On 11-1-2010 16:27, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Christmas is over, 2010 is here, and it's time to move my jobsearch 
> forward.
> 
> As I've written previously a few times, I'm giving up on trying to get 
> hired as a programmer. (It's not like I can go work for Google writing 
> in Haskell...) Instead, I'm going to try to get hired as a system 
> administrator. At least that way I can say "hey, I've been doing this 
> exact job for the last 7 years continuously" rather than "well, I could 
> _probably_ learn this..."
> 
> The first task, then, is to adjust my CV. I wrote it to try to 
> demonstrate what an awesome programmer I am; most of it is completely 
> irrelevant if I'm not trying to be a programmer any more. So in summary, 
> I've just spent an hour working on my CV, and it's now about half the 
> length it was before. o_O
> 
> The trouble is, when I'm trying to be a programmer, I can say "hey, 
> dude! I know Pascal, Prolog, Java, JavaScript, Smalltalk, Tcl, Haskell, 
> Eiffel, pick me! Pick me! I've learned all about data compression, 
> cryptography and cryptanalysis, digital signal processing, database 
> theory, logic design, error-correcting codes, binary data 
> representation, I know stuff about stuff! Pick me!!"
> 
> ...all of which has absolutely nothing to do with just keeping a few 
> servers running. So having just deleted all that stuff off my CV, it 
> looks a tad bare now. :-/
> 
> I suppose now I need to come up with a bunch of keywords to fill my CV 
> with. Stuff like "Active Directory" and "BackupExec" and "Oracle" and 
> "Ethernet". But then my CV ends up just being a soup of keywords. 
> Besides, if I just sit there and spew fourth a long list of technical 
> terms, that just proves that I'm good at looking up technobabble. The 
> most likely response is going to be "yeah? prove it."
> 
> Of course, assuming I ever get my CV sorted out, the next task is to 
> find somewhere to stick it... but I'll worry about that when I get to 
> it. I have at least got one reference to offer people now...

As many people have said: adjust your CV to the situation.
If you would want to apply with us, programming skills would be 
essential. Anyway something went wrong with the submission of the grant 
proposal so you have at least a few more months to definitively decide 
not to leave MK

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