Confidence booster, resume helper
Stumbled onto this job-search site yesterday and discovered that its form for building a skills-list is a real confidence booster! It has you select an industry, then list skills you've applied in that industry, free-form. After I'd input the second obvious category, I realized, hey, I've worked in many of these industries!
Accounting/Finance -- My first summer job: Administration, bookkeeping, data entry.
Advertising/Public Relations -- A bit for Arbornet, a bit for Careersite: PR, public service, media relations, ad development.
Arts/Entertainment/Publishing
Banking/Finance
Business Development
Clerical/Administrative
College -- At NAIT and CRLT (Center for Research on Learning and Teaching): Instructor, lab assistant, technical support.
Community/Social Services -- Arbornet again: Board member, coordinator, technical support, staff, IT.
Construction/Facilities
Consulting -- One of my big areas (around 10 years): IT, systems, analyst, system administrator, Unix, Linux, Windows, X, Novell, Solaris, AIX, Irix, DCE, DFS, UUCP, Sendmail, mail server, SMTP, LDAP, administration, strategist, consultant, support, ISP, Internet, network management, BGP, ISO, WWW, Web, project coordinator.
Customer Service -- Another big one: IT, Internet, enterprise, tier 2 & 3, account representative, team lead.
Education/Training -- CRLT, Cimage, and NAIT: Instructor, trainer, lab assistant, technical support.
Engineering/Architecture
Entry Level
Food and Catering
Government -- At GDS and independently: Consultant, IT, systems manager, technical support, sysadmin, active citizen, volunteer.
Health Care -- That summer job again: Dta entry, technical support, IT.
Hospitality/Travel
Human Resources
Information Technology -- Who, me? IT, systems, analyst, system administrator, Unix, Linux, Windows, X, Novell, Solaris, AIX, Irix, DCE, DFS, LDAP, Sendmail, mail server, SMTP, administration, strategist, consultant, support, ISP, Internet, network management, BGP, ISO, WWW, Web, project coordinator...
Installation/Maintenance/Repair
Insurance
Internet/New Media -- CareerSite and elsewhere: Content management, design, development, Web, WWW, IT, usability, sysadmin, Apache, WebSphere, CGI, PHP, Perl, Zope.
Law Enforcement/ Security
Legal
Management Consulting
Manufacturing/Production
Marketing
Media/Broadcasting -- Radio, public radio, streaming media, volunteer, technical support.
New Business Ideas -- CareerSite and Netity: Content management, design, development, Web, WWW, IT, usability, HCI, OpenOffice.org.
Non-Profit/ Volunteer -- Arbornet again: Board member, coordinator, technical support, staff, IT.
Pharmaceutical/Biotech
Real Estate -- Briefly, for the Edmonton and Calgary real estate boards: IT, content management, sysadmin, tech support, WWW, Web, file repository.
Research
Retail
Sales
Science
Tech Contract
Technology
Telecommunications
Transportation/Logistics
Other
I could prob'ly claim a couple more of these, but I'm worn out for now!
Accounting/Finance -- My first summer job: Administration, bookkeeping, data entry.
Advertising/Public Relations -- A bit for Arbornet, a bit for Careersite: PR, public service, media relations, ad development.
Arts/Entertainment/Publishing
Banking/Finance
Business Development
Clerical/Administrative
College -- At NAIT and CRLT (Center for Research on Learning and Teaching): Instructor, lab assistant, technical support.
Community/Social Services -- Arbornet again: Board member, coordinator, technical support, staff, IT.
Construction/Facilities
Consulting -- One of my big areas (around 10 years): IT, systems, analyst, system administrator, Unix, Linux, Windows, X, Novell, Solaris, AIX, Irix, DCE, DFS, UUCP, Sendmail, mail server, SMTP, LDAP, administration, strategist, consultant, support, ISP, Internet, network management, BGP, ISO, WWW, Web, project coordinator.
Customer Service -- Another big one: IT, Internet, enterprise, tier 2 & 3, account representative, team lead.
Education/Training -- CRLT, Cimage, and NAIT: Instructor, trainer, lab assistant, technical support.
Engineering/Architecture
Entry Level
Food and Catering
Government -- At GDS and independently: Consultant, IT, systems manager, technical support, sysadmin, active citizen, volunteer.
Health Care -- That summer job again: Dta entry, technical support, IT.
Hospitality/Travel
Human Resources
Information Technology -- Who, me? IT, systems, analyst, system administrator, Unix, Linux, Windows, X, Novell, Solaris, AIX, Irix, DCE, DFS, LDAP, Sendmail, mail server, SMTP, administration, strategist, consultant, support, ISP, Internet, network management, BGP, ISO, WWW, Web, project coordinator...
Installation/Maintenance/Repair
Insurance
Internet/New Media -- CareerSite and elsewhere: Content management, design, development, Web, WWW, IT, usability, sysadmin, Apache, WebSphere, CGI, PHP, Perl, Zope.
Law Enforcement/ Security
Legal
Management Consulting
Manufacturing/Production
Marketing
Media/Broadcasting -- Radio, public radio, streaming media, volunteer, technical support.
New Business Ideas -- CareerSite and Netity: Content management, design, development, Web, WWW, IT, usability, HCI, OpenOffice.org.
Non-Profit/ Volunteer -- Arbornet again: Board member, coordinator, technical support, staff, IT.
Pharmaceutical/Biotech
Real Estate -- Briefly, for the Edmonton and Calgary real estate boards: IT, content management, sysadmin, tech support, WWW, Web, file repository.
Research
Retail
Sales
Science
Tech Contract
Technology
Telecommunications
Transportation/Logistics
Other
I could prob'ly claim a couple more of these, but I'm worn out for now!