Resume Help

rsxwithslicks

Hey guys,Worked on my resume a little bit with a buddy who's an IT Manager. Wanted to get some more "professional" input if anyone was willing to take the time to give it a read. Thanks in advance and any help will be greatly appreciated.

srabiee

If that's your actual personal info at the top of the resume, then I recommend scrubbing this info immediately. Never post your personal info on a public forum like that.

Objective sections are outdated and no longer recommended. Instead, you should incorporate a professional summary section. I will link you to an example at the bottom of this post. Objectives are implied and redundant.

Your skills section doesn't tell me HOW you know those technologies, nor does it tell me your level of proficiency. Instead of typing up a bunch of skills like this, I would rather you incorporate these skills into your experience section. That way you can explain to me what you did with those technologies in a business/enterprise environment. Then you can delete the skills section altogether.

I like how you began your most recent job description with a high-level overview of your daily duties and responsibilities, and then used bullets to highlight special achievements. I would recommend expanding on the high-level overview a bit in order to reduce the number of bullets. The high-level overview could easily be two or three sentences in this case.

I don't think it's absolutely necessary to create a subsection titled "additional tasks taken on..." I would just consolidate those bullets with the others, expand on your high-level overview, and then club and/or delete some of those bullets so you don't have so many. Ideally you don't want more than six or seven bullets. Any more than that and it gets tiresome and tedious to read through.

You other past job descriptions should also include a high-level overview, followed by bullets to highlight projects and/or special achievements. Furthermore, this is an easily identifiable formatting inconsistency.

Next, I would personally recommend that you remove a significant portion of your past non-IT related job experience in order to get this resume down to a single page. You only have one year of professional IT experience. There's absolutely no reason why this resume should be two full pages. On my own resume, I have work experience dating back to 1999, but my professional IT experience didn't start until 2008. I cut out all of the old experience and began my work experience with the 2008 job position. You should keep the managerial job on there (certainly wouldn't hurt), but I would recommend removing everything else and get this resume down to one page. Make sure the general manager position includes a high-level overview like your current position does, and try to emphasize any and all IT related roles that you performed during those 5 years. You are tailoring this resume to land a technical IT role, after all. (Unless you are shooting for an IT Manager position, then that's a whole different ballgame)

I recommend working on some certs soon, depending on what career path you are interested in pursuing. (Microsoft, Cisco, etc) Even better, consider getting your bachelors degree. I feel that would open up many, many doors for you, especially in absence of a lot of professional experience in the IT field.

Refer to ptilsen's resume for an example of excellent formatting, wording, etc.

http://www.techexams.net/forums/jobs-degrees/91333-resume-time.html

cyberguypr

Well, srabiee didn't leave much for me to tackle. Quit hogging!!!

One thing though, you have an "Education and Professional Training" section, yet I see no professional training of any kind. Stood out like a sore thumb to me.