This evening I found the first job in ages that's really been up my street. I noticed several variations of an advertised role but wanted to know a bit more about it to convince myself it was worth applying for. As ever, Google came up trumps, and I was soon browsing the company's own extended advert for the role. And hey presto I was able to bypass the middleman and apply directly with an emailed CV. The role actually sounds really interesting, especially compared to the generic programming job adverts I've got sick to death of reading over the past 3 months. The company seems to be a good place to work too, even though it is in beautiful Bracknell.
They are looking for computer science graduates, but are willing to consider other disciplines with relevant experience. Well with five years experience of C - 12 months of that commercial and on Linux - and a hat-full of modules in the software field (all at first-class honours) I'm sure they will at least consider me.
To make sure of that though I had to ensure my CV was absolutely spot-on for this role. When I rewrote my CV in June I stripped out most of the detail about my course, and put in some references to the my MDDP masters project which had almost sod-all to do with my course. So I've re-written it again and replaced the MDDP guff with a bullet-list of software modules and my results. Hell I hadn't even listed the languages I have under my belt. For generic IT roles though this wasn't important, but the roles I'm looking at more recently are very specific about their requirements.
Reviewing my 'Career Aspirations' section I realised that it wasn't really selling myself for the type of Software Engineering role that Whitecross are offering. It was a bit wishy washy to be honest. So that's had an overhaul too and I'm much happier with it.
So with cautious optimism I emailed my CV with a short cover note. I'll probably re-post my CV to the various Job Directory sites to see if it I get some more feedback from agencies.
Once again those fingers are crossed. I've put my CV online here and I'd appreciate any feedback. click on 'have a word' below.
Posted by jonah at September 4, 2003 11:47 PM | TrackBack