Re: [tlug] [OT] Good IT Resume

[Mattia Dongili <malattia@example.com>]

Hi Pietro,

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 03:39:29PM +0900, Pietro Zuco wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I just would like to share opinions and points of view from the people
> in the list about how to make a good IT resume.
>
> There are many examples in the web, but very few that help to make an
> IT English resume to work in Japan.

My job seeking experience in Japan is very recent, my CV is available
online and it's quite close to the layout you gave below:
http://www.linux.it/~malattia/wiki/index.php/Curriculum_Vitae
and here http://www.linux.it/~malattia/docs/ the wiki layout is a bit
nicer that the official doc :)
I've been trying to make it better over the years, it may still suck but
reality is that thanks to that I've been doing interviews *outside* of
Italy for many years and now I have a job :)

...
> <CV>
...
> </CV>
>
> I put an extra amount of technical stuff in the projects description.
> I did mainly system admin projects. Now I'm thinking about that maybe
> a lot of tech info can confuse the HR that have to understand what do
> I know.

Yes, that was my perception, people tend to get bored by excessively
detailed descriptions.

> What do you think? Detailed information is better than resumed one?

they key is to put *enough* information but not too much (you're italian
so you know what "q.b." stands for). People reading your CV will be:
- HR depts.: they don't give a shit about too many details, they whant
  to see job-marketing pompous stuff
- hiring managers that have tech skills: they know what Apache (or
  whatever) is or how a project is driver and you don't need to spend
  too many words for them.

At this point you'll be contacted for an interview and you'll basically
have to put reasoning on what you wrote, so don't forget to list stuff
you found interesting and that you *want* to talk about.
Job descriptions have to give a raw idea of what your duties were, the
key points of your participation in a project and little more.

> Then, how to fit collaborations? Articles, free software projects, and so 
> forth?

"Other relevant experience" after the jobs listing.

> And what about all the amount of job that do not fit to any project
> format but that anyway is job that generate a lot of working
> experience?

same, that's meant to be a list of stuff that is somewhat separated from
your official professional experience but that's important to give a
better idea of what your interests and skills are.

cheers from the hot italian summer (42C today... argh)
-- 
mattia
:wq!