Ricardo Santos

IT Profession: The resume is your advertisement

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 | IT Profession , Technology | 2 Comments

From this post, I will start a series where I will talk about marketing professional.

For starters, let's talk about the curriculum, because many professionals in this aspect fall short, creating resumes and disorganized with too much information, which complicates the interpretation.

The resume is your advertisement

Imagine you are a product, then your resume is your advertisement. This announcement should cause consumers (recruiter) to buy it (call for interview), of course not forget the ethics: use only truthful information.

Tip 1 - The main thing is you

Leave your name in evidence in the header with a larger font than the other data.

• Full name (in focus)
• Marital Status and Number of Children (if)
• Age (not birth date)
  • If her age can harm him in the post in question (being too young or too old for the desired profile) is preferred not to disclose, so that you will have a greater chance of being interviewed.
• Residence (District and City only)
  • The same applies for residency if you live far from the company, preventing you to be eliminated before an interview.

Tip 3 - Contacts

Tip 4 - Experiments

• Avoid placing experiences that are not linked to activity in which you are looking for.
  Ex: You're looking for a Systems Analyst job and places he worked as a bartender in nightclubs.
• It is not necessary to define with precision the date of entry or exit, just use month / year.
• If the period the company was less than four months, it's worth thinking twice before you put it.

Tip 5 - Organization

• Header with Personal Information and Contacts
• Objective (what you're looking)
• Training (please only the most important, discarding "key")
• Qualification (what it does)
• Certifications
• Experiments (where I worked)
  Business Name, Business Activity, Function, month and year of entry and exit
  What made this task during this time
• Additional Information (languages, courses and experiences extra work)

Tip 6 - Do not be extended

Place only true information and not fill sausage, the more objective and better course. The curriculum should not be longer than two pages.

Tip 7 - Personalize Resume

Have some resumes with different objectives.

In an opening for a Systems Analyst, you should emphasize their skills of analysis, programming, languages, etc.. Already in a place dedicated to customer service, for example, you should focus on their relationship and synthesis capabilities.

Listen to some tips from Max Gehringer on your podcast: Concerns mount curriculum

If have any doubt / question I will be happy to assist you (a).

In the next post will publish a model curriculum and talk a little about resumes

Note: I make it clear that I am no expert in Human Resources, Marketing or Advertising, nor did any course in the area. The information published here were created based on my opinion and experience, but should be accepted only as hints and not as an absolute truth.

Tags: resume , cv , interview , it , profession , ti , vacancies

Linux Dexter's Laboratory

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 | Linux , Technology , Virtualization | 1 Comment

Long ago I have been looking for a solution that allows me to have a Linux system available for my experiences. Until then, I have used VMware Workstation running on my desktop at home.

But this solution is used resources (processing, memory, etc.) to my desktop, and also consumes energy, finally, that wave of virtualization and green computing, this is not the best way.

” passou a ser minha palavra companheira. Anyway, I started to look for accommodation servers VPS , but had to be cheap, after all my money does not grow on trees , so "cheap" is now my word mate.

After a few minutes, I found the SliceBox where the cost of U $ 5.95 per month where you are offered a virtual server with the following characteristics:

• 10GB Space
• 250GB of monthly traffic
• 256MB memory with 128MB guaranteed
• Available systems: Fedora, CentOS, Debian, SuSE or Slackware

Still offer a discount coupon of 33% by lowering the threshold to $ 3.99.

I requested the service, I paid via PayPal and in less than 1 hour was enabled. By default, I placed my CentOS 5, but did not like how, through the administration panel I even changed to 64-bit version of Fedora 10. I waited about 30 seconds and voila, was available.

I have access SSH via root and I want the system. My goal now is to install and configure a webserver that supports PHP , JSP and Ruby on Rails , in order to understand and aprendeter JSP and Rails. Publish here when news of my adventure.

Tags: hosting , Linux , server , slicebox , virtualization , vps