Archive for February, 2008
Resume Redux – What Do Hiring Managers Think of Your Resume?
Even if you manage to get to an interview, an engineering hiring manager isn’t going to give you an appraisal of your resume. Your friends and family are somewhat less than objective. Your work colleagues are probably not the ones you want to trust with brushing up your resume, either.
A little while ago, I started giving a few candidates with awful resumes, some pointers pro bono. They committed some cardinal sins in my book, yet clearly they believed they had a sharp resume. They were tripping all my yellow and red flags, and with just a few changes, they might have made interview instead of the express lane to the reject pile.
But it takes time to do that properly. And I can only really offer help to those in the software engineering space. I’m VP Engineering at Earth Class Mail, and actively recruiting at the moment. But I decided that I’d carry on offering the service to a few people each month, and created Resume Redux. I personally do the review either just on your resume, or in the context of the job you are applying for. And I’ll help on all levels, from experienced VP’s and Directors to entry level positions.
Are you getting all the interviews you could? Or are you inadvertently setting off my alarm bells?
www.ResumeRedux.com