[Cialug] resume assistance

[j.bengtson at mchsi.com]

If you can, go around the HR people.  Find out who the tech managers are, and send your resume directly to them.  You can ask them to "please forward my resume to your HR department", but you really want them to at least skim your resume first.  That's where a good cover letter can be a big help.

----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Vick 
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group 
Sent: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:28:19 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Re: [Cialug] resume assistance

On 8/31/2010 11:47 AM, Tim Champion wrote:
> I've been on the hiring end a couple times, and from my experience, 
> the cover letter is more important than a resume.  -- and because I 
> hold that opinion, I have a huge hang-up on constructing a quality 
> cover letter to the point where I work through recruiters instead so I 
> don't have to deal with cover letters.

I've been worrying about the HR people who receive the resumes -- the 
ones who don't know the tech, but are just going off of a list of 
requirements that someone else gave them.  We can piggyback off of our 
current skills into new areas, but I'll need to convince them of the 
transferability so they pass the application along to the next level.  
Case in point, a job writing C++/Qt applications for embedded devices: 
I'm an expert with C++ and Qt, and I am confident of my abilities to 
pick up the nuances of an embedded environment.  Any advice on how to 
word this?

Or is this a case where I need to find a book and claim it as a 
self-taught skill?

-Andrew Vick
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