How many years experience do you have, Atomikrin?
10+ years Excel experience.
* VBA macro coding
* Pivot Tables
* Queries
I can do it all.
7+ years experience in manufacturing in both a hands on and Engineering/design capacity
~1 year Lean experience
Currently studying Industrial Engineering at Cal State University, with academic experience in physics, chemistry, computer programming, and calculus level mathematics
If any of that sounds useful to you then I'd be very interested in talking more.
Put up an ad for a Associate Shipper/Receiver position. It's a pretty solid job with good benefits and compensation. We get a promising resume in right away, arrange an in-person interview the next day. Don't bother showing up. No phone call or email. No communication. If you aren't interested, something's come up, whatever it is just have a bit of courtesy and let us know.
They've probably been on the receiving end of that so many times they think it's just the way things are done. To be honest, it pretty much is. If your company lets every applicant know when a position has been filled, then it's an anomaly (a good one though).
10+ years Excel experience.
Well, first, I wanted to say that usually something like 2-4 years experience is considered equivalent to a Bachelor's degree. So there's that. 
Second, I work for an Alaska Native Corporation operating in the Federal spaces, and our parent company handles hiring for about 40 companies under it that do all sorts of work for the government, much of it involving IT and other processes. Great bennies, steady work. Their job information is posted weekly here.
For example, here's one which requires "strong Excel experience" and a high school education.
There are others. Searching on "Excel" yields this list.
I hope this helps! Again, relevant experience in major parts of the job count as a degree after about 4-5 years, or even less.
Well it happened. First technician with unique expertise in our group got a job offer from Blue Origin (he said it was a 'walk out right now' kind of offer)... Our group will loose all the mid career folks over the next year or two if this goes the same way as Kennedy Space Center's folks. The older folks will retire... the younger folks will probably find other higher paying companies to work for.
Although I had been not happy with the way NASA has treated our group, it's loss is a real loss for the industry... no one else is doing what we do. The industry will suffer for it.
I'm probably safe if I wanted to stay as they need folks to ask the right questions when contractors show us test results to keep things from going boom... but that's not really a fulfilling job.
Blue Origin are hiring like mad at the minute. I just left my 15 year Boeing job for a consultancy gig who are sending me to? Blue Origin. Whom themselves asked to interview me the same week I accepted the consultancy job.
I'm not the first Boeing mid/senior engineer to make that jump up here either - there's been a spate of them.
For me, it wasn't about money so much as just needing something different. 15 years is a long-ass time to be in the same place.
For me, it wasn't about money so much as just needing something different. 15 years is a long-ass time to be in the same place.
Speaking as someone who's been working at the same place for the past 23 years: Yes.
Jonman wrote:For me, it wasn't about money so much as just needing something different. 15 years is a long-ass time to be in the same place.
Speaking as someone who's been working at the same place for the past 23 years: Yes.
I might be sliiiiiiightly biased on this point, but do it. Pull the ejector handle.
Blue Origin are hiring like mad at the minute. I just left my 15 year Boeing job for a consultancy gig who are sending me to? Blue Origin. Whom themselves asked to interview me the same week I accepted the consultancy job.
I'm not the first Boeing mid/senior engineer to make that jump up here either - there's been a spate of them.
For me, it wasn't about money so much as just needing something different. 15 years is a long-ass time to be in the same place.
I've heard some things about how they burn out folks, would love to here a real opinion instead of a rumor if you ever feel like sharing after you get in to it a bit.
There are only like 6 companies in my area that actively want my expertise... Blue is one of them.
Have there been any major changes to resume formats or expectations in 10 years?
Manta, I would not be surprised if that is true. Amazon has had that well earned reputation for years.
I've heard some things about how they burn out folks, would love to here a real opinion instead of a rumor if you ever feel like sharing after you get in to it a bit.
This is why I'm happier to take the consultancy gig than go there for the forseeable. Burnout was why i quit Boeing and I'm hoping the shorter term nature of consulting will go some distance to prevent that from recurring.
I'll let you know how I find it. Anecdotally, i have a couple of friends-of-friends who've been there for years and love it.
Have there been any major changes to resume formats or expectations in 10 years?
