Resume review please

pwjohnston

I'm currently looking to sup-up my resume. My old one was 8 pages and I have now got it down to 3 in a word doc. I tried to put what I thought was the most important stuff on the first page. I took the cert logos out of the top because you guys said it was gaudy. I also compounded my contracting jobs in to one long piece. I'm focusing on trying to highlight myself as a SysAdmin and work toward getting positions in virtualization, specifically working with either VMWare or Citrix XenServer (what we're running in the office now.)

Please don't be kind,
Thank You

Philip W. Johnston, SysAdmin

fly351

I would take off the (X years) after the duration, I am pretty sure they can see that from the date range Also "Working on Bachelors" doesn't hold much weight--as others have said, this is OK to add on a cover letter, but not on the resume.

If I am not mistaken, I believe others here have said that any kind of "Honors" is kind of pointless to add; kind of looks like a "look how awesome I am" and might be shunned by employers.

I don't think the "relocated to Philly" is necessary, but if you want to leave it I would spell out Philadelphia to look a little more professional.

I would also rename the "Projects" to "Key" or "Core Accomplishments" or something like that.