sarameg, go cuddle the kitties

Woohoo! Just scored this [link] off the listserv! Massive improvement over the box in the LR.

eta: for free!

While it's actionable to claim credentials you don't have and lie explicitly about what you were doing at certain periods of your life, it's not exactly lying to leave OUT jobs and degrees.

Wow, Sarameg. That's one fancy box!

No shit! She's getting rid of it b/c her remaining cat won't use it and she wants to reclaim the space. Score! I may offer her something since, seriously? That's a serious enclosure. It's in mahogony, which matches with my woods in that room.

Timelies all!

I came to the realization that the last resume I did was two computers ago, and I'm not sure it's retrievable.(I copied all the files from the old-old computer on to the computer before this one, but I have no printer attached to that one)

Of course, this is what happens when you've been in the same job for almost 9 years.

My resume is pretty long, but I try to front load the first page sufficiently that it answers most of the questions I get. I have the buzzword, but they're not all on one job, and I haven't made the skill-based resume and have the more tradition job-based resume. With an entire extra sheet listing customers for whom I did big projects to show that I industry switch as a matter of course.

One on the people that wanted me to break open my 401K wanted me to be sending out a one page resume to dice and monster and the like. I've been doing a lot of stuff for twenty years. I'm not sure how doable that is--and how often do they know there's a more detailed and traditional resume to come. Do you just leave an ellipsis?

While it's actionable to claim credentials you don't have and lie explicitly about what you were doing at certain periods of your life, it's not exactly lying to leave OUT jobs and degrees.

Plain omissions don't seem problematic to me (DH has different resumes he sends out depending on whether he's applying for research or writing positions), but changing titles I'm wary of. That could come back to bite you when Potential HR calls Previous HR to check your references.

That could come back to bite you when Potential HR calls Previous HR to check your references.

I was an Enterprise Application Architect at one my last jobs, and Computer Resource Manager at another. What did I do? Project Management. Makes those entries a bit longer. I don't know if I've ever had the title Project Manager, but it's been my major field for ten years now. And the Computer Resource Manager people let me put Project Manager on my business cards.

So, this is one of the weirdest things in a while. This woman calls 911 and reports that after a fender bender, she and her 9 yr old daughter were abducted and thrown in the trunk of a Cadillac by two black men (of course).

Amber Alert issued, much hysteria, and an hour later, surveillance cameras pick up the mother and daughter at the airport, buying one-way tickets to Orlando.

They were picked up today at Disneyland.

WTF?

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