A System That's Saving My Ass
Oct. 5th, 2014 01:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neadodsPeople seem to be interested in reading some of the systems I've created, and today a very old one is absolutely saving my ass.
On my computer, in the same folder with my resumes, is a Word table titled "career data." It has the month/year that each job started and ended, the name of the company, and the name(s) of my supervisors. It also has the resume writeup I used when that job was fresh and new.
Setting it up was a pain in the patoot; maintaining it literally only takes a couple of minutes, because when I write the resume I just copy/paste over and fill in the names of any new people I work for.
So here I am, working on a brand new federalized resume, and just when I'm thinking "fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck, I can't remember what I did in 1999" I've got this lovely database holding my job description when it was fresh and new and I was trying to make it sound sexy. It's not doing the rewrite work for me, but it's sure making the rewrite go a lot easier than if I had to reconstruct the problem-action-outcome-keywords from a now-shrunken blurb from 6 jobs ago.
On my computer, in the same folder with my resumes, is a Word table titled "career data." It has the month/year that each job started and ended, the name of the company, and the name(s) of my supervisors. It also has the resume writeup I used when that job was fresh and new.
Setting it up was a pain in the patoot; maintaining it literally only takes a couple of minutes, because when I write the resume I just copy/paste over and fill in the names of any new people I work for.
So here I am, working on a brand new federalized resume, and just when I'm thinking "fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck, I can't remember what I did in 1999" I've got this lovely database holding my job description when it was fresh and new and I was trying to make it sound sexy. It's not doing the rewrite work for me, but it's sure making the rewrite go a lot easier than if I had to reconstruct the problem-action-outcome-keywords from a now-shrunken blurb from 6 jobs ago.
