Tips for Great Resume Writing
About the Speaker
Systems Administrator at Oak Ridge National Lab
Michael Campfield is a systems administrator with the National Center for Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Lab. He received his Bachelor and Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Tennessee. Over the last decade in his professional career, he has worked with various state agencies and higher education institutions, along with National Science Foundation projects such as XSEDE. He has recently transferred from the National Institute for Computational Sciences, part of UT's Joint Institute for Computational Sciences at ORNL. As a result of Michael's upbringing in Upstate New York, he only eats sweet cornbread but never drinks sweet tea.
Presentation Resources
You're résumé is prefect, You have red it many times. When it hits my desk. I dont even reed your name, I just start Nit-picking. Buy inch one, I begin to dislike you, but inch 4 I'm sure your triing to make me angry, by in eight, I've taken out the dramamine since you have made me so angry I'm nauseous. This talk is about those simple and not-so simple issues that you insert in to your résumé, the formatting, and from your personal life that make me want to see which of my co-workers recycled it 1st.
Think your resume is perfect? please bring yours four part of this educational and interactive talk where you will be judge, jury and executioner of your own future and move from first on the discard stack to the point where I'm Itching to give you an on-sight interview.
Your resume has as many subtle and not so sublte flaws as the ones that I've inserted in this description and you likely don't know it, no matter how detailed you think you are.
But this talk is about much more than nit-picking flaws. It's about what you can do to make your resume truly stand out in the best possible sense -- in a way that gets your foot in the door for the job and the career that you're seeking. Again, bring at least 2 PRINTED copies of your resume to this talk, pencils will be provided.