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

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Good grief, I'd definitely put that on -- it's good for general stuff like communication and confidence and stuff surely?

These things are matters of opinion and yours is as valid as anyone else's. It just seems a little... well, wacky to me. Somehow geeky good, wacky bad, y'know?

The point about helping to organise a convention overseas, international teamwork and so forth is very valid; I don't have to mention that it was a Harry Potter event on the CV and can bring it up at interview. However, the world can be very closed-minded on this issue (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3109530.stm). It's sad, really.

LJ: I would be tempted to mention it for jobs where writing skills would be heavily tested. On the other hand, this makes the "write what you feel like writing" / "write to impress" divide even harder to straddle. Perhaps there might be value in the concept of polishing up some LJ entries as more general writing samples.

[j4.livejournal.com]

The impression I get from the article you link to is that they're warning against people trying to make themselves look interesting by merely listing lots of weird and wacky interests. Which you wouldn't be doing; you'd be using it to highlight your amazing range of talents: organising events, organising people, designing and running games (things like "carrying a project through from planning to implementation" I think are the sort of thing you want here), communicating information, getting other people interested and enthusiastic about something (there's better buzzwords for this but that part of my brain has switched off, sorry), and so on, and so forth. I think if you include all that it probably doesn't matter if you mention the content/context.

Perhaps there might be value in the concept of polishing up some LJ entries as more general writing samples.

Personally I'd stick that kind of thing on a separate website. I have some of my writing on my website and if I wanted to impress people with my writing I'd probably add to that; bear in mind, though, that everybody else knows the WWW (and blogs) have no quality control... :-) I suspect that writing articles for a newsletter or something (even for the Harry Potter Fan Club) might carry more weight than "I write stuff, here, it's on the web". But I don't know. I don't really apply for stuff like that.

Anyway, you've had books published; you don't need to point at LJ to prove you can write!

And since I haven't managed to get a job I'm probably in no position to advise here... so feel free to ignore all this. Sigh.