I can’t imagine the fundamentals are any different. Write it in a way that makes someone want to talk to you. Don’t list role responsibilities, mention interesting things you’ve done and important results. Don’t be so buzzword-heavy that it’s hard to tell if you actually know what you’re talking about or if you just cut’n’pasted from the Interwebs. Emphasize skills and achievements that are relevant to the role you are applying for.
Mixolyde wrote:Have there been any major changes to resume formats or expectations in 10 years?
I can’t imagine the fundamentals are any different. Write it in a way that makes someone want to talk to you. Don’t list role responsibilities, mention interesting things you’ve done and important results. Don’t be so buzzword-heavy that it’s hard to tell if you actually know what you’re talking about or if you just cut’n’pasted from the Interwebs. Emphasize skills and achievements that are relevant to the role you are applying for.
Not that I have seen. As someone that has been looking through interns and manager resume submittals recently for the engineering field. It seems as if most people don't understand the basics of a resume, so anything mildly competent still stands out. Saw a guide online on how to build one that was just put out a few months ago that literally used the same formatting mine has had since like 2002.
Good to know. Thanks, everyone.
It seems as if most people don't understand the basics of a resume, so anything mildly competent still stands out.
Ain’t that the friggin truth. I hate going through resumes because the ones that make it to me - the ones that are already screened - are almost uniformly terrible.
@Mix, just in case:
- Spellcheck is necessary but not sufficient. You also need to reread (and rereread) to make sure your spellcheck didn’t do something student.
- If you’re over two pages, you’d best be spectacular, and in ways that can’t be succinctly demonstrated. I have yet to see a resume that should have been more than three pages.
- Check your formatting and your fonts. Those are the interview clothes for your resume. If you give a stellar interview in sweat pants, that may not be better than a good interview in a suit.
- If you aren’t a native speaker of the language you’re writing your resume in, have a native speaker proofread and edit it. Please.
Every company I've been at since the 90's has received resumes in Comic Sans. No lie.
Has any of those companies actually hired someone who sent in a resume in Comic Sans?
Not that I'm aware of. Not even the ones who mentioned employees they know.
Garamond is the best font for a resume. Change my view!
I’d be happy reading boring stuff in Garamond.
Wing Dings, duh!
PAPYRUS
If it's good enough for James Cameron, it's good enough for you.
Not set in stone yet... but I'm most likely moving out of the job I have to a related company... for a 53% raise... like wow am I glad they have been enough of a pain lately in order for me to dust of my resume.
For those that have left a long-time employer, how did you know it was the right time to jump? What was your internal monologue?
For those that have left a long-time employer, how did you know it was the right time to jump? What was your internal monologue?
The three-day long panic attack was a strong hint.
Also the several prior years of being bored, listless and disengaged with the work, but yeah, the mental health crisis was pretty unignorable.
"Hey, that guy is doing what I do for $30K more!"
For those that have left a long-time employer, how did you know it was the right time to jump? What was your internal monologue?
I left daily journalism last summer after almost 30 years, 26 with the same paper.
In the back of my head I knew that things at my paper were never going to get better and would always manage to get worse. Tings had been bad for years, but I put up with it because, well, I'm a journalist, and the profession has always prized a bit of suffering. Long hours and lousy pay was what you put up with to keep the public informed.
Last summer, I was having lunch with a former colleague who had gone on to be a freelance writer. She had been bugging me for a couple of years to come work with her. She told me, if you quit, there's plenty of work out there for you. But I've pretty much given up on you ever leaving the paper.
I gave notice a month later.
I don't know exactly what it was about that conversation that got me to get up off my ass. Maybe I had been holding onto that lifeline for a while and finally realized it was going to get yanked up and the rescue ship was going to sail off without me.
Anyway, I was glad I did it. 10/10 would do it again.
Top_Shelf wrote:For those that have left a long-time employer, how did you know it was the right time to jump? What was your internal monologue?
The three-day long panic attack was a strong hint.
Also the several prior years of being bored, listless and disengaged with the work, but yeah, the mental health crisis was pretty unignorable.
Thanks for sharing this.
I'm now resolved I'm getting out.
First chat with a recruiter next week, updating resume and have begun reaching out to my network.
I'm nervous but it's exciting.
Has anyone ever used an executive coach/recruiter before to hunt for you? If yes, what's been your experience?
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