[NCLUG] Home Linux experience on a resume

[Brian Grossman]

For online recruiters: Dice, Monster, etc, tune it for the headhunter: make
sure you hit all the relevant keywords and make sure it's otherwise clearly
not written by a third grader.  Thankfully, most of those outfits give you
forms to fill out so you don't have to worry too much about format.

If you're aiming the resume at a particular job, tailor your resume and
cover letter for that job.  Otherwise, demonstrate diversity and depth.

Brian


On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:50:18 -0600
Brendan Long <korin43 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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