Resume Tips For Jobs

JerseyTom writes "SAGEWire reports that with the economy speeding up, more and more people are freshening up their resumés. They've printed an article by Tom Limoncelli, co-author of TPoSaNA, that offers specific advice for geeks writing resumes." 'Course, I'm not sure how much I believe the economy speeding up - but still good information.,

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E-cone-oh-my?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re:forst pist

[Anonymous Coward]

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Migor knows ALL!!!!

Sad news... Stephen King dead at 55

[Anonymous Coward]

I just heard some sad news on talk radio. American horror/suspense author Stephen King was murdered last night by a bloodthirsty, balloon-wielding clown. There weren't any more details. Even if you never read any of his books, chances are you know somebody who did. Truly an American icon.

Economy speeding up? WTF???

[irishkev]

Perfect Economic Storm?

Are we about to get smacked by a Perfect Economic Storm? "About to get smacked!? What do you call the last two years?" you say. I know, things have been bad and continue to get worse. But the markets seem to have crossed the rubicon today, headed toward serious doom. Oil prices continue to rise and earnings are going nowhere but down. Many issues are crossing below six year lows. War with Iraq, and God knows where else, is imminent.

And there's another MAJOR story that is not getting much coverage in the establishment media: the longshoremen lockout. Each day the ports are closed takes backlogs a week to unwind until things return to normal. Each day the ports are closed the U.S. economy loses approximately $1 billion. This is not a labor issue, this is a national security issue. If this longshoremen situation is not resolved in very short order, the U.S. government has a contingency plan to use United States Marines to keep the ports open. The government realizes that the longshoremen (the most militant union of them all) will not allow anyone to break any picket lines without a full tilt riot (or worse) ensuing. But even those guys won't stand up to .mil. What does this mean? I don't know how likely this is, but there is definitely a fair chance that all of the ports in the western U.S. may soon be placed under military control.

I don't think the port operators would be this bold unless they "knew" something, if you know what I mean. And all of this nonsense is happening as the major swindlers are gearing up for the critical Christmas shopping season:

In Portland, terminal operators told about 200 dockworkers to leave the Port of Portland's largest container terminal at about 3:15 p.m., in the middle of what union members had expected to be a full day shift.

"I never thought this would happen," said Bruce Holte, president of ILWU Local 8 in Portland. "It affects our whole economy. The Pacific Maritime Association wants to destroy our economy. Who knows how long they'll want to play this game."

I wasn't being "funny"... oh well

[SexyKellyOsbourne]

This is sadly true. If you want a job, your resume must proudly wear your bullshit.

I may have worded it a bit humourously, but I was actually being serious. I don't care, however -- karma is karma :)

But you really do have to BS everything and present yourself as some sort of living God, even if the facts couldn't possibly check out.

All the other things you mentioned work whether you BS or not, however.

return of the bloated middle-man

[Anonymous Coward]

actually the economy is speeding up. Many are buying more but are perhaps being a bit wiser on what they buy (not throwing out money, but actually doing research). However, once again we have an issue of statistics vs. reality. I think it is often amusing when some media person tells me how 'consumer confidence is down drastically resulting in the decreased spending we all see' yet I look around and see even more cars around the shopping malls than last year with people tanking off with even more stuff. Then when I hear others echo that across the nation I really have to wonder what particular areas they are referring to.

People are indeed fickle, however if someone buys smart (shops around) instead of just impulse buying then it logically falls upon the stores and vendors. However, picture this very hypothetical situation: Lets say you have Company X that makes Plastic Monkeys for sale to all consumers. They notice a drop in sales during a time that the sheep... er masses have a 'reduced confidence.' Now as things begin to speed back up they find that they have not returned to their former sales, that is still bad. They do however understand that they have many competitors that either sell other plastic monkeys, plastic non-monkey animals or monkeys of another material. How to they combat this? The cost must be justified to the consumer so do they just reduce cost or add value and keep cost constant? I know, how about they fire 20% of their engineering and manufacturing force and place that and much more money into the marketing and legal departments. And of course, they should refuse to look at internal practices and efficiency, as that might embarrisingly reveal the leeching effect of many managers at various levels. While hard working managers are busy being great facilitators that get things done, they will ignore them and focus on the smooth talking but empty results suits and consolidate more underneath them. After all, if you can't even handle your one or two projects in any way that could be defined as competent, I am sure that adding four to eight more will fix the problem in no time at all.

Meanwhile, Interactive Animals, Inc., a new and very small company that makes animals that have rudimentary AI that learnes and can be uploaded/downloaded to your PC or Mac are gaining market in not just your area but in many R&D areas of the AI and robotics industry. Now shall we learn from them and compete? Shall we find some obscure litigation to throw at them? Perhaps we will start a smear campaign or just advertise as "don't you wanna go with the one you trust? The one that has been around the longest?" while not offering any superior cost value, features or support and service? I know, how about using your reserves (and liquidating some more implementers) so that you can buy them out. While in theory you could benefit by this addition of drive, determination and innovation... in reality you will actually only act as a monkey wrench thrown into the gears of progress, refusing to learn from what they did right while arrogantly thumping your chests and saying "Son, we've been around for a long time and now how business works."

Soon, the next releases of animated and intelligent animals will now bear your own special touch. That means they will magically not work with as many applications, OS's and platforms anymore while the features are actually less than before, addons that worked for the last 4 versions are now incompatable, minimum system requirements to interface have gone up 250% and they bots use three times as many batteries that last a quarter as long as before.

But who is really to blame? The consumer. When the consumer, like the voter, foolishly lets himself be led by rhetoric and walks blindly into places he should know not to go, then this is the result. Suck it up consumer, you got exactly what you deserve for being stupid. Suck it up next time and don't financially support the companies that obviously don't know how best to give you the value for your hard eaned buck. That is the beauty of the free-market that is squandered by fools.

Re:Speeding up?

[NixterAg]

Oh my goodness. I post the same thing as the parent and I'm a troll, while his is modded up as interesting.

The inmates are running the asylum.

JerseyTom is a freak.

[airrage]

The guy who posted this story is, well, let me put it in his words, "...My name is Tom Limoncelli and I'm a 32-year old poly, bi, white male that lives in New Jersey." Dude, next time, leave the details out...sheesh.