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Discontinued Master's Degree on resume
I've been working as a software engineer at a government organization for ten years since graduation. Now I am looking for a new job and i need to work on my resume. There is one minor detail i am not ...
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Is further education and training only my responsibility? [duplicate]
Some time ago I read an article like "Your career is your responsibility and yours alone" and I wonder if this is true.
I work as software developer but the company I work for never spend any time ...
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How to encourage people to visit conferences or do anything else to improve skills?
We're a small team of around 15-20 people. Around 70% of them is really passionated in what they're doing, visit conferences, spend even their weekends on hackathons and have a big progress in their ...
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“You're overqualified” - What does that really mean?
I recently had a phone interview for a subcontracting job at a small programming consulting firm. The interview was very short, and at the end, the interviewer told me that based on my resume, he ...
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When does 'college attended' matter less?
I went to a relatively small college for undergrad. I graduated magna cum laude there and was one of the top students in my program.
The problem is that while the school is pretty well known in the ...
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Having a degree in a non-english country, should I translate it to english in the cv?
If I have a degree whose original name is in another language than english, should I translate it to english (talking about international cv) or write it with its original name?
Actually I'm writing ...
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How can a self taught programmer beef up the education section on a resume?
I'm a self taught programmer with 6 years of professional development experience. Due to only having an Associates of Arts degree, the "education" portion of my resume is bare. I already have a ...
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Getting experience (when internships and open-source volunteering are unavailable)
It seems like in many careers, the best way to get a job ... is to already have one; (setting up an enraging Catch 22). Obviously for some careers, there are easy ways around this. In programming, ...
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What is a “subject matter expert”?
I came across this on the USAJOBS site, and mostly I'm curious, because it sounds like a fairly open-ended term to include on their "profile".
The ordering of the options on the site makes it ...
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Degree equivalency in resume
I just graduated in Greece and applying for a job in UK. The exact title of my degree is Diploma of Electric and Computer Engineering (4.5 years of study plus one semester for a thesis).
I fear ...
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What should I do if I think a group of colleagues is being discriminated against?
I'm a teacher in schools for deaf people. In one of the previous schools I taught at, we faced an organizational situation that I thought originated from the management's distrust towards our deaf ...
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What kind of business fields are available to a programmer who no longer wants to program? [duplicate]
I'm graduating soon with a Bachelor's in Software Engineering, however during the course of getting my degree I decided I do not want to be a programmer.
I minored in Business Management and really ...
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Effectively adding “Self-taught” skills on your Resume
I am preparing my resume for development jobs.
I have several self-taught skills that I need to add to my resume. I am not sure how to articulate these items on it. The only technical school I have ...
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Online MSC from a top school vs. in-person from unranked
I am at crossroads with my education career, and am seeking your advice.
I work full-time as a senior software engineer, and completed one semester of MSC from an unranked (for CS, decent otherwise) ...
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Showing online certificates like Coursera on a CV/resume
Coursera offers quite a lot of very interesting courses and provides certificates after completing them. They're good not only for learning new things, but also revising the material that has been ...
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How important are higher degrees in a tech industry? [closed]
How important are higher degrees in a tech industry? Asides the obvious cases of very specialised companies that perform their own high tech research, does having different levels of higher education ...
