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Best Resume Builder Website
Posted on 9/2/14 at 1:20 pm
Posted on 9/2/14 at 1:20 pm
I was about to use the careerbuilder one and it's 229 bucks for a resume. That's insane. What site should I use to build my sales resume. I have one but need to make some changes. Thanks for all of the serious responses. 
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Posted on 9/2/14 at 1:22 pm to Tds & Beer
Just find a friend you trust. The resume building websites are a crock and ridiculously expensive.
Posted on 9/2/14 at 1:23 pm to Tds & Beer
What's a resume?
Posted on 9/2/14 at 1:23 pm to Tds & Beer
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it's 229 bucks for a resume
L O fricking L. If you throw your money away on that, you don't deserve any job.
Posted on 9/2/14 at 1:24 pm to Tds & Beer
What? Don't you have smart professional friends who will send you theirs in Word so you can just change the info?
Posted on 9/2/14 at 1:24 pm to KingRanch
resume'?
Posted on 9/2/14 at 1:25 pm to Forkbeard3777
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L O fricking L. If you throw your money away on that, you don't deserve any job.
which is why i said that it was insane
Posted on 9/2/14 at 1:26 pm to Tds & Beer
In all seriousness, you can e-mail me yours if you'd like and I'll critique it.
Obviously, edit out your personal info.
my name @gmail.com
Obviously, edit out your personal info.
my name @gmail.com
This post was edited on 9/2/14 at 1:27 pm
Posted on 9/2/14 at 1:30 pm to Forkbeard3777
It's fine. I am meeting with a recruiter on thursday and she will probably take care of all of that if she needs to. I was just trying to change it up because I don't get the callbacks that I think I deserve, because I have some good accomplishments and experience.
Posted on 9/2/14 at 1:31 pm to Forkbeard3777
resumes are so...'quaint'.
get with tin-can. a much more promising technology to revolutionize how potential employers will learn about you and what you know.
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get with tin-can. a much more promising technology to revolutionize how potential employers will learn about you and what you know.
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Posted on 9/2/14 at 1:36 pm to Tds & Beer
I literally just spent my lunch period searching for a Houston resume writing service.......
umm, this shite is ridiculously expensive. $250+ ain't happening from me.
Posted on 9/2/14 at 1:37 pm to Tds & Beer
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It's fine. I am meeting with a recruiter on thursday and she will probably take care of all of that if she needs to. I was just trying to change it up because I don't get the callbacks that I think I deserve, because I have some good accomplishments and experience.
It sounds so stupid and obvious, but make sure the spelling and grammar on your resume are flawless. Always highlight your strengths and not your weaknesses. I always recommend focusing more on your actual work experience and accomplishments rather than your educational achievements.
Example.
A.) I'm Johnny Smith, I have a 4.0 Gpa at Harvard University. I'm editor in chief of the business journal and volunteer on weekends. I'm top of my class!
B.) I'm Bob Jones, I worked at Smith&Sanders and mangaged XYZ accounts and oversaw the Polenski Project which grossed $1 trillion dollars. I graduated in marketing at Northwest South State University.
Jones is getting the interview, not Johnny Smith. Remember, a resume isn't going to get you the job, just your foot in the door.
A GPA is only going to carry you so (little) far. It'll get you the interview if your company places a required number. And if they do, you probably don't want to work there. The morons in our legal department can't quite grasp that. I had essentially this scenario last week with our legal department...
Legal Dep't: We only want top 10% of class from (elite) law school (guy didn't pass the bar).
Me: Yeah...dickbrain, this guy over here (State Law grad...towards the bottom of his class, but actually PASSED THE BAR) brings in a very regular, deep pocketed client if hired. He's getting the damn job. State Law got the job and we got his client/contact.
This post was edited on 9/2/14 at 1:47 pm
Posted on 9/2/14 at 1:38 pm to CAD703X
What am I looking at?
Posted on 9/2/14 at 1:39 pm to Forkbeard3777
quote:
A.) I'm Johnny Smith, I have a 4.0 Gpa. I'm editor in chief of the business journal and volunteer on weekends. I'm top of my class!
B.) I'm Bob Jones, I worked at Smith&Sanders and mangaged XYZ accounts and oversaw the Polenski Project which grossed $1 trillion dollars. I graduated in marketing at Northwest South State University.
C) Hi, I'm Joe and my friend Sam works here and he's introducing me around to everyone in the company who deal in hiring.
C gets the job.
Posted on 9/2/14 at 1:43 pm to SabiDojo
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What am I looking at?
the beginning of the future. the concept of tracking everything you learn/read/visit/experience.
not just online courses that have certificates at the end.
not just classes you took at a college.
every book you read, article you peruse, museum you visit, etc. stored in your own personal 'learning locker'.
you then expose what you want (the books on .NET and Java you've read, but not your unhealthy interest in origami) via google-like search.
a potential recruiter/employer can then search for keywords of things they find interesting..and the way this info is stored..they can see you spent 300 hours in the last month studying Java programming or have read 50+ books on some subject.
that's the just the beginning.
sure, you can lie & cheat & scan barcodes of books you've never read..but resumes are all lies too.
with this, over time your learning locker gets filled up with actual things you've done and provides a much more accurate/factual record of your true experience.
eta
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This post was edited on 9/2/14 at 1:45 pm
Posted on 9/2/14 at 1:46 pm to CAD703X
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C) Hi, I'm Joe and my friend Sam works here and he's introducing me around to everyone in the company who deal in hiring.
It's not who you know, it's who knows you.
Posted on 9/2/14 at 1:48 pm to CAD703X
That locker just begs to be filled with selfies and celebrity gossip.
Posted on 9/2/14 at 1:59 pm to Pettifogger
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What? Don't you have smart professional friends who will send you theirs in Word so you can just change the info?
This, or just look at someone's resume who is accomplished and copy the form and context of it. It really isn't that hard to create one on Word using a template from memory and plug in your own info.
Paying a firm to create one for you is a ridiculous waste of money, considering that they don't know you, your skillset, your history and your industry passion.
I will say, though, that an aesthetically pleasing and organized resume is worth its weight in gold. You'd be surprised at how many people in your peer group have terrible looking resumes. One of my buddies sent me his recently, and he still had high school jobs and info on there (he's 30, graduated college 7 years ago and has had a professional job since).
This post was edited on 9/2/14 at 2:05 pm
Posted on 9/2/14 at 2:00 pm to CAD703X
bookmarked
Posted on 9/2/14 at 2:02 pm to SabiDojo
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bookmarked
i'm pretty deep into this so i can answer questions if you have them.
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