Sunday of my Life

So we draw close to the end. After two gruelling years of further education, I come close to the end of my qualifications. Five weeks to go. All I need to do then is go and sit my CCNA and RHCT exams externally and I have my full swag of qualifications. I want to do my AusTel Data Cabling certification, but that’s not essential. Would be nice, though.

So now we come to what is possibly the least fun part of the whole game. Assembling my resume. My curriculum vitae. My Document O’ Bragging, as I sometimes think of it. It’s never easy to put a resume together from scratch. What do you put in? What don’t you? I have a lot of qualifications I can list, and everyone loves to see previous job experience, right? When it comes time to put the application letters out there I’m going to be saturating a couple of different industry sub-sectors (not-for-profit and education) with my name.

In times past I’ve applied for a hundred jobs in one go, and gotten three interviews. This I attribute to my resume, my lack of qualifications beyond high-school and my Audio Engineering diploma (which, admittedly, is not useful in all but a select subset of jobs). Now I have qualifications and I have experience (that I’m not planning on admitting to), and so it begins. It’s time to write. If anyone reading has advice on doing it right, drop a comment in, or contact me offline. I think the sum-total of my readership has those details anyway. I also think there’s an ‘email the author’ link around here somewhere. Have a look. I’d love to hear from you.

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