no. So what can/should I put on my resume? My feeling is that I was just a cashier plus other responsibilities. A manager at Gamestop recommended to me that I apply online as a keyholder to improve my chances of hire. Is that lying? What are the repercussions of lying (or telling half-truths) on an application or resume and saying I was a Keyholder? Thanks for any input. Buggiezor fucked around with this message at 00:36 on May 14, 2014 |
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May 14, 2014 00:33
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Xeom posted:I am trying to get a job as a process engineer Being a process engineer has very little to do with whatever research you've done in undergrad and much more with your ability to communicate between R&D, manufacturing, quality, and sometimes even sales with significant tolerance for agony and the ability to work inhuman hours. Not saying don't do it, just realize what you're signing up for. The pay IS really good though.
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DustingDuvet posted:If you upload that as a document I can provide a detailed critique. Hope you don't mind that I updated it a bit with the recommendations people gave me. seacat posted:Think long and hard. Are you willing to be on call literally 24/7/365? I mean I did study to be a chemical engineer  . I would like to do process control engineering, but I need to start somewhere. My research was just generic research I did at my community college to do something. I'm not that really interested in doing organic synthesis. Open to recommendations on what other thing to apply to. Xeom fucked around with this message at 03:19 on May 14, 2014 |
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This is kind of obvious but merits saying anyway because it's really helpful: Do you have any friends from in your major who got jobs? If you do, look at their company. See if there's anything that sounds interesting. If there is, apply. Being able to say "heard about from _____" seems to do a lot to get your resume into the "actually considered for more than a second" pile (especially if ____ is a smart person and will say good things about you if asked). I've managed an interview from like, one blind application where I didn't know anybody ever. e: I mean you're a super recent grad so this may be less useful right now, but a few of my friends managed it out of the box as it were and have done a lot to help the rest of us. Other than that, just look around at companies. Seriously look around at random and just see if anyone does anything neat. Apply if there's any drat neat thing that sounds like it uses one or more skills you have. That enthusiasm will come through in your cover letter and if there's one thing the people reading these things like it's somebody who sounds interested rather than like somebody who wants a job. Shugojin fucked around with this message at 03:26 on May 14, 2014 |
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May 14, 2014 03:20
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Xeom posted:https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7CJULIN0qqPd3gxeUYtWUlhcW8/edit?usp=sharing You have some good info here, it just needs to be tightened up and organized and presented a bit better. Here are some very basic ideas to help. Good luck! 
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Help is this a good cover letter????quote:Dear Hiring recruiter, I'm trying to tailor it to this job posting: quote:Product Development Specialist- Provide technical assistance, guidance and troubleshooting for New Product Development and manufacturing start up I only included the chocolate sauce thing in my cover letter because of the chocolate industry "requirement." I don't have 5 years product Development experience but I mean i do have 3 years Food processing technology experience. This is like a literal dream job, help 
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A few edits for things I spotted... it's all related to grammar. I think you should ask others to proofread it for you because I doubt I caught everything. Since this is for a specific job posting, I think you immediately say why you are a good fit for the job. Don't start talking about your background, just jump out and say how you match the position they're advertising. "I am applying for the [job name] position at [employer]. I am a good fit for this position because..." This follows the guidance in this thread's OP. Also, your contact information shouldn't be in the body of the cover letter. Instead, it should be on the letterhead of your cover letter. If you're using Microsoft Word, there should be some templates for you to look at that will show you where to put your contact info. quote:Dear Hiring recruiter, Uranium 235 fucked around with this message at 16:32 on May 14, 2014 |
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Someone convince me that I'm good enough to apply for these jobs at SpaceX. Because... wow. Those jobs exist. That's dream job territory.
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the posted:Someone convince me that I'm good enough to apply for these jobs at SpaceX. Because... wow. Those jobs exist. That's dream job territory. the posted:Someone convince me that I'm good enough to apply for these jobs at SpaceX. Because... wow. Those jobs exist. That's dream job territory. I want my bro to work in the aerospace industry oh man I would be beside myself.
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the posted:Someone convince me that I'm good enough to apply for these jobs at SpaceX. Because... wow. Those jobs exist. That's dream job territory. Go ahead and apply, but the rocket launching community is relatively small and more than a little incestuous. It's a hard industry to break in to.
