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Thursday, April 27, 2006

Resume Redo

I need a new resume. It's not bad actually, and it accurately details my positions and accomplishments. The problem? It's a great resume for a Web developer, but I'm at a competitive disadvantage for that type of job. I need to focus on the job opportunities I'd be best at, and my resume better reflect that.

Since I've done Web development for the last six years, you'd think that would be the natural thing to shoot for. But the Microsoft technology I'm best at, Active Server Pages (ASP), is no longer current web technology - ASP.NET is its replacement - and I haven't worked with that. I could land ASP jobs if they existed, which apparently they don't (at least I couldn't find any in this area on dice.com). Large-scale web development, the advertised kind, seems a reach at this point.

However, niche opportunities in web development might still be possible. Individual business units, internal intranet applications, small-business applications - in these cases a solution could be crafted from scratch and ASP technology might be a good fit. (I also know PHP, the dominant scripting language on the Internet.) So in some cases there might be a match.

But obviously my current resume needs refining. I need to determine the niches I'm most competitive for and have my resume reflect that, even if I need different versions slanted toward each niche.

1 Comments:

At 11:10 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

If you need assistance writing your resume, I would recommend EZRezume.com. They've got a great collection of sample resumes, templates and writing tips. Helped me a lot.

 

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