Dumbing Down a Resume

[mjohnson4381]

Originally Posted by artsyguy

Networking is very overrated. You have to be best friends with someone in human resources or related to the CEO in some way.

Maybe you're right. I guess I was lucky with the last person I networked with...he was friends with the CEO. I probably won't be that lucky again.

[artsyguy]

Originally Posted by mjohnson4381

Maybe you're right. I guess I was lucky with the last person I networked with...he was friends with the CEO. I probably won't be that lucky again.

[yellowsnow]

I think I would be studying for the CPA exam, myself. Pass that and you will have many more doors open to you, including being self employed.

In the meantime, you need a survival job that's just hours on the clock. Punch in and punch out. No heavy responsibilities so you can study in your free time. Bank teller would be great. Tailor your resume to the position. No degrees....that will just make the hiring manager squirm. Mostly worrying that you are more qualified for their position than they are.

[janman345]

Originally Posted by mjohnson4381

I guess it wouldn't hurt to at least start studying. The books and review materials are sooo expensive, but I guess I could tell myself that it's an investment. Even though I'm starting to doubt that forking over thousands of dollars to become more educated really helps a person get a job these days.

I spent about 1500$ on my PE all out of pocket and it has not paid off yet but without it I have a lower likely hood of making big money. If it never pays off (which is highly doubtful) I have my fiance and my health and we have alot of fun that does not cost any money if you know what I mean . Also when you have a bonified certification, experience and education you tend to give off more confidence and at a certian point view yourself above your employer, you are the professional they are just a medium with which you get your pay check. When you view yourself a certian way you speak differently and act differently.

warrner von braun was just a german citizen building rockets in his back yard and he headed up the US space program, if you become bad a** then you will view it as you interviewing your employer, and think things like is this organization competent enough to support me and of course will the compensation be worth it. I turned down a job for a 20k (also 20k is not even in the ball park of enough money to get me to jump) raise because they said something to me in a phone interview that raised a red flag of incompetence and would have been unethical for me to perform so I dont want my reputation assocated with an organization like that. I have a friend who works there and he said they are suffering for their incompetence right now, every one is trying to cut corners to save money to grease the share holder hands and im not going to have my name attached to something unsafe or stupid just because some manager wants to install substandard parts to save money.