Message #1162

[andrea843]

I too took a look your resume. If you are giving out this link to prospective employers on your existing resume, or via online job companies,  therein lies the problem.  Including your resume on the same website with your journal which describes normal journal like things.... uhhh not good.  The picture of your tatoo does little to further your professional image either.  And Im not trying to slam you Im saying this in the nicest kind of motherly way.



Employers do not WANT to see your tatoo, they do not want to know how many piercings you have and they do not want to read about "the merlot incident of 2000".  While these things are certainly things you're proud of , or you wouldnt have posted them to the WWW, it may well be part of the problem in getting a job in a more conservative environment. And speaking of those piercings, if they are visable, remove them during interviews. Are they your right to free expression? Absolutely! Will they take you out of the running for almost any job that required the least bit of public interaction? umm, unless you're applying at the Gap, you betcha.  Is this illegal? certainly.  Determine whether you're looking for a job or a test case.



Additionally your job history appears short term, (I know, I KNOW it's a given in the dot.com world,) but consider moving to a skills portfolio instead of a traditional resume.



Further if your print resume mirrors this one, there are typos in it, check it over carefully for grammar, and typographical errors. Ask anyone, I am the QUEEN of typos when it comes to message boards, and a bear when it comes to my print documents, particularly that all important resume.



Your skill set appears to be formidable, lose words like "some experience" and change them to "Experienced in" or Experienced with.



Take a hard look at the over all "tone" of the resume for instance take this statement just as an example



Administrative support working with a sub group of five Executive level managers on all special projects, that do not require architectural/technical expertise, and facilitating the growth of the Associate Program.



Why would you point out in a resume what you can't do? While Im sure you were trying to be honest, there might be other ways to address the fact that you weren't the lead admin for this group when it came to architectural/technical expertise.  



Consider moving from your narrative style resume to a bulleted list with less explanation. Use words like Authored, managed, produced, created.  



And move your resume to it's own page, away from the personal information, lose the trendy background, (don't get me wrong I love black backgrounds but not for business documents) you're giving an employer entirely too much access to personal information about you, which may have worked wonderfully in the avante guarde Bay area, but probably isnt going to wash in Seattle.



Best of luck to you, we're here for you to vent with and by the way Welcome to The Admin Authority!



Andrea