CV again

[j4]

Okay, you're all sick of this by now, but MY JOURNAL, MY WHINGES, okay? (Love me, love my neuroses.)

Updated and enhanced CV here. (It's in Word format, sorry, because I can't format it nicely in plain text and I'm lazy.) Katherine, I haven't turned every negative into a positive, but I've turned it all into neutral-statements-with-positive-sounding-verbs-in ... will that do as a compromise? :-)

I've also added Positions of Responsibility and Other Information -- thanks to emperor for providing grown-up sounding headings. I think those sections of my CV both read a bit crap, though, so again, suggestions welcomed.

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Currently wondering whether to apply for this job with the IWF. I know I could do it, but a) can I convince them that I could do it, and b) do I want to work for the IWF? Not sure.

Update: Yeah, yeah, CV now there with correctly-typed name, ph34r my l337 computing skillz. :-}

Comments

[rbarclay.livejournal.com]

The job description reads a bit weird, especially the "person specification". Do they want an Outlook-drool or a Solaris sysadmin? Those skills usually don't come hand-in-hand, and, more importantly, are IME on very different payscales.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Do they want an Outlook-drool or a Solaris sysadmin?

No idea. I'm neither. I can use M$ stuff no problem, and I'm competent with Unix as a user -- maybe even good, I don't know; I don't really have any points of comparison except the people round here, who all wrote their own versions of Unix for the C64 when they were about 6 months old, or rewrote grep in Lego, or connected their cot to the internet, or whatever. But what I know about sysadminning would fit on the back of a postage stamp.

Those skills usually don't come hand-in-hand, and, more importantly, are IME on very different payscales.

The salary's £18-20k, which is a vast fortune as far as I'm concerned, so you certainly wouldn't catch me complaining there.

[rbarclay.livejournal.com]

I'm competent with Unix as a user -- maybe even good, I don't know; I don't really have any points of comparison except the people round here, who all wrote their own versions of Unix for the C64 when they were about 6 months old, or rewrote grep in Lego, or connected their cot to the internet, or whatever.

Heh. Exactly as I felt when I started at $ISP. And it's just screaming to be put into a .sig somehow.

The salary's £18-20k, which is a vast fortune as far as I'm concerned, so you certainly wouldn't catch me complaining there.

If the salary's really good, I'd probably phone them and give the job a try if possible. Money can compensate for some of the downsides of a job (not all of them, of course). And tracing stuff across the 'net should be interesting and instructive for a couple months, if you're new to it. Maybe there's even a sysadmin position waiting to be filled there.

But that's me, which of course you're not.