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Drop High School section. Nobody cares about that. Its assumed if no education is listed you have a HS diploma
Absolutely. Never advertise something no legit hiring manager would care about. It's fine to not have a college degree, but don't like make a whole section to point it out, lol.
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@Dashrender said in Resume:
@DustinB3403 said in Resume:
Part Time Clerk
This section isn't relevant to what you're applying for, I would almost drop the entire section and simply replace it with something along the lines of "Prior work experience is not in my target field. Will answer questions if requested about it"
This is a good point.
You're also young enough that only having the single job being listed likely isn't going to be an issue.
This is the bigger factor, if other experience is really good (manager, engineer, teacher) then yo u list it to show overall experience. If it is clerking part time, people know that you have to pay the bills before you enter your field and don't care to read about it. Err on the side of lean.
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@Dashrender said in Resume:
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That's how Curtis would write it, jajajaja.
(Note, Curtis from another community, not from here.)
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@Dashrender said in Resume:
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So he does system support
I am sure he has touched windows server before on the job
I am sure he has worked with backups, even if its just using a SaaS solution
Also if he is using VPN to connect to remote sights then he is managing the connection in a sense
Remember, he's 23. No one expects him to be like Tim Berners-Lee.
Well, but at 23 some of us were a decade into our careers and already into senior roles. I got my first director position (100+ reports, including other directors) at 23. It's a tough age because some people are just starting, others are pretty far along, depending on where they started. @valentina was GM, a director-like position at 22, for example.
So in some ways, you have to say that the expectations are low based on age, but you also have to consider that he could have loads of experience by that age, too.
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@Dashrender said in Resume:
Not very likely - the sell windows 10 as a server solution (likely illegally)
It's legal to sell it. It's illegal to deploy it. The "illegal" is on the customer, not on the vendor. The shady is on the vendor.
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@DustinB3403 said in Resume:
@WrCombs Didn't you spend the better part of a week troubleshooting a WiFi related printing issue?
I've done a lot of things that are all summed up Hardware maintenance, problem resolution .
Break these out into projects rather than the basic things they are if it'll better explain the experience you gained from them.
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Example
Client project required in depth network troubleshooting to resolve a critical point of sale issue, final issue was dead router, resolution required setup of new network stack.
Something like that is better than "it died and needed to be replaced"
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So Far on the new Write up:
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@Dashrender said in Resume:
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So he does system support
I am sure he has touched windows server before on the job
I am sure he has worked with backups, even if its just using a SaaS solution
Also if he is using VPN to connect to remote sights then he is managing the connection in a sense
Remember, he's 23. No one expects him to be like Tim Berners-Lee.
At 23, I was already 5 years and 3 IT jobs into my career
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So Far on the new Write up:
I dont like seeing virtual machines as your first bullet point because my first question would be how are they any different than physical machines?
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I dont like seeing virtual machines as your first bullet point because my first question would be how are they any different than physical machines?
I might specify a chosen hypervisor technology that you use and are comfortable with. It's is a bit weird, I agree.
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@DustinB3403 said in Resume:
I dont like seeing virtual machines as your first bullet point because my first question would be how are they any different than physical machines?
I might specify a chosen hypervisor technology that you use and are comfortable with. It's is a bit weird, I agree.
Right. If you were a VMWare admin or AWS admin that would be relevant
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@WrCombs If you are saying Windows Workstation, don't list Server 2019, list your server proficiency as another bullet point.
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It's Oracle not Orace
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Isn't the software Bombgar and not Bomgar, which according to their website they just changed to BeyondTrust.
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@DustinB3403 said in Resume:
Isn't the software Bombgar and not Bomgar, which according to their website they just changed to BeyondTrust.
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@WrCombs yeah I was literally looking it up as I responded.
It might be worth putting it's new name there instead of the old one.
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I know this is annoying getting all this feedback, but here a few things that jump out at me
- Under Skills - rearrange them to be in order of importance to you in finding the next job
- Drop Virtualbox , this is only something you would use on a personal level never really on a business / server level
- Make Windows Server bullet point. If you want to be Windows Server admin then highlight that and Active Directory as your top skills. I would honestly learn Office 365 so you can add that on there as well. It certainly wouldnt hurt to learn Azure either if you want out of the desktop role
- Leave Helpdesk but move it towards the bottom. I would change Desktop Support to systems support (which could be desktops and servers and even if you arent doing servers, desktops are still systems )
- Talk about network configuration with ubiquiti and Unifi equipment. You dont have to list specific products. You can say something like designed networks using Ubuquit and Unifi equipment
Thats just my critique for first section more to come
