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The best resume is no resume. Don't tell me where you've worked show me what you've made. Don't tell me what certificates you have, show me what you can do no.
by mkramlich 16y ago
The best resume is no resume. Don't tell me where you've worked show me what you've made. Don't tell me what certificates you have, show me what you can do no. The best way for me to know what you can do in the future is to see what you've done in the past, and are doing right now. I hope resumes die out. At least in software anyway.
On a related note, I think I just might be at a point in my career where I never need to send a resume out ever again. I definitely bias to not sending them. I think resumes are, like the commute-9-to-5-yes-boss job paradigm, just another relic of the Industrial Age for blue collar workers.
Can you imagine Roger Waters of Pink Floyd "applying" for a job as a musician/singer? "Sir, you'll have to fill out this form and submit a resume, k thanks." He hands them The Wall, Dark Side of the Moon, etc. "Sorry sir, not good enough. Yo have to eat all your meat like everyone else otherwise we can't give you any pudding."
- GFischer 16y agoWell, you might have heard the story about how C creator Ken Thompson was asked to take a mandatory language test at Google before being able to check-in code :) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/21/ken_thompson_take_our_test/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/21/ken_thompson_take_ou...
- mkramlich 16y agoToo funny. I could see a recruiter asking him how many years of professional C programming experience he has: Ken: "Uh... 37 years?" Recruiter: "Liar!"