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So, I've gone through the SpaceX list I posted earlier. And I've found about 10-12 jobs that I'm both interested in and I think I (somewhat) qualify for. They say on their website that they'd like for me to apply to only 3 positions. How do I go about trimming this list down to the 3 jobs that I have the best chance of getting? the fucked around with this message at 20:43 on May 14, 2014 |
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Should a person go out of their way to warn a prospective employer, during the interview phase, that they are going to need about 4-6 weeks of medical leave in the near future? I intend to apply for a job that's a rare opportunity, it'd be entry level in a field I want to move to, and the people I'd be working with already know me from my current desk job with the same employer. So we have preexisting relationships. My head tells me I'd be shooting myself in the foot, but my conscience tells me that's a terrible thing to drop on someone after they're offering you a job, and that it might hurt relations.
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Busy Bee posted:I have a 4 hour interview with 3 different managers and supervisors next week. Would having a note pad out in front of me, taking notes during the interview be something that would be frowned upon? As for the other question: Read the original post posted:Tell me some of your weaknesses.
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Remy Marathe posted:Should a person go out of their way to warn a prospective employer, during the interview phase, that they are going to need about 4-6 weeks of medical leave in the near future? Yeeeeeah, you might want to keep that to yourself. Depending on where you are, they might not legally be allowed to discriminate against you for that, but this is a process where "He smelled bad" is good enough of a reason not to hire someone so... Ideally, you'll want to time it so the medical leave happens after any probation period, after your benefits have kicked in. I'd check with HR what the policy is for benefit / probation for internal transfers, if your move would count as that.
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Thanks for that, it hadn't crossed my mind yet that switching departments might put me back in the probationary phase. I suspect not, but I'm going to contact HR and make sure. At what point WOULD you tell them then? I mean I get that it can burn me beforehand regardless of FMLA, whereas they'd have no legal recourse after being hired (if I'm still on career status). But Hey thanks for the job, by the way I need to leave for a month to take care of someone might burn some bridges right off the bat, bridges I might otherwise need later.
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Depends on if you're a new hire or a transfer. My gut feeling is "as late as possible", but there's no way around the touchyness.
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Remy Marathe posted:Thanks for that, it hadn't crossed my mind yet that switching departments might put me back in the probationary phase. I suspect not, but I'm going to contact HR and make sure.
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Quick question guys. When writing a cover letter is it essential to address it to the hiring manager? Also how do you find out who the hiring manager(s) is(are) in some of these bigger companies, or hell even the smaller companies?
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Xeom posted:Quick question guys. When writing a cover letter is it essential to address it to the hiring manager? "Dear Hiring Manager" is perfectly fine. It sounds a little weird but anyone who has a problem with that is nuts. Honestly, I'd be a little bit worried if someone spent some insane amount of effort trying to track down my name for their cover letter and I don't think I'm the only one. If you do know their name, generally Mr/Ms X is good to be safe, although 95% of people, even the older crowd, are perfectly fine on a first name basis (in my industry, maybe in more stuffy formal industries it's different). If they have a doctorate you better go with Dr. X.
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I've got a bit of a weird question... I'm in the process of updating my resume, and I'm not sure how to list my current job under work experience. I basically have two jobs simultaneously from the same employer. I am the property manager of a large office building, handling lease renewals, arranging repairs etc. for the various office tenants. I also manage the daily operations of a business within the same building. My employer owns the building as a whole, and also owns the business that I manage day-to-day. Both jobs come with completely different responsibilities. Will it look weird if I split both jobs out into separate listings, as the duration of my employment will be the same date range as each other? Would it be better if I combine them into one? If it matters, I only get one paycheque, so on paper I guess they could be considered one mega job. I'm just not really sure the best way to communicate this on my resume.
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Could someone please take a look at my resume? https://www.dropbox.com/s/dyub97namtjsuvu/Education%20Resume%20Edit.doc I've been trying to get out of Administrative Assistant hell and get a job more in line with my interests and the very expensive Masters degree I just got last year: in other words, applying for positions at museums/historical societies/libraries/etc that are not office/admin roles. I've only applied to a few places so far, but haven't gotten so much as a nibble from any of them, even for ones where I fit their requirements really closely (basically: "Do you have a Masters and two functioning brain cells? Y/N.") and thought I'd at least get an interview.  Please excuse the weirdness in my job experience bullet points-I work in a place that runs several programs unique to us and I don't want to give away where I work, so obviously the formatting and names are different in my real resume. I shuffle around the experience bullet points depending on what a particular posting asks for and I've tried to frame my points so they focus on numbers and accomplishments instead of just duties, but I feel like I might be reaching or unclear sometimes. Education's on top since I'm applying to positions where that's more important than my (mostly non-related) work experience: I do work in a museum of sorts now, but it's in a field completely unrelated to history. Please tell me all the ways this resume sucks and how I'm doing it wrong. I want at least a few interviews, drat it.
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Liffrea posted:Please tell me all the ways this resume sucks and how I'm doing it wrong. I want at least a few interviews, drat it. This is your lucky night. I hope this helps as a starting point. 
