Job ads from The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, LA Times,
NYT, San Jose Mercury News, and The Washington Post can now be
accessed at . Hundreds of new jobs
daily. [SJM, 10/22/95, 6D.]
For Lockheed Martin job openings, see
. The Personnel dept.,
at (408) 742-7173, uses Resumex to match resume keywords with
jobs. [Charles Schulz , 10/17/95.]
(You can increase your chances if you find a good job posting
and copy its buzzwords into your resume. As a rule, your resume
should omit any qualifications that aren't relevant to the job
you are seeking. Shorter is better for human reading, with
a half page being about right. A resume only opens the door;
you've still got to sell yourself in a cover letter or on the
phone. Don't expect a resume to sell you.)
An interesting book is Lynie Arden's "The Work at Home
Sourcebook," (Live Oak, Boulder, CO, 1994), now in its 5th
edition. There's a 24-page section on opportunities for contract
programmers and other computer-based workers. ArtSci, Inc.
(Burbank, CA), for instance, hires contractors to port IBM PC
programs to Macintosh. Other companies want technical writers,
typesetters, proofreaders,medical transcribers, journal indexers,
database maintainers, and notereader-scopists (for court stenotype
transcription). About 133 companies are listed. [10/28/95.]