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Re: Getting Hired...Opinion #2500

Subject: Re: Getting Hired...Opinion #2500
From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: "Ned Bedinger" <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:48:43 -0800


----- Original Message ----- From: "Ned Bedinger" <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>

OK, check me on this scenario:

You publish the job order and a recruiter copies me on the description, which says 1-2 years IT experience writing training material.

I can't really address this exact scenario, because I wouldn't write a job description that was that vague, but assuming that
I wrote one of my usual descriptions that listed the 1-2 years
as one of the most important requirements, your 5-page
resume and the other candidate's shorter resume would both
likely get the same attention during my initial skim through
my stack of resumes (say about 30 seconds). If her resume
is 2 pages long, each page will get about 15 seconds of my
attention; depending on how your resume reads, either the
first page or two will each get those 15 seconds and I will
make a decision based on them without getting to pages 3-5 or if nothing on pages 1 or 2 grabs me, each of the 5
pages will get about a 5-second scan.

If I am reading this thread correctly, I think you'll discard my resume and hire the ex-army writer. Your advice to me would be to pick a different cross-sectional view of my experience and make my resume totally readable at a long glance, right?
I hate to say it, because I think the advice is business-like, but this makes me feel like I'm chasing butterflies, or being reorg'd. Tell me again why my resume isn't OK at 5 pages? Is it too fiddly paging back and forth from cover letter to resume? Or generally not considerate enough of the other demands on your time and attention? For me, this is a challenge, putting myself in your shoes....

If the first 2 pages got me, you spent a lot of time on the
rest for nothing. If not, what are the chances that I will
glean enough from 5 seconds on each page to get a good
impression of you? Worse, what is the chance that I (or
someone else) will see this resume and wonder, if this is
what we get in response to a short and narrowly targeted
job description, what will we get from this person when we want a short and narrowly targeted document?

Gene Kim-Eng
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Re: Getting Hired...Opinion #2500: From: Mary Arrotti
Re: Getting Hired...Opinion #2500: From: Ned Bedinger
Re: Getting Hired...Opinion #2500: From: Gene Kim-Eng
Re: Getting Hired...Opinion #2500: From: Ned Bedinger

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