With my part time ISP support job winding up this month I am smartening up my resume and arming myself for job search.
My resume hasn’t been touched for 7 years – that was the last time I used it, when my position at the bank was made redundant and I switched careers and found a job with an ISP. There are things in that resume that I only have vague recollection about – like the “Designing Interactive Web Applications” through Brisbane TAFE back in Feb 2000. I wouldn’t mind revisiting that one, just out of curiousity!
I’d forgotten about the employee awards I’d received at the bank – for accuracy, attention to detail, being a team player and reaching the milestone of “100 days of error-free cash handling” from my time as a bank teller! All that stuff seems like it was in another lifetime, but I must remember to look at it again when I need a boost of self-confidence.
I remember when the job at the bank ended, I swore never to return to a banking job! I was very pleased to find work in a different industry, and I felt sorry for my colleagues who went to work for another bank when all our jobs went. Times change and I don’t think I would mind a part-time job in a local bank branch if it helped bring in some money, was close by and left me enough time to do my study and web work.
So I’m brushing up my resume writing skills. Here are some good resources I’ve found:
- How to write a masterpiece of a resume – Rockport Institute
- Resume writing – The basics – CareerOne