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Yes, j4 is still whinging about jobs. I phoned the University Temporary Employment Services (i.e. cam.ac.uk temp agency) and, obviously, they want me to send them a CV. And now I'm having a crisis of confidence to the effect that my CV is too crap to send to anybody. My current CV looks like this, only it usually looks a bit neater since I've just hastily converted it from Word format to text-only so that people won't whine at me about not being able to see it in Lynx or on their Palm. 8-) I've got several interviews with this CV (usually accompanied by a covering letter or application form), so it can't be utterly hopeless, but. Should I: a) send this CV off, and stop dithering? b) make a few changes (suggestions welcome!)? c) rewrite it completely tonight and send it off tomorrow? [Sorry, not a real poll, because I can't be arsed.] Current Mood: stressed
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From: j4 |
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November 3rd, 2003 08:27 am (UTC)
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We tend to assume (and the wider world may do so as well) that if you don't write much about your current employment then you must hate your job, and you've applied for our vacancy not because you particularly want it, but because you're desperate to get out of what you're doing.
Well, the immediate need is for a CV to send to a temp agency... IME people don't apply to temp agencies because they desperately want to do temp work for the rest of their lives, they apply to temp agencies because they need short-term work! :) I already left my full-time job, because I did hate it; my "current employment" is only freelance work (for the same company, though).
Will try to put a bit more info about the current job though. The problem is it's not very clearly defined what my role is, and I end up getting into a lot of explanation. The thing is, they hired me as an editorial assistant, then I learned Perl and since then I've been an editorial assistant who writes Perl for them, and as such I scuppered all my chances of promotion and got stuck reinventing the same wheel multiple times while they went on about how great it was that they could get me to write code yet they didn't have to pay me as much as they'd pay a software engineer. Hrmph. So I quit (thinking I had another job lined up), and that fell through, and I came back here as a freelancer, and have been stuck here ever since (that was about 6 months ago, dear god, HALF A YEAR of my LIFE wasted).
Urghhhh.
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| From: kaet |
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November 3rd, 2003 11:43 am (UTC)
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Well, I'd employ you!
I'm afraid I'm not very good with these things. I don't know the first thing about HR and my pedantary skills are but week. But though, for these reasons and many, many others, I'll probably never be in a position to do so, it seems to me from your CV like you'd be a useful person to have around, particularly at a Uni. All your work has been academic/learning related, and lots has been text related, and you can do html (might be worth mentioning this, I can't remember if you do), and perl; useful person to have about. They might want you, so that if for example, in some floaty humanities department wanted to put some battered old documents or students' theses on the webternet, you could do the processing, and generate indexing Dublin-Core stylee. It's more important, in situations like that, that you know which side your circumflexes are buttered than the exact purpose of </funky>, but you do need to have proved yourself capable of technical competence, which you have, even to a cynical employer, both at QueStrop and with your personal webpages and stuff.
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