<p>Nowadays, with all of the mergers and acquistions going on, a resume can list a large number of companies and yet the employee has been at the same job the whole time!</p>
<p>I’ve worked for a merged entity before, and I’ve simply listed the two companies in one line:</p>
<p>ABC Corporation (formerly XYZ Corporation)</p>
<p>or </p>
<p>ABC Corporation (successor to XYZ), Job Title
XYC Corporation, Job Title</p>
<p>Job description . . .</p>
<p>
Is that true even for technical positions? I’ve heard conflicting things. It seems that technical jobs sometimes require a fairly intricate resume description to get a handle on the size of the project.</p>
<p>“Generally, yes, once you’ve had a permanent job. The exception would be if you did something extraordinary during your internship, or if the internship continued throughout the school year for more than one full year.”</p>
<p>This would be tossing a lot of good skills.</p>
<p>One of the hot things in the tech market is LAMP skills. If you did an internship in LAMP, another in .net and something in research, not advertising those skills and experiences is doing yourself a disservice.</p>
<p>The cool thing about technology is that there aren’t the traditional barriers to doing great or practical things in terms of age and capital. A teenager can start a project that ultimately gets used by hundreds of millions of people. Or that results in a corporation worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Or something more mundane such as racking up experience in a variety of technologies related to game development.</p>
<p>One of the guys that I play tennis with has a son that worked with a bunch of other high-school students on cell-phone games. Their company was bought out by one of the big media companies with the lead programmer offered a position at $200K. My friend’s son worked there for a while and then went to Australia to get his degree. I can’t imagine leaving that kind of experience off a resume.</p>
<p>BCEagle91, I agree that the last paragraph of post #44 would be impressive. However, many other types of college jobs do lose luster after professional experience in other fields. When I was applying for a law position as a lateral move way back when, recruiters would say to leave out all the non law experience, and keep only law related experience. I think that after a full time post college job in whatever, if you are continuing in the same field, other non relevant experience is not that important. </p>
<p>To me, I would want to see at least 2 years at a law firm before a lateral move, if I was hiring a lawyer. Not that less is impossible for a transfer. I don’t hire lawyers now, but I look at resumes of college grads for some of the positions that I do hire for. If someone is a new grad, I do like to see what they did during college, if anything. If they have been out a few years, I still like to see two years or more at a previous position, and a logical reason for the move to the next position.</p>
<p>As soon as I read the article I sent it to my H, who is a prof. I may laugh when reading the article, but he could have written it! He started in 1987 and only in later years has he complained about the students.
They often come to him and say they “need” a B or they “need” a C to graduate. They CAN NOT understand that you EARN a B or C. He has continually had to water down the material until they’re learning much less than his earlier students. More than that, all the other profs have been complaining about it, too. I know it’s not a top school, but it’s not a bad one either. It drives him crazy and we always discuss how the coming generation is going to run the country…
Scary. then we discuss about the jobs being outsourced and how some of the other countries have students who work hard and want to learn…in the tech areas, and math and science and we figure they are going to eat our lunch. Oh, They’ve already started.</p>
<p>“To me, I would want to see at least 2 years at a law firm before a lateral move,”</p>
<p>In technical fields, you can work on projects of a few weeks to a few months and make a big contribution. There are lots of tech people that prefer to work as contractors and consultants because the rates are higher (with lower benefits) and you get a lot of exposure and pick up a lot of skills.</p>
<p>I have no experience in law. But extrapolating experiences in the legal business to everything else probably doesn’t work.</p>