Robin Blandford [ ByteSurgery.com - Digital Media Engineering ]

30/01/08 CV For Tech: Training & Research

SINGAPORE - Part III (see all parts). It’s all about the ageing process. The last thing you want to do is make people imagine you in their head at age 16, with braces, your school bag on your back, grass stains on your knees. This section used to be called ‘Education’ but that conjures up images of school days. Get it off your CV. This section is now called ‘Training & Research’.

Along with your school days you can dump your high school exam grades. If you’ve a good degree and some work experience it will eclipse it anyway. Get them off, they are not hiring you when you did your leaving cert (unless you are still an undergraduate? Then leave them on). I scrapped this block off and into the bin…

# 1995 - 2001, Leaving Certificate, Sutton Park School, Dublin 13.
5 Higher Level: Technical Graphics (A2), Physics (B2), Biology (B1), Applied Mathematics (C2), Mathematics (C3). 3 Ordinary Level: English (B3), French (B3), Irish (C3).

I talk about my University degree under core themes not subjects. Again, you don’t want an image appearing in their head of you sitting in a lecture hall bored to tears with the mention of ‘EE204 Electromagnetism II’. These themes can generally come from your course brochure.

Core Themes: Media-data processing & end user systems, telecommunication networks, hardware design, software engineering, mathematics and sciences, integrative & experimental work and new enterprise development.

I’ve been very lucky to receive some serious ‘on the job’ professional training and have been able to add that as a section. I have also noted my industry specific training, as this is the industry I’m applying for a job in - note my climbing, short range radio and scout leadership training are not relevant or mentioned, they are for interview fodder.

Here we go, here’s the new version:

NEW

TRAINING & RESEARCH

First Class Honours (1:1) - B.Eng. in Digital Media Engineering (Bachelor Honours Degree), Dublin City University, 2006.

• Final Year Project: Awarded the ‘Ericsson Medal’ for the best design of novel web/telephony services by adding functionality to an Asterisk PBX. Involving soft/hard handsets interacting with a web-based service that provides service control and execution.
• Core Themes: Media-data processing & end user systems, telecommunication networks, hardware design, software engineering, mathematics and sciences, integrative & experimental work and new enterprise development.

Professional Training

• Soft Skills: Problem Solving & Decision Making, Effective Presentations, Advanced Report Writing, Effective Meetings, Providing & Receiving Feedback, Time Management, Capital Markets and Project Management Fundamentals.
• Industy Specific: World of Reuters Data, Reuters Xtra 3000, Reuters Networks & Systems and Reuters Graduate Academy.

Coming next in part IV is INDUSTRY AWARDS.

-Robin.

(Image Credit: Exploring Hindu Temples last weekend at Batu Caves, Mayalsia. By Author.)

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2 Comments

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14/03/08 Steve Ellwood

Excellent series Robin.
Sadly enough, I noticed your school - Sutton Park - I went there for a year. In 1966, I think.

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14/03/08 Robin Blandford

Hi Steve wow! 1966… incredible!

They had their 50 year anniversary last December.

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