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  • I never said to use metrics.

    You got promoted, right? "Demonstrated leadership skills and was quickly promoted to Manager" or something more eloquent.

    I get a lot of mileage in my interviews and resume about becoming team lead of a project just over a year out of school. Employers like that because it demonstrates an exceptional quality, in their eyes. You need to emphasize things that make you stand out, not list things you have done in the past.
    "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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    • Originally posted by MikeH View Post
      Sitting on my ass whacking off to daytime TV and the babe thread on Poly wouldn't count.
      dexterity training, electronics maintenance, and extensive modern art knowledge
      To us, it is the BEAST.

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      • Originally posted by Asher View Post
        Elok, I think you'd be very apt as a programmer or DBA or something tech related. Computers and aspies go together very, very well. It's absurd how many aspies I've worked with.

        The need for order and the analytical mind is a natural fit.
        Yeah, but I can't begin to guess what would be right for me. You named like twelve different categories of "tech person," and I have no experience with most of them. Also, you mentioned just getting certified in a certain language; how quickly do languages go out of style/get replaced by other languages? I mean, I know nobody uses that BASIC I learned anymore, and the HTML I taught myself is just the barest skeleton of the XML of today.

        BTW, thanks a lot for being helpful about this and not doing the douchebag "ha ha, you'll flip burgers forever" bit. I mean that.
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        • You should put your energy into figuring out how to get others to work for you rather than struggling to work for yourself (or be someone's wage-slave).
          To us, it is the BEAST.

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          • XML doesn't replace HTML...HTML is still a hot area, especially if you're really good at things like HTML5/CSS/JS. Simple HTML is kind of worthless, it's the totality of having HTML, CSS, and Javascript (which isn't very hard IMO).

            Languages may come and go, but I would not worry about it. Once you learn one real language, learning subsequent ones is ridiculously easy. I'd consider myself proficient in perhaps a dozen languages at this point, passing familiarity in much more... getting certified in one should last you many, many years. Just know that in tech, you're always learning.

            But it's worth a shot anyway.
            "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
            Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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            • You have some seed money right? Go find some high school kids, unemployed people, or desperate immigrants and pay them a little over minimum wage to cut lawns, do yard work, or shovel snow in the winter. Advertise in a local paper. Get a few regular clients. Do everything in cash.

              Housecleaning services are also a possibility.

              All you need is desperate workers, the money to pay them with, and customers. Do you live around a middle class - upper middle class suburb?
              To us, it is the BEAST.

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              • Originally posted by Sava View Post
                dexterity training, electronics maintenance, and extensive modern art knowledge
                Jon Miller: MikeH speaks the truth
                Jon Miller: MikeH is a shockingly revolting dolt and a masturbatory urine-reeking sideshow freak whose word is as valuable as an aging cow paddy.
                We've got both kinds

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                • Originally posted by DaShi View Post
                  More stuff like this: • Regularly maintained labor costs lower than 15% of sales through scheduling, hiring, and my direct involvement in food production.
                  That one line probably summarises all the employable things about you. Except direct involvement in food production screams flipping burgers.

                  Make it half the resume! Scheduling, and hiring are good management tasks and involve a lot of different skills.

                  eg.

                  Responsible for hiring new employees, writing and advertising job specifications, performing telephone screens and face to face interviews.
                  Performed continuous annual performance reviews and set improvement targets for x employees.
                  Managed weekly shift schedules for x employees.
                  Jon Miller: MikeH speaks the truth
                  Jon Miller: MikeH is a shockingly revolting dolt and a masturbatory urine-reeking sideshow freak whose word is as valuable as an aging cow paddy.
                  We've got both kinds

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                  • Originally posted by MikeH View Post
                    That one line probably summarises all the employable things about you. Except direct involvement in food production screams flipping burgers.

                    Make it half the resume! Scheduling, and hiring are good management tasks and involve a lot of different skills.

                    eg.

                    Responsible for hiring new employees, writing and advertising job specifications, performing telephone screens and face to face interviews.
                    Performed continuous annual performance reviews and set improvement targets for x employees.
                    Managed weekly shift schedules for x employees.

                    Good suggestions IMHO


                    OH and Alby-- I agree with Asher that highlighting that you failed a leadership course isn't exactly a positive in a resume--If you feel you MUST mention it, why not just say something like you were accepted to OCS-- its the truth and its positive on its face ( I am presuming that in any real diligent interview that the details of your OCS experience would likely come out anyway. It happened and in an interview you can spin it all very positively as you sit there looking fit ect etc. But in a resume if I had 100s of applicants and someone is mentioning "injuries", I am half thinking I have a future workers comp claimant possibility.
                    You don't get to 300 losses without being a pretty exceptional goaltender.-- Ben Kenobi speaking of Roberto Luongo

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                    • From what I hear, surviving the ghetto that is Temple University's campus is a bigger achievement than lasting a few weeks at the circle jerk of OCS. Everyone I know who enrolled at Temple has been either shot or mugged or both or worse (in other words, raped).
                      Last edited by Wiglaf; September 24, 2010, 05:04. Reason: By "or worse" I meant "Raped"

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                      • Originally posted by Al B. Sure! View Post
                        No... the fast food biz is big on politeness... It's "Would you like fries with your order?"
                        Like I'd know...I studied a proper degree and, thus, have a decent job. So decent that I don't have to eat in fast food places
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                        • I'm re-writing my resume but I'm trying to come up with things to say that aren't just a job description, particularly for my most recent job.

                          I want to change the "ensuring operational compliance with franchisor directives" to something but I'm not sure how to describe it. Basically, I know to some of you this might sound retarded, but one of my jobs was to be, I want to say primary point guy but I'm not sure what the proper term would be, for one of the national brands that we operated a franchise for. Okay, it was Burger King, but still... I had Burger King GM responsibilities along with all the in-house brands... when the BK (I can't remember his title, he would be the regional guy representing BK corporation to BK franchises in the tri-state area) guy would come through, I was the guy to talk to. I guess it sounds silly and might not be a real accomplishment to some of you but it's still a job that was important... a very lucrative contract, literally worth millions of dollars, was in my hands.

                          Also, how can I emphasize the fact that I was the person in charge of a full kitchen and serving staff on my shift as well as in charge of field locations? See, my title was iffy and changed constantly... I was either a manager or just a supervisor whenever it was most convenient to the people above me... Add in the fact that when someone hears supervisor, they think oh some guy who's just supervising the staff... supervisor doesn't have connotations of me being in charge of my own shift in a fairly large operation (annual sales of over $12 million). You typically don't think of supervisors as guys who are the only managerial representative around to employees, customers, vendors, etc. on my shift.
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                          "I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi

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                          • Is it typical to put your photo on your CV these days?
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                            • Originally posted by Dauphin View Post
                              Is it typical to put your photo on your CV these days?
                              If it accelerates the sleeping with the boss to get promotions angle you're going for, I guess.
                              "Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
                              "I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi

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                              • Originally posted by Dauphin View Post
                                Is it typical to put your photo on your CV these days?
                                For international positions, I think.

                                JM
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