本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛加州的牛人比加拿大多，现在经济不好，很多人失业一年有余。也不知这个经济危机持续多久，好像没有尽头。2006年很多人在加拿大电话面试就拿到美国的offer, 这种日子似乎永远不再有。
Here are some thoughts on resumes:
1)As a recruiter I ask these questions:
1) Where has someone worked
2)What do they do?
3) Where have they studied
4) What skills do they have
5) Where do they live? Your resume should answer these questions for me within a 5 second glance of the resume. Even consultants who have worked with numerous clients in the last 10 years (like myself)
can answer these questions with a clean, simple resume.
2) Always include your name, e-mail address, and telephone on a resume. Do not presume that your resume will remain attached to the e-mail. I probably received 15 resumes that were missing contact information. I prefer that resumes have the contact information written in the body of the text instead of the header/footer in Word. This makes it much easier to copy and paste when I am communicating with my engineer clients
3) Do not send a link to your on-line resume if you expect me to read it. I am pretty good about going out and "fetching" resumes, but this is the easiest way for your resume application to be lost in the shuffle. Perfectly fine if you are passively looking, but if you are doing an active job search, send me a word/PDF/Text resume.
4) Resumes should be at most 2, perhaps three pages in length. Most recruiters in my position do not bother to read past the first page, so whatever important information you have, put it up front and center. It is fine to have an expanded resume if a company asks for it, but keep in mind that neither your average recruiter nor your typical hiring managers will read past the 2nd page in Silicon Valley.
5) If you have written your resume by adding one position on top of the other, I guarantee you have a resume that will repel, rather than attract employers. I have received numerous 10 page resumes listing
consulting assignments going back to 1998. Imagine trying to read through hundreds of these in the course of trying to fill a position! I often can't tell where someone worked, went to school, or what they do after reading these types of resumes.
6) The best candidates I see typically have the simplest resumes. The worst candidates invariably have the longest, most confusing resumes. A typical example - a guy who I hired at Salesforce had 10
years of work experience at BEA & Oracle, a PhD in Computer Science from CalTech, and a one page resume.
7) Experiment - copy and paste your resume into a web browser and mail it to yourself. Try it in text and other formats. This is how the engineering managers will most likely read it on their blackberry/iPhone, etc, so if you have weird formatting issues, I would recommend that you re-write your resume. Fancy fonts, headers/footers, & tables often lead to really bad resume presentation when
you need it most.
8) Keep in mind that most recruiters are buried in resumes right now, and that if you can talk to the recruiter on the phone, this is a REALLY good idea. Many resumes are not even being read by your average corporate recruiter, especially if you applied on-line.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net