You have too many positions - you're jumping ship every couple of years. I can't trust you'll stay
I'm an IT support contractor. I work contracts that last from ONE DAY to ONE YEAR for three or four different contracting agencies. I'm more than happy to take a 'permanent' job, but those jobs are long gone in Silicon Valley.
Your communications skills are so bad that you can't edit down your thoughts
My four-page resume represents the HIGHLIGHTS of my jobs. My master resume with every job I ever done for the last 18 years is ten pages long. I do have a two-page for hiring managers with limited reading comprehension skills.
You're an individual with an inflated ego.
I'm a professional. If you want the job done, you hire me. If you don't want the job done, hire your beer buddy.
Or a live plant. I had a coworker who got upset when someone gave him a live plant as a white elephant Christmas present because it would compete with him for oxygen. Which the bean counters were threatening to charge everyone because the company was a death spiral from the cuts that the bean counters implemented. So I took the plant home.
The quickest way to fund the manned space program is to alert the "blow crap up" political groups in the U.S. that the Iranians hid their nukes on Mars.
I currently support 80,000 Windows systems. The management team gets yelled at from above and below, no one yells at me. I spend my days poking and prodding systems that don't automatically update themselves, filling out spreadsheets, writing PowerShell scripts, and going home after eight-hour days.
I got my current job because of my four-page resume. Search engines and recruiters love my four-page resume. Hiring managers often ask to see my four-page resume when they noticed my summary of past experience on my two-page resume.
I wanted to be a history major when I was a kid. I loved the American Revolution, the founding of the Constitution and the Supreme Court. These days I take a keen interest in the history of computers.
The paragraph I quoted from Wikipedia was for Ancient Greece (500-336 B.C.E.). That's 2,500 years ago, not the 1920's. The word "liberal" meant "free man". That's what is missing from today's liberal arts programs.
I got my programming degree ten years ago. So that's where the Java programmers were coming at the time. The community colleges these days are probably pumping out more Python programmers.
Perhaps you should educate yourself on what the Liberal Arts are, as "liberal" has nothing to do with modern politics.
The liberal arts (Latin: artes liberales) are those subjects or skills that in classical antiquity were considered essential for a free person (Latin: liberal, "worthy of a free person") to know in order to take an active part in civic life, something that (for Ancient Greece) included participating in public debate, defending oneself in court, serving on juries, and most importantly, military service. Grammar, logic, and rhetoric were the core liberal arts, while arithmetic, geometry, the theory of music, and astronomy also played a (somewhat lesser) part in education.
After 18 years in Silicon Valley, my resume is four pages long and recruiters are offering me senior-level positions. I'm no longer a fresh-faced liberal arts major and I don't compete for those level-entry jobs anymore..
I read a recent article where law firms are requiring a college degree instead of a high school diploma for a filing clerk position. Never mind that the work haven't changed that much over the years. A high school diploma gets into college and that's about it these days.
I got a computer programming degree from my local community college. All programming, little theory. Where do you think all the Java programmers come from?
Liberal arts majors get hired by the marketing department and put in charge of engineering. I had that unpleasant when I interviewed for a QA job at 3Dfx in 1997. No wonder that company crashed and burned a few years later.
I've done IT support contract work for the last ten years, including help desk, desktop and data center. I'm now doing computer security. Help desk isn't a dead end job unless you let it become one.
I've always had an interest in computers and electronics as a kid, but I mostly avoided computers during my first tour through college. I managed to get an internship through a roommate to test software. After my contract was up six months later, I became a video game tester and lead tester for the next six years. I went back to college to learn computer programming and made the college president's list for maintaining a 4.0 GPA in my major. I've been doing IT support contract work for the last ten years. Now I'm doing computer security. Sometimes the best people to hire are the ones who take their time finding out what they want to do.
I used to make engineers cry all the time when they requested a software package that had to be manually installed on their Windows XP workstation, which didn't allow concurrent user sessions like Windows Server 2003. A typical engineer had 30 windows open at any given time, and it took 15 minutes to log out of the system.
My current IT contract job is with the government. I'm getting paid the same amount as I was making in the private sector and a 2% raise after working for a year. I've seen five contractors get fired within two weeks of being hired because they tried to "mooch" by not working. The primary benefit of this job is that the contract is fully funded for the next four years. It's a nice break from the contracting work I've done for the last ten years. Meanwhile, I'm studying for certification exams to get my next job.
I read an article several months ago that a law firm filing clerk position that used to require a high school diploma now requires a college degree. Who knew that pushing paperwork was intellectually challenging work?
I worked at the Google help desk for a little while in 2008, where I had to walk a new employee from Stanford University through the process of TURNING ON THE COMPUTER. He was shocked — shocked! — that a cubicle farm wasn't like a university computer lab where someone walked around to turn on the computers and made sure they worked everyday.
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You have too many positions - you're jumping ship every couple of years. I can't trust you'll stay
I'm an IT support contractor. I work contracts that last from ONE DAY to ONE YEAR for three or four different contracting agencies. I'm more than happy to take a 'permanent' job, but those jobs are long gone in Silicon Valley.
