In my almost nine years of recruiting, I have reviewed hundreds of thousands of resumes. In most cases, if you have the right skills and a decent enough looking resume, it is enough to get you an interview. It may not get you a job you are looking for, but really, that is not the purpose of a resume. The purpose is to market you with a roughly two to three page really big business card. This hopefully creates enough interest in your background to warrant a phone call or a face-to-face meeting with your new potential employer. After submission of the resume, the following — one to five interviews, reference checks, offer negotiations — are the things that really get you the job.
If your resume contains something that stops you from ever getting an interview, then you will, of course, never get the job. Yes, what if a recruiter, HR person or hiring manager looks down at your resume and by the sheer words on the paper elicits a cry of “What the F%&k”??!! This, my curious blog reader, is the “What the F%&K Factor” or “What not to write in a resume”.
The previous CTIA’s & 3GSM hold some mighty good memories. Whether it is eating a huge crab at a swanky San Francisco Restaurant. Playing Texas Hold ‘em at the Hands on Mobile party, Or hitting the “Coyote Ugly like bar” in Orlando, drinking til 4AM & eating Seven Eleven food with the execs at a major media company (the name was removed to protect the not-so innocent).
Eating a huge crab at a Swanky San Fran Restuarant
But still I have to say the best party I attended was the one for VeriSign that had a group of Retro performers including Vanilla Ice, The Sugar Hill Gang, Tiffany and Thomas Dolby. Each artist played two songs. They did a contest as to who played the best. The way you voted was to text message your vote & it would read live on a giant tote board. Vanilla Ice won, but I think The Sugar Hill Gang kicked his butt personally.
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Well CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment 2008 is only a couple of weeks away. As a CTIA junkie… I Have gone to all of them for the last 4 years, I even went Barcelona for 3GSM. I am gearing up for what I am sure will be a killer event.
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