IT Resume Makeover: Position your accomplishments for maximum impact

Cloud adoption continues apace | How to fish for (and land) IT talent November 06, 2014 INSIDER Alert Your guide to the top content posted this week for Insider members ITworld IT Resume Makeover: Position your accomplishments for maximum impact Cameron Tate's is a seasoned IT leader. His resume was thorough, well-organized and detailed, but he wasn't getting the responses his extensive experience and impeccable credentials warranted. Enter Caitlin Sampson, a career consultant and professional resume writer at Regal Resumes. When she saw Tate's resume, she identified the problem immediately. "Cameron had created a thorough overview of his IT C-suite experience, yes, but in the initial read-through, it became clear that the valuable information was buried in bullet points," says Sampson.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE Computerworld Cloud adoption continues apace Cloud adoption is increasing as companies identify more IT operations they want to migrate. However, the pace and implementation focus vary according to company size, industry and job titles of parties involved, while security concerns persist as the top challenge to deployment, according to a new survey of 1,672 IT decision-makers.The results of IDG Enterprise's survey represent the practices and opinions of technology buyers whose organizations already have, or plan to have, at least one application or some portion of their infrastructure in the cloud. (IDG Enterprise is the parent organization of Computerworld.)Overall, some 56% of companies are still in the process of identifying IT operations that they want to migrate to the cloud. But more companies are finished with the process now -- 38% compared to 33% last year.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE CIO How to fish for (and land) IT talent Organizations tend to fall into two categories when it comes to posting job openings: those with crappy job ads and those that have a clue. CIOs who have a clue are involved in the process rather than relying solely on an HR admin to "post something on the site." Steve Heilenman, CIO at Computer Aid, a privately held global IT services provider, not only has a clue; he successfully hires 20 to 30 people each year for his IT team, in a company that annually hires 300 to 500 employees overall. How? Steve writes the job descriptions for his direct reports and reviews every IT job posting. "We try to include as much as possible from actual descriptions in advertisements so that the candidate can get a good understanding of the role and our expectations," Heilenman  says. "It is just as important for the candidate to feel comfortable with the role as it is for us to feel good about the candidate."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE CIO IT resumes: Lies, half-truths and embellishments As the old saying goes, a lie may take care of the present, but it has no future. Nowhere is this truer than when conducting a job search. In a hyper-competitive talent market, it can be tempting to embellish your work history, exaggerate your IT skills or even claim to hold advanced degrees if it'll give you an edge over other job seekers. Unfortunately however, even if these lies manage to go unnoticed at first, they'll many times catch up with; potentially landing you back among the ranks of the unemployed with a bad reputation according to Tracy Cashman, senior vice president and partner of Information Technology Search at WinterWyman."The unemployment rates have been the lowest since 2008, but the job market is still competitive enough to make some job seekers feel like they need to embellish their resumes. In some cases, for the long-term unemployed, they can feel desperate and they're only thinking in the short-term, not the long-term impact of what'll happen if they're found out," says Cashman. A recent CareerBuilder survey found that 58 percent of the 2,188 hiring managers and HR professionals have caught a lie on a candidate's resume; 33 percent of these employers have seen an increase in resume embellishments in the post-recession era.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE JOIN THE IDG CONTRIBUTOR NETWORK The IDG Contributor Network is a collection of blogs written by leading IT practitioners about the technology, business opportunities and challenges you face everyday. We invite you to participate by applying to be a contributor today. READ MORE Get more Insider content from these brands: CIO | ITworld | Computerworld | CSO | InfoWorld | Network World You are currently subscribed to idge_insider_newsletter as garn14.tech@blogger.com. 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