[NCLUG] Home Linux experience on a resume

[Brendan Long]

My problem is I just don't know where to put it. Resumes seem to have a
bunch of rules I don't understand. I heard from a lot of people to
"imagine what you would think if you were the one hiring someone", but
if I was hiring someone I wouldn't care about this "always use one page"
and "the sections should be 'Objectives', 'Experience' and 'Education',
in that order" stuff..

Right now my plan is a "skills" section, with no explanation of how I
did it. Someone else suggested "Projects", which I might use for
contributions to open source projects.

I wish the online applications would just have a section like "Select
each technology that you consider yourself to be good at" "Now select
everything you have used before that you didn't select previously".

On 03/22/2010 11:43 PM, dlc wrote:
> It counts, use it.
>
> DLC
>
> Brendan Long wrote:
>   
>> Hi, I'm not sure if this is really the best place to ask, but I figured
>> people post jobs on here on all the time, so someone is bound to have an
>> idea. The thing is, I've been using Linux exclusively at home for a
>> couple years, along with running a personal site with a VPS. I just
>> don't know how to put that on a resume, since it's not professional
>> experience. Any ideas?
>>
>> -Brendan Long
>>
>> PS - This isn't "I put Ubuntu in and hit install" experience, I run
>> Arch, have written several packages for the AUR, and I use the terminal
>> constantly.
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