How many resumes??

[The Heretic]

What is the most amount of resumes you have sent out before getting a job?

So far I think I have exceeded 500+ and still no job.

 

[Monazwx]

I've only sent out about 5 so far, but I'm still working on perfecting my resume.

 

[HeavyStick]

http://www.boeing.com/flash.html



I put a basic resume using their online system. I get 30-50 job offers a week from 35-65K a year starting.

Good luck.

 

[loveyamon]

What is the most amount of resumes you have sent out before getting a job?

So far I think I have exceeded 500+ and still no job.

ZERO- for me I've been self-employed most of my adult life.I do have some unemployed computer friends that have been looking for over a year now.. They often, and rightly so express thier frustration about this dilemma.

 

[The Heretic]

I've only sent out about 5 so far, but I'm still working on perfecting my resume.

I've been wondering if the problem was my resume, but I've had a number of recruiting, HR and tech people look it over and they all said it was good. I just recently jazzed it up a bit trying to market myself better by adding in some self-marketing language - but I think right now I have several things going against me:

1) I don't have the XML, Web devo, etc. - buzzwords on my resume like most other Java developers.

2) I took that year off and now I have been unemployed for 2 years. People look at that gap and wonder why I have been unemployed so long.

3) I have applied for QA/Test positions, but I am afraid they think I am overqualified for those positions. I also apply for the manager positions in QA/Test as I am not over qualified for those, but there are far fewer of those than the simple engineer/tester positions.

4) For every job offered there are about a thousand Java developers sending resumes in for the position.

 

[The Heretic]

http://www.boeing.com/flash.html



I put a basic resume using their online system. I get 30-50 job offers a week from 35-65K a year starting.

Good luck.

Maybe in Florida, but I live right next to the largest Boeing plant in the country (the 777 assembly line) and half the people around here are laid off Boeing people - including Lost Cause. It is one of the reasons why Washington has one of the worst unemployment rates - that and all the Java developers laid off from dot coms around here.

 

[HeavyStick]

Maybe in Florida, but I live right next to the largest Boeing plant in the country (the 777 assembly line) and half the people around here are laid off Boeing people - including Lost Cause. It is one of the reasons why Washington has one of the worst unemployment rates - that and all the Java developers laid off from dot coms around here.

Sorry to hear that.

I work with Lasers, Electro-Optical, and Infrared.

 

[Monazwx]

Whoa, that's tough Heretic.

Question - Do you have more than one resume or one generic one?
For the QA job(s), you may want to emphasize what they're looking for and leave out the information that shows that you're overqualified. Also, focus on how your skills contribute to their organization and not the skills themselves.

I'm looking for more info. on resumes to send over to you.

 

[The Heretic]

Whoa, that's tough Heretic.

Question - Do you have more than one resume or one generic one?

I have one resume, but it is written such that it works well either way. There is some crossover, especially with XP (Extreme Programming) and TDD, so it doesn't hurt to emphasize both aspects of my experience. Indeed, the few interviews I have gotten have been for crossover positions.

For the QA job(s), you may want to emphasize what they're looking for and leave out the information that shows that you're overqualified. Also, focus on how your skills contribute to their organization and not the skills themselves.

I am just speculating on the overqualified aspect - no feedback to that respect, yet. What I do know is that because they have so many people to choose from they just use any little reason to disqualify someone.

It is really tough in the current environment because there is so little feedback. The few places I have gotten feedback from indicate that they have gotten 500+ resumes for every position they advertise, and they can afford to pick and choose to match their exact needs.

 

[Gil_Favor]

I have sent out about 50 resumes in the past year, I finally gave up trying to find something in my field and took a job totally unrelated to anything I have ever done. Even though it is less money, Im finally doing something that I enjoy. Next step for me is to become self-employed.Good Luck Heretic.

 

[Lasz]

I never seem to get jobs because of my resume. It always seems to be because of a friend of a friend that I get the job. I would like to get a job soon considering I am graduating in 10 months.

 

[The Heretic]

I never seem to get jobs because of my resume. It always seems to be because of a friend of a friend that I get the job. I would like to get a job soon considering I am graduating in 10 months.

Networking is very helpful. I have gotten one job out of five in the last 15 years by a networking contact rather than by my resume, and had a recent interview via a networking contact, and I have gotten several other people jobs because I knew them well enough to recommend them.

But right now networking doesn't work too well when most of the people I know who would help me get my foot in the door are unemployed themselves.

 

[kotori]

I was contacted today by a headhunter who had a job in Saudi Arabia. I think his timing might be a little off.

 

[The Heretic]

I was contacted today by a headhunter who had a job in Saudi Arabia. I think his timing might be a little off.

I get contacted by recruiters who have positions that are either someplace I can't go (Tokyo), or don't want to go (Florida, Nevada), or for positions that I totally unqualified for (recruiters in general don't know their anal orifice from a hole in the ground with regards to tech).

Yeah I could bullshit the recruiter as to my qualifications, but you can't bullshit a knowledgable interviewer - and all that would do is waste my time and theirs, and probably piss them off.