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Tuesday, September 03, 2002 Go to this day's page

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Krz insists that you must:

Blog your resume. This is how a typical resume looks like. My opinion is that it's impossible to tell anything from a typical resume. So a guy says he knows PHP. Does it mean that he's a PHP guru who has written 100k lines of PHP code or that he's just finished "Learn PHP in 15 minutes"? No way to tell. My idea: blog your resume. In addition to a standard resume keep a log of all the stuff you're learning and doing. E.g. if today you wrote a 5k lines perl script that spiders the web and extracts interesting info, you would to your log a dated entry:

Finished 5k line Perl script to spider the web. Used LWP::Simple module...

etc. Maintain focus and balance. We assume that this information will be read at some point in the future by someone who'll want to hire you. Don't put irrelevant information like what you've eaten for breakfast (maintain focus). Also don't post trivia like wrote 5 lines of Perl code to display "Hello world" (maintain balance). It's a win-win situation. Potential employer has a much better chance to assess your skills and experience. You'll have a better chance to showcase your skills and you'll have an edge over resumes that only say "Programming skills: C/C++, PHP". Of course you should start now, the day you're out of work is probably a few years late. Blogs are a good way to maintain this "extended resume". You might use categories (a feature of many blogging systems, e.g. Radio) to integrate this into your blogging flow. 

Darned tootin'.

This gets the raw data in.

But it leaves you with editorial work.

The people who read résumés suffer from information overload. And it's getting worse.

Recording your daily/weekly accomplishments is incredibly useful. It helps communicate with your colleagues, customers, and supervisors. If you jot just two or three notes every day, in a year you've created a descriptive collage from hundreds of data points.

Your detailed trail of accomplishments is helpful to HR or a hiring manager only so far as you organize, categorize, connect, and summarize it.

For example, 15 different posts about your Perl scripting among 300 other posts are hidden and diffuse. You can keep the reader from drowning in detail with a one or two line summary, and a link to those 15 experiences (collected and organized and cleaned up).

Tech fix? Maybe livetopics plus Radio categories can help organize this material

Practical fix? Discipline. Review your posts monthly. Summarize and add to your CV.

[aka strategy]

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