Tuesday, February 24, 2009

7 mistakes to avoid when applying for that tech job

From Computerworld, February 20, 2009...

My eyes are blurry from reviewing over 40 résumés for a network administrator position, and for good reason. More than half of the résumés did not make it past my initial review. While I had to reject some candidates because of lack of experience (or, rather, lack of clearly demonstrated required experience), others had errors in their application packages that lowered their ranking -- errors that could have been easily corrected.

(And yes, I literally do rank résumés, based on years and type of experience but also on other nontechnical variables such as communications ability.)

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