Your communications skills are so bad that you can't edit down your thoughts
My four-page resume represents the HIGHLIGHTS of my jobs. My master resume with every job I ever done for the last 18 years is ten pages long. I do have a two-page for hiring managers with limited reading comprehension skills.
You're an individual with an inflated ego.
I'm a professional. If you want the job done, you hire me. If you don't want the job done, hire your beer buddy.
Or a live plant. I had a coworker who got upset when someone gave him a live plant as a white elephant Christmas present because it would compete with him for oxygen. Which the bean counters were threatening to charge everyone because the company was a death spiral from the cuts that the bean counters implemented. So I took the plant home.
The quickest way to fund the manned space program is to alert the "blow crap up" political groups in the U.S. that the Iranians hid their nukes on Mars.
I currently support 80,000 Windows systems. The management team gets yelled at from above and below, no one yells at me. I spend my days poking and prodding systems that don't automatically update themselves, filling out spreadsheets, writing PowerShell scripts, and going home after eight-hour days.
I spend my days interacting with 80,000 Windows systems.
I got my current job because of my four-page resume. Search engines and recruiters love my four-page resume. Hiring managers often ask to see my four-page resume when they noticed my summary of past experience on my two-page resume.
Good luck in finding a job. Which was why I didn't pursue it as a major in college.
I wanted to be a history major when I was a kid. I loved the American Revolution, the founding of the Constitution and the Supreme Court. These days I take a keen interest in the history of computers.
The paragraph I quoted from Wikipedia was for Ancient Greece (500-336 B.C.E.). That's 2,500 years ago, not the 1920's. The word "liberal" meant "free man". That's what is missing from today's liberal arts programs.
Translation: Stand up comedians need not apply.
I got my programming degree ten years ago. So that's where the Java programmers were coming at the time. The community colleges these days are probably pumping out more Python programmers.
Perhaps you should educate yourself on what the Liberal Arts are, as "liberal" has nothing to do with modern politics.
The liberal arts (Latin: artes liberales) are those subjects or skills that in classical antiquity were considered essential for a free person (Latin: liberal, "worthy of a free person") to know in order to take an active part in civic life, something that (for Ancient Greece) included participating in public debate, defending oneself in court, serving on juries, and most importantly, military service. Grammar, logic, and rhetoric were the core liberal arts, while arithmetic, geometry, the theory of music, and astronomy also played a (somewhat lesser) part in education.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts_education
Subject line came about because I had a catastrophic brain fart while listening to a conference call at work.
After 18 years in Silicon Valley, my resume is four pages long and recruiters are offering me senior-level positions. I'm no longer a fresh-faced liberal arts major and I don't compete for those level-entry jobs anymore..
I read a recent article where law firms are requiring a college degree instead of a high school diploma for a filing clerk position. Never mind that the work haven't changed that much over the years. A high school diploma gets into college and that's about it these days.
I got a computer programming degree from my local community college. All programming, little theory. Where do you think all the Java programmers come from?
Liberal arts majors get hired by the marketing department and put in charge of engineering. I had that unpleasant when I interviewed for a QA job at 3Dfx in 1997. No wonder that company crashed and burned a few years later.
I've done IT support contract work for the last ten years, including help desk, desktop and data center. I'm now doing computer security. Help desk isn't a dead end job unless you let it become one.
I've always had an interest in computers and electronics as a kid, but I mostly avoided computers during my first tour through college. I managed to get an internship through a roommate to test software. After my contract was up six months later, I became a video game tester and lead tester for the next six years. I went back to college to learn computer programming and made the college president's list for maintaining a 4.0 GPA in my major. I've been doing IT support contract work for the last ten years. Now I'm doing computer security. Sometimes the best people to hire are the ones who take their time finding out what they want to do.
I used to make engineers cry all the time when they requested a software package that had to be manually installed on their Windows XP workstation, which didn't allow concurrent user sessions like Windows Server 2003. A typical engineer had 30 windows open at any given time, and it took 15 minutes to log out of the system.
Like I said, cup holders.
I look forward to my new Dell cup holder!
My current IT contract job is with the government. I'm getting paid the same amount as I was making in the private sector and a 2% raise after working for a year. I've seen five contractors get fired within two weeks of being hired because they tried to "mooch" by not working. The primary benefit of this job is that the contract is fully funded for the next four years. It's a nice break from the contracting work I've done for the last ten years. Meanwhile, I'm studying for certification exams to get my next job.
I read an article several months ago that a law firm filing clerk position that used to require a high school diploma now requires a college degree. Who knew that pushing paperwork was intellectually challenging work?
I worked at the Google help desk for a little while in 2008, where I had to walk a new employee from Stanford University through the process of TURNING ON THE COMPUTER. He was shocked — shocked! — that a cubicle farm wasn't like a university computer lab where someone walked around to turn on the computers and made sure they worked everyday.