11-28-2010, 08:35 AM
JGL Fan Gary -
Well! Congrats to you as well! May the New Year bring both you and Kevin new-found prosperity!
But, Gary, I read your post with great interest, as over the years, I have endured extended periods of unemployment (for some reason, when the financial going gets tough, the blinders-wearing, bottom-line-oriented corporate bean-counters lay off the people who develop new product first! How does that make any sense?)
Your positive attitude and methods for keeping it leaning in a positive direction are to be not merely commended, but applauded! And I learned a few things re: resume preparation that I hadn't thought about before! Unfortunately, too late to help me, but you young guys should read Gary's post again, slowly this time, letting some of its wisdom sink in! There's no reason to go back though history and list your first after-school-part-time job [... a bit of sarcasm, but you get the idea.] Unless it's germane to illustrate your knowledge or experience base, leave it out. You can always bring older work history up in the interview ... and that's all the resume really is, in truth ... a tool to get your face in front of the hiring decision-maker! Let me add ... try to keep the resume to one page ... I was guilty of that one, listing every job after graduation from design school (including a a rough period in the very beginning, with a number of jobs working a month or two for a few different consultant design offices, each of which was struggling to keep the doors open) ... it doesn't look very stable, even if it wasn't your fault.
So ... thinking positive thoughts ...
May January First bring the two of you, and all of us collectively, the beginnings of a more prosperous, happier, less-constrained, less overly-regulated future!
Well! Congrats to you as well! May the New Year bring both you and Kevin new-found prosperity!
But, Gary, I read your post with great interest, as over the years, I have endured extended periods of unemployment (for some reason, when the financial going gets tough, the blinders-wearing, bottom-line-oriented corporate bean-counters lay off the people who develop new product first! How does that make any sense?)
Your positive attitude and methods for keeping it leaning in a positive direction are to be not merely commended, but applauded! And I learned a few things re: resume preparation that I hadn't thought about before! Unfortunately, too late to help me, but you young guys should read Gary's post again, slowly this time, letting some of its wisdom sink in! There's no reason to go back though history and list your first after-school-part-time job [... a bit of sarcasm, but you get the idea.] Unless it's germane to illustrate your knowledge or experience base, leave it out. You can always bring older work history up in the interview ... and that's all the resume really is, in truth ... a tool to get your face in front of the hiring decision-maker! Let me add ... try to keep the resume to one page ... I was guilty of that one, listing every job after graduation from design school (including a a rough period in the very beginning, with a number of jobs working a month or two for a few different consultant design offices, each of which was struggling to keep the doors open) ... it doesn't look very stable, even if it wasn't your fault.
So ... thinking positive thoughts ...
May January First bring the two of you, and all of us collectively, the beginnings of a more prosperous, happier, less-constrained, less overly-regulated future!
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln