Re: Resumes
Posted by sped on 4/13/08
Right! We hear all this advice that there's a certain paper
quality or font or length of resume that will get an interview,
but at the end of the day its about what's written on a resume
that matters. Obviously a billingual special ed teacher with a
mediocre resume will get more calls than an English-only second
grade teacher with a fabulous, professionally designed resume.
If they need a billingual sped teacher for 10th grade, and they
only have two resumes that fit the bill, then those people are
getting called. There's no magic bullet that will get you a job
or an interview except to have skills that are in demand! On 4/12/08, Paty wrote:
> As a former human resource manager, owner of several
> businesses and a former teacher, I can tell you that the last
> response was the most accurate. Every person is different,
> both in their likes and dislikes and in their objectives from
> resumes.
>
> I always tell people that the length of a resume will vary
> for many reasons: the size font used, the leading (spacing
> between lines), the font chosen (width), the amount of
> information contained (whether it be the vast number of jobs,
> the details included from each experience, listed references,
> number of years reported, hobbies and interests, objective or
> lack thereof, verbosity, etc). I learned in business school
> that an average employer gives only 30 SECONDS of reading to
> any given resume. An employer scans for those "magical"
> words or phrases that are being sought, whether it
> is "bilingual", "coaching", "certified XXX", or whatever the
> case may be. For any given position (this is citing the
> corporate environment remember) there are 200 non-qualified
> candidates for every 1 qualified.
>
> So, don't worry about books and articles that tell you what
> the "proper way" of writing a resume is. Make your resume
> easy to read, organized, and professional. A resume must
> make the reader want to read more and meet that person to get
> more information. I once helped a friend do hers for
> restaurant management and we had to have two pages, for she
> has valuable skills and experience with awesome and
> staggering numbers to prove her background. She got
> interviews 90&37; of the time and was always having to choose
> her position. It wasn't because her resume was "picture
> perfect", but because the information contained was relevent
> to the position being sought.
>
> Good luck.
>
Posts on this thread, including this one
- Resumes, 4/10/08, by slreja.
- Re: Resumes, 4/11/08, by AJ9934.
- Re: Resumes, 4/11/08, by Job Hunter.
- Re: Resumes, 4/11/08, by 2 pages for teachers.
- Re: Resumes, 4/11/08, by mark.
- Re: Resumes, 4/12/08, by Job Hunter.
- Re: Resumes, 4/12/08, by Paty.
- Re: Resumes, 4/13/08, by sped.
- Re: Resumes, 4/14/08, by mandy.
- Re: Resumes, 5/03/08, by kev.
- Re: Resumes, 5/03/08, by kev.
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