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Busy Bee posted:Received an email from my recruiter less than 24 hours after my interview. The email was titled "Interview Feedback" and within the email she was saying she has been trying to get a hold of me all day but my number is not working. I replied and gave her my correct cell but I'm assuming she is out of the office now. Is this good news or bad news? I believe I did very well in the interview but am worried she is trying to call me to tell me that I didn't get the position. What do you think? I know I'm looking too much into it but I need some sort of piece of mind if I am not able to talk to her until next week on Monday! This is my dream job and I've been working so hard to get it! I'm no recruiter, but in my experience, people will hurry to tell you you're a good fit and wait to tell you that you're not (in case absolutely nobody else applies and they have to give it to you).
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Let's see how well this goes. https://www.dropbox.com/s/8plfbow1x1fy2im/goon%20version.doc Working on updating my resume, and want some goon opinions. I've been staring at it and tweaking it every day for the last week going through revisions, and I honestly can't tell how it is anymore, so need some outside opinions. I've already sent it to people I know, but most of them fall into the "good natured friends" category, rather then people who know what they are doing. I realize my experience isn't as exciting as most of the resumes in this thread, but I'm trying to avoid getting into another mcjob, and instead getting back into the high quality/third wave coffee business again, since it's competitive and pays well enough to get me through college ( $15-$20 an hour avg ). These positions are much pickier then mcjobs are, which is why I want to make sure this thing is perfect before sending it out. Couple upfront things I'm trying to figure out are whether or not I want to start with a paragraph or bullet points, how to better write "successful manager of an underperforming store" ( and turned it around ), and how to handle the accomplishments/actual skills mix. As it is now, I have my main accomplishment ( taking a training store that management considered dead, and making it profitable ) in the first paragraph, and my general skills ( I can make microfoam/use a semiauto machine/I can train people ) in the specific jobs category. I feel like my experience is a bit spread out between the two sections, and I'm curious if I'm just going crazy, or if I should try to consolidate them a bit. And sorry for how terrible it/this post is. English isn't my native language, and this is my first real resume so I imagine it's real bad. Also just throwing this out there, the main reason I'm adding machine/microfoam is they tend to matter. Coffee breaks down into auto/semiauto/manual, and it's the difference between knowing different programming languages. I'm basically saying I know Java rather then C++ I guess, if that's an analogy to make. Being able to make microfoam requires quite a bit of skill, and most baristas can't pull it off, so it's a bit more dickwavey then it actually looks to people outside of coffee. I'm really trying to make this resume ( and cover letters ) focused on how much of a good fit I am for artisanal third wave coffee shops, and not much else, so I imagine the people reading this will know what I mean by it.
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Phoneposting so I can't look at your resume, but from talking to the barista at Stumptown's siphon bar in NY and asking how he got the job I can say this: Your cover letter is really gonna matter here, maybe more than elsewhere. Convey passion for coffee. He said he didn't know poo poo about third wave brewing at the time he applied but wrote a cover letter that talked all about how he loved coffee and was excited for all this stuff.
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Rookersh posted:Let's see how well this goes. https://www.dropbox.com/s/8plfbow1x1fy2im/goon%20version.doc - Remove "Professional". just call it Skills and Experience. If you can cut a word out, cut it out. - Your skills section contains no skills, just a vague summary of what you did. - As a hiring manager I would be extremely interested at what you did at an underperforming store (assuming that's the truth). Whether you're a barista or COO of a $20m/day manufacturing plant, underperforming businesses are some of the hardest places to run/work in and especially turn around. What specificly did you do to make it profitable? Hiring managers will drool over that. - Remove stuff like "highly proficient" and "integral part". There's no way I know that stuff is true. Sure it might be, but when I read resumes I just gloss over buzzwords like that. Replace it PROOF of how you're highly proficient and an integral part of the team (e.g. "only team member to be able to stripdown and rebuild Xyz coffee machine" - Your third McJob description provides nothing useful besides that you managed to keep a job. It's all vague resumespeak which is a big part of why people don't get interview calls. Yes, I'm sure you provided quality customer service in a fast paced environment, that's what McD's is like. What did you do differently from your coworkers that sets you apart? What degree did you get? What kind of job are you applying for?
