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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 Likewise, avoid listing outdated skills or anything with which you don’t have ample experience.- Choose a format that fits your experience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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telios
10 months ago
2 comments
I've been working in the IT industry for a few years and from what I've gathered, the best way to work out your salary is mainly determined by the 3 main deciding factors:
* Geographic demand - although in IT, it's not AS big as say in retail, but most want websites developed in the same geographic region and this normally reflects the pay rate of developers.
* Skilled workers available - the less skilled workers that are available, the more employers are willing to pay for skilled employees, like bidding on goods on ebay.
* Experiance - yes not education, but experiance; this is a big requirement as many employers wont even touch collage or TAFE students without something to show. Just make a decent modern website (good idea to utilize MVC design with a backend of some sort, hint google 'web 2.0'), which should demostrate more then any resume can. Those with experiance, usually the more you have (assuming you have naturally progressed more competancy with the industry along with the experiance), the more employers are willing to win the bid over you.
But if you are getting into the industry, make sure you leave or finish working with the first company in good terms and make sure you can use them as a referee as they are your door into a good company and a nice salary. ;-)
jennifer6278
about 1 year ago
2 comments
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amitgai123
about 1 year ago
2 comments
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