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nice to hear volly. Good luck!

our youngest slept through he night last night and I am working on a resume to send to a Knoxville company. Trying to make it sound like I'm remotely qualified for this job is difficult :)
 
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utvolpj said:
nice to hear volly. Good luck!

our youngest slept through he night last night and I am working on a resume to send to a Knoxville company. Trying to make it sound like I'm remotely qualified for this job is difficult :)
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Fake it til ya make it.
 
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utvolpj said:
littering my resume with industry buzz words so they'll think I'm smart. Just hope they don't ask me to define them :whistling:
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Use the keywords from the job announcement. If it asks for a "Dynamic and motivated personality that can adapt to changing job environments" make sure you add in the words they used in your own qualifications.
 
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Grand Vol said:
Use the keywords from the job announcement. If it asks for a "Dynamic and motivated personality that can adapt to changing job environments" make sure you add in the words they used in your own qualifications.
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good advice. Last night I took all the requirements from the job and pasted them into a doc. I've been adding bullet points to how I match those.

Thing is we're so sheltered in my dept that we do many of the things we just don't use the accepted terminology so I'm having to figure out where I fit. For example, before last night I couldn't have defined Domain-Driven Design but have been doing a form of it for years. Even mapped out a few projects last night where we did exactly that. I've been studying for the past few days
 
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utvolpj said:
good advice. Last night I took all the requirements from the job and pasted them into a doc. I've been adding bullet points to how I match those.

Thing is we're so sheltered in my dept that we do many of the things we just don't use the accepted terminology so I'm having to figure out where I fit. For example, before last night I couldn't have defined Domain-Driven Design but have been doing a form of it for years. Even mapped out a few projects last night where we did exactly that. I've been studying for the past few days
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Biggest thing is not matching the exact requirements, but more to make them related somehow. If I came up with a job I wanted and saw "Have the ability to manage teams of personnel responsible for $7 million in company assets."

And adapt it from my last job:

"Responsible for immediate management of 100 plus personnel engaged in force protection, law enforcement and security for a base populace of 70,000 personnel and $35 billion in critical government assets."

While true, we never had remotely that many people working at any given point. And it's a bit of a stretch to use those personnel numbers, but it's what I "did" by running the show.

And you can see how I matched the keywords from the criteria in my own skill set. So you can stretch a tad and adapt the skill set you have to match generally what the announcement is looking for.
 
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