HELP! Desperate and Frustrated (long post)

[milanbenes]

Nicola are you involved with Sussex Downs Conservation Board ?

Milan.

[steve'O]

Hey! always like to raise a smile first.

I would guess that no contract after this long means look at the CV.
Keep phoning the Agents, tell them how good you are. And don't limit yourself to one area, tell em you don't mind where you work (Even if you do)
Get some job knowledge out of the Agent, and make yourself fit the job spec.....

[Mordac]

Are you on drugs Beansey?

[Denny]

CV reformat

Ignore the prat just below your enquiry. You don't need that sort of comment.

One of the things I would do is to really scrutinise your CV. You are not in a position to simply list out a wild meandering of roles that combine technie with PM. That's been your mistake so far.

I would suggest the following (for what it's worth!)

On your CV clearly state your role status - whatever that is as a techie. Don't put PM. The begin your CV with a summary of your techie career to date successes and main skills, but add why you took the PM roles. The reason is that you are aware that it is vital in the marketplace today to have rounded skills, business skills in addition to the usual technie stuff. Only mention the bits of your PM roles that's relevant to your technie ambitions. The link is crucial here. Use that to your advantage. Use that part of the summary to reinforce the former not as an addition to the former making you appear as a portfolio careerist. Your PM 'exposure' should be worded to act as a support for your techie roles to act as a foundation for a more rounded techie IT professional that the market is screaming out for (there are too many techie bods with no people skills, or softer management skills that your PM roles would have given you). What better way to demonstrate that than being in the shoes of a PM for a while.

Then list out all your main techie roles to date, leaving appropriate date gaps in your CV for the PM jobs you've taken on (but dates asking to refer to page whatever for details). Don't worry about this because these gaps have already been accounted for, the skills you've used on each and then write a sentence or so beneath those that relate to how your new PM experience would further a similar type of role in the future. At the end of that list only then describe in brief the actual PM role titles to back up the summaries already forwarded under the appropriate summary and technie role lists.

It's all about creative CV planning. If an agent can see you are essentially techie with essential PM ' exposure' (use that word not experience because that implies you want to go on with PM work) then your CV will be positioned as a techie not as a hotch botch of techie turned desparado for work PM that you now regret. That just means 'desparate for the money so I'll take anything I'm offered' a message you don't want enshrined in your CV either as a techie or a PM.

I hope that helps.

[milanbenes]

nah Mordy I just did a search for her on google

Milan.

[steve'O]

[QUOTE=Denny]Ignore the prat just below your enquiry. You don't need that sort of comment.

You are so serious Denny boy! DO we always have to teach people how to write CV'S FFS?

[milanbenes]

Steveeee,

u da man

Milan.

[DimPrawn]

That's more like it. A female posting "HELP! Desperate and Frustrated " on CUK.

[sasguru]

1. Listen to advice above

2. More specifically, this following is the best site for telling you all you need about contractor CVs. Follow the advice on it exactly. The guy knows what he is talking about.

http://www.contractoruk.com/news/00405.html

3. My tuppence worth - Don't worry about altering your job titles slightly. If asked about this later, say that your (new) title was a better description of what you did. This is particularly the case when you want describe a PM role as a Support role. People may be curious about why you downgraded yourself, but if you say that you were being more honest about what you did, it only reflects well on you.
I'm afraid an element of truth-bending is essential, as long as its not a downright lie and you can do the job.

4. Don't be too down on yourself. I've been there before and it does seem like the end of the world, but in retrospect (15 years later), I was wrong to think that. Go out for a drink and have a laugh occasionally.

[Chico]

Whats the quote by Hobbes? Short,nasty and brutish - yep that describes the morons on this board who take delight in the suffering of others. You disgust me.