[thelist] Resume / Portfolio Review

[Christian Heilmann]

On 8/7/05, M. Seyon <evoltlist at delime.com> wrote:
> Message from Paul Waring (8/7/2005 11:40 AM)
> 
> >On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 06:38:17PM +0300, Hershel Robinson wrote:
> > > If anyone has a moment, could you have a peek at my portfolio and resume:
> > >
> > > http://galleryrobinson.com/web/
> >
> >For your comment on Scarab Books, I would never advise describing anything
> >to do with a client as "boring and unprofessional"
> 
> Good advice. Possibly you could ask permission to display a screenshot of
> the previous site along with your new design, and let visitors draw their
> own conclusions.
> 
> Or failing that, describe specific functionality that you developed that
> did not exist before, and again, leave it to the visitors to read between
> the lines.

Resumes are about what you have done, and should be succinct and
impersonal, not a list of "I have, I do, I am and I did". I am :-)
currently hiring people and do spend about 10 minutes scanning the
resume before giving the person a call. Yours gives me the impression
that you want to wow me with all the things you have done instead of
telling me what you are good at and what you are looking for.

As for advertising XHTML: I would be very sure to practise what I
preach  especially on a portfolio site. Yes, linebreaks are XHTML when
you close the BR, but they are still not a clever idea when it comes
to semantic HTML, as they do have no meaning.

Also ensure that you have a good Word CV/Resume. You will hardly find
an HR department that even bothers looking at online ones, no matter
how good an idea they are. Bureaucracy is older than the web.

-- 
Chris Heilmann 
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