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Seacat posted:Your skills section contains no skills, just a vague summary of what you did. Yeah, I'm torn between putting my accomplishment there ( turning around the store ) as it's upfront, or just bulletpointing what skills I have ( foam, machinework, training, etc ). I've been wanting to switch them, so I guess this is a good time. Would it be better to bulletpoint them, or leave it as a paragraph? Seacat posted:As a hiring manager I would be extremely interested at what you did at an underperforming store (assuming that's the truth). Whether you're a barista or COO of a $20m/day manufacturing plant, underperforming businesses are some of the hardest places to run/work in and especially turn around. What specificly did you do to make it profitable? Hiring managers will drool over that. I thought it was actually in there. The old manager was buying stupid amounts of stock that never sold, left on abrasive baristas who turned customers away, and refused to do anything to update the store. I got in there and started doing stock every week, cut back on the things that didn't sell, got all the lovely baristas sent off to other stores ( I didn't have firing power ), and actually started working with the community ( sales, fixing things they complained about, being charismatic ) to bring in more customers per week. Between our customer base doubling over the course of a few months, plus the fact we weren't burning a couple thousand on waste each month, the store became profitable. I couldn't figure out a way to mention getting rid of lovely baristas without badmouthing the store, so I just left it as "cultivated a stronger relationship with suppliers/maybe customers;making the store efficient and profitable". I also don't know the exact numbers because I wasn't the one doing numbers. All I was told is that I made the store profitable, we had double the customer base, and our stock costs went down by a few thousand. Seacat posted:Your third McJob description provides nothing useful besides that you managed to keep a job. It's all vague resumespeak which is a big part of why people don't get interview calls. Yes, I'm sure you provided quality customer service in a fast paced environment, that's what McD's is like. What did you do differently from your coworkers that sets you apart? The problem is I didn't do anything to set me apart there. It was a lovely mcjob that I worked register at for a year before I decided I needed to do something new with my life. It's literally only there to say I've got an added year of customer service. I realize anybody who looked at it would glaze over it, I was just hoping that'd be fine, and they'd mainly be caring about the strength of the other two sections/accomplishment to get me the job, realizing that it was just there for the year of experience. Seacat posted:What kind of job are you applying for? I honestly don't care about being a lead/manager again. I'm not that picky, and it's not that much more exciting then being a barista. I just want to work in a high quality shop that focuses on the coffee again. Rookersh fucked around with this message at 15:08 on May 17, 2014 |
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Also I figured I could get some resume feedback as well, not gonna hurt anything. It's actually formatted using LaTeX and some fancy two-column jazz so it looks like this but here is a mostly unformatted infodump version so DustingDuvet can do that thing he does.
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Bisty Q. posted:A horrendous gimmick that I would just throw out without reading because my job descriptions are more complicated than 3 lines. If you're applying for very simple jobs, I guess it would work. Disagree. This is a great format for constructing a non-generic cover letter that indicates to the recruiter that you have above-average reading comprehension skills. On a related note, Lazlo Bock (google him) put some helpful tips in a recent NYT interview: quote:How do you write a good résumé?
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Sarcasmatron posted:Disagree. You don't need to quote my job description back to me. I know what I'm looking for. Building a gimmicky-formatted cover letter that can, at best, address 4-5 elements of the job description, is inferior to prose that can address more of them because you're not wasting room with formatting or repeating part of the job ad back to me. I do this for a living. For professional jobs, these are inferior to traditional letters. Your quotes are unrelated; Bock's talking about quantifying accomplishments (which I suggest) and using a modified-STAR method to answer interview questions (which I also suggest, both in the OP.)
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I got an interview for a job this week with 5 different people for 30 minutes each (10-12:30). 30 minutes seems like a really short time to get any good dialogue going when considering people have to be ready, going in and out of offices (it's a huge campus), and things coming up delaying things a few minuets or more. Are 30 minute interviews normal? I haven't done an interview in about 4 years and this is my second one. The first one was also a 5 person interview in which it lasted from 10-4:30 with an hour lunch. Each person's interview ran longer than the designated 45 minutes.
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I've been reading though the entire thread, thanks to everyone for such helpful insight into the résumé writing process! If anyone wouldn't mind taking a look at what I'm working with, it would be much appreciated! https://www.dropbox.com/s/jssmsmln33y16nw/Goon%20resume.docx Whatever job I apply for would likely be in lines with what I'm doing now, and since I've only had one job out of college that's really all I had to write about in my résumé. I'm not actively pursuing a job at this very moment, but I'm considering moving to Washington DC from Indiana and thought I'd better have my résumé up to date sooner than later. I was hoping to have something lined up job-wise before making the move, but it sounds like that might be an issue if whatever company ends up expressing interest discovers I currently live 9 hours away. I've seen recommendations abound this in the thread, but I don't think my paltry 3 years of experience will make me attractive enough for a company to give me an offer without already having my feet on the ground in DC. Any thoughts on how to handle this? My best friend lives out there so I could list her address if it would help. Millions fucked around with this message at 20:25 on May 19, 2014 |
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