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Brush Up Your IT Resume
In any job hunt, your resume is the tip of the sword – the one essential marketing tool that any potential employer sees before anything else. Getting your resume right is a critical part of any job search, and it’s even more challenging in the IT industry.
For example, that often-overlooked “skills” section of your resume takes on greater significance where employers look for specific technical skills. If your list is more extensive than, uh, “nunchuku skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills,” you’ll want to put some work into how you call out those capabilities.
InsideTech and Monster both offer plenty of tips for whipping your IT resume into shape, but these key suggestions are particularly important for IT workers:
- Call out technical accomplishments
When you’re outlining work at previous jobs, focus on providing a compact summary of the technical projects you completed.
- Don’t embellish your skills
If you’ve only heard about a language or a development environment, don’t list it on your resume. Likewise, avoid listing outdated skills or anything with which you don’t have ample experience.- Choose a format that fits your experience
If you’re just starting out, play up technical skills and education. If you’ve been in the industry for a while, play up your experience and accomplishments before moving on to skills and education.
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chtanzeel
9 months ago
2 comments
Reading the description posted in the article, it gives me feeling that a QA person should not have any pre-requisite IT knowledge. I toally disagree with this opinion. One cannot find bugs or can miss potential bugs that arise due to lack of technology knowlege, environment configuration, and database-mapping knowledge. There are lot of IT specific tasks other than just front end testing, that a QA person is supposed to perform like Data Persistence, Automated Testing, Performance/Load Testing etc. which are obviously not possible without having an IT degree. What your say?
alcozz
about 1 year ago
2 comments
I don't quite see this info helpful. I am a QA engineer - IT manager. I have a computer science master's from one of the top 10 engineering grad schools. And got straigt into QA industry after grad school - before that had software engineer expereinces. What I have hired and am looking for is somebody who can code & test and we pay much more than most of the non-it jobs posted in this site. All depends on what company and how high level the company expects.. but the candidate in this info is barely a QA analyst to me which I don't need in my team. you'd better not apply as a QA engineer if you only meet this description written here. Junior or intern QA analyst might work for you.