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Working Around Bad Luck on the Resume?
Dodger asks: "A year ago I was laid off from my job after 2 1/2 years, shortly after the product I was working on shipped. Later that year, a company moved me 1500 miles from Texas to California, to start working on a promising project, just to have the plug pulled by the corporation that funded it five weeks later, which resulted in another layoff. Now, there's a period of job seeking followed by a five week period of employment, followed by the current job seeking period on my resume. When the companies I interview with ask about that situation I simply explain, while trying not to whine or complain. What do other Slashdot readers do to make 'bad luck' (or bad employer choices) look less bad on their resume, and sound less bad in interviews?"
.. when asked about the short periods just point it at the interviewer and tell him you don't like people prying into your personal life.
When I stopped being honest and humble in my resume or in my interviews I started getting more interviews and talking about substantially more cash for my services. No outright lies on my resume, just some let's say, "well worded phrases"... Works like a champ even with morons like you. Oh, and I CAN do the job so getting dismissed for poor performance is out of question.
Your pizza just the way you ought to have it.
is your 'grandpappy' Jed Clampet or is that a common term from your parts ?
Getting any old job just to put it on your resume to record you're working is stupid. No, it is moronic. It doesn't mean you are a go-getter. It doesn't mean you are desirable. The moron that suggested that is totally from another planet. (Jerk!)
... try going back to school for ten years and becoming a chemist.
It's real easy, people. Face it, if you got all sorts of little rug-rats and a slouch of a wife sitting home screaming, "Feed me! Feed me!," all the time then you got no chance. You also got no choice. You're gonna hafta go out there and suck up.
Now, you were smart enough to get into computers. Stay smart enough to be celibate.
Abstinence, boys!!! Save us all the stench of your clones running around. The world's too crowded as it is.
In the meantime if you want something to do
Or better yet, try some spam!!!
P.P.S. I'd sure like to figure out a way to make the word liberal lose its negative connotation..
It's not complicated. There are only two things you have to do:
1. Vote.
2. Get as many of your like-minded friends to vote.
Obviously, the most important way to vote is at the polls on election day. But you can also vote on a daily basis by speaking up in other ways. Write to your local newspapers and television stations and voice your opinion. Tell Fox News that you think their "reporting" is one-sided garbage, and send copies of your letter to the companies that advertise with them. Help raise some money for your favorite liberal-but-soon-to-be-mainstream candidate. Let your senators and congressmen know that you vote, that you'll support them if they represent your opinions, and that you'll vote for someone else if they won't. And so on.
The more you do that, the more things will shift to the liberal side. And if you can get friends to do the same, so much the better.
We know developpers are the greatest group of people to arrive to this planet since Jesus the Crhist himself.
We should worship them as we are not worthy to be in thier presence.
May we receive their blessed code.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
(before you decide to modbomb, check with the history of me to get a good deal of who you might be dealing with)
# not telling us any of their previous employers' secrets: if they'll break somebody else's NDA, I'm sure they'll break ours;
Obviously, you're a confused Ivy Leaguer. Mind where you're saying this one. This is Slashdot. Besides, I dont mind picking through things like national secrets *and* making your company think twice, no matter if you're SCO for OS NDA's, or General Dynamics if you're holding nice, juicy government secrets on the software for those tanks (Java was in the development process for some software for tanks at the very least from what I remember from seeing in source code(I'll put more if I can find it on my profile here, even if it amounts to simulation, well, I dont care about the concept of IP), and sending your people to Italy for conferences, is something you dont do, General Dynamics, especially on the government contract dollar. Do it with your own money not made on the backs of the contracts. Besides, I'd not mind if the adjustment in the economy means I can afford such kind of trips, versus settling for locations in the middle of the desert for such kinds of meetings.) (BTW, Novell Netware if you're wanting to deal with military storage of data - BAD - given the many known ways in, you should know about the failures of security by obscurity, and harassing me IRL, will slap you with a nice RICO lawsuit.)
As far as the rest of the stuff, mind that I do agree on the blatant dishonesty; The only thing more slippery down the slope for me is thinking that if you're some Ivy League/Fraternity/Orkut SOB who thinks he is a god (and is usually the one who would BS through), he shall be given the fast track. Well, they get it, but they'll wonder why they're out in the cold w/o an interview, and wonder why their money/power could only give me an excellent opportunity to (within the law) knock the wind out of their sails. Which means, you're going to have to work on your skill to get in.
"Forget the engineers." -Carly Fiorina, briber of MIT Technology Review.