▲ 1 r/Resume

[14YoE, Independent Technical Consultant, Corporate Technical Consultant, (Remote) US]

I have made countless edits to my resume and am still circling back to the structure itself.

For the last 14 years I have operated my own independent IT consultancy, but growth has completely stagnated, so I am looking for a corporate role, but hopefully one that fits my experience because I still love this work, but it is time for the next stage. My history is very varied and my business had two distinct sides: individual contracted projects and ongoing retainer contracts and I'm trying to show it all.

At any time I would manage the ongoing IT needs for a group of clients, each would have an agreed upon hours a month, rates if they went over, guaranteed response time etc. Then I would do large scale projects one at a time that were usually 3 months - 2 years.

The kind large projects I would do were fairly varied - handled the digital presence for a healthcare startup during their acquisition, large cloud platorm builds, CRM integration, sayment solutions, etc. I am a good coder but have undergraduate degrees in Business Management and Information Systems, which have helped me over the years with process analysis and system design, etc. when taking on new clients.

The ongoing IT was fairly vanilla, where I could keep things running, advise on new implentations, fix issues, etc.

How should I structure my resume? Right now I have work section that has 8 or so bullets going over to ongoing work and then 5-7 specific clients for large scale builds that goes over specifics. It feels impossible to get 14 pages of variation expressed succicntly on one page, I feel most hiring manager are just chucking it right in the trash, any tips are appreciated.

I'm not trying to limit myself to that one role in my search by any means, just trying to find the right role to grow into.

Right now I have a section for "Select Case Studies" and show the years involved, the size and industry of the company then three bullets: the impact/goal of the project, the technical output, the business responsibilities. I have 6/7 total, including a current project.

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u/Key2todoor2 — 3 days ago

[14YoE, Independent Technical Consultant, Corporate Technical Consultant, (Remote) US]

I have made countless edits to my resume and am still circling back to the structure itself.

For the last 14 years I have operated my own independent IT consultancy, but growth has completely stagnated, so I am looking for a corporate role, but hopefully one that fits my experience because I still love this work, but it is time for the next stage. My history is very varied and my business had two distinct sides: individual contracted projects and ongoing retainer contracts and I'm trying to show it all.

At any time I would manage the ongoing IT needs for a group of clients, each would have an agreed upon hours a month, rates if they went over, guaranteed response time etc. Then I would do large scale projects one at a time that were usually 3 months - 2 years.

The kind large projects I would do were fairly varied - handled the digital presence for a healthcare startup during their acquisition, large cloud platorm builds, CRM integration, sayment solutions, etc. I am a good coder but have undergraduate degrees in Business Management and Information Systems, which have helped me over the years with process analysis and system design, etc. when taking on new clients.

The ongoing IT was fairly vanilla, where I could keep things running, advise on new implentations, fix issues, etc.

How should I structure my resume? Right now I have work section that has 8 or so bullets going over to ongoing work and then 5-7 specific clients for large scale builds that goes over specifics. It feels impossible to get 14 pages of variation expressed succicntly on one page, I feel most hiring manager are just chucking it right in the trash, any tips are appreciated.

I'm not trying to limit myself to that one role in my search by any means, just trying to find the right role to grow into.

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u/Key2todoor2 — 4 days ago

I haven't been down (now up) in 5 years, what are the must-go-to restaurants?

Like the title says I'll be there in a couple weeks and want to make sure I don't miss anything. What are your absolute favorites? My place is in Barnegat Light and our old favorites are Kubel's, Harvey Cedars Shellfish Co., and Wally's (glad to see they bounced back quickly after that fire).

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u/Key2todoor2 — 6 days ago

Trying to go from freelance consulting to... anything, am I hireable or delusional?

I've only ever been self-employed for 14 years as a business consultant, software developer, and some platform work. My income over that time came either from having 5-10 clients at a time who kept me on monthly retainers. Plus single solution development projects, some over a year. Over the last 5 years things have gone from growing to shrinking and it is time to pull the trigger on getting full-time employment somewher else.

Over the last 5 months I've gotten nowhere. Roles I've looked at are:

  • IT analyst
  • Systems analyst
  • Implementation specialist
  • Technical Product Analyst
  • Project Manager

etc., you get the idea.

I thought my resume was solid talking about maintaining decade long relationships and working on some complex projects for companies in the $50M/YR revenue range, and often working with development agencies when they would get stuck. I seem to have been wrong.

Looking for any feedback on steps I can take to find work, what I may be doing wrong, how much of a step backwards I should expect, or stories from others who have made this kind of transition. Thanks in advance.

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u/Key2todoor2 — 6 days ago

Trying to go from freelance consulting to... anything.

I've only ever been self-employed for 14 years as a business consultant, software developer, and some platform work. My income over that time came either from having 5-10 clients at a time who kept me on monthly retainers. Plus single solution development projects, some over a year. Over the last 5 years things have gone from growing to shrinking and it is time to pull the trigger on getting full-time employment somewher else.

Over the last 5 months I've gotten nowhere. Roles I've looked at are:

  • IT analyst
  • Systems analyst
  • Implementation specialist
  • Technical Product Analyst
  • Project Manager

etc., you get the idea.

I thought my resume was solid talking about maintaining decade long relationships and working on some complex projects for companies in the $50M/YR revenue range, and often working with development agencies when they would get stuck. I seem to have been wrong.

Looking for any feedback on steps I can take to find work, what I may be doing wrong, how much of a step backwards I should expect, or stories from others who have made this kind of transition. Thanks in advance.

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u/Key2todoor2 — 6 days ago
▲ 21 r/horror

Not a traditional Horror, but a specific kind of unsettling for me - Time Trap (2017)

I love horror, but I am always on the lookout for things that don't involve any gore, and it is more cerebral or conceptual - it is a nice change of pace. Enter Time Trap, a $1M film with a unique concept that I would say did a good job of executing the central idea with what they had to work with.

"Deep in the unknown, where time stands still, the only way to survive is to escape to the future."

I feel like they did a lot with a specific and a pure concept here and what it could mean. As I watch I panic a little thinking what it would be like to go through that mentally.

>!The concept is that the fountain of youth is deep within this cave, but it has protective barriers. As you cross each barrier, time slows significantly, seconds become years and then deeper that multiplies. You see the characters go through this realization that everyone they have ever known is long dead, there is no life to go back to, and every second they think about it does nothing to fix the problem - all their ropes have broken by the passage of time, they're trapped. It is a very specfic kind of anxiety. I know this isn't "horror" in many of the traditional ways, but if one of the underlying characteristics is it being unsettling, this type of movie does it for me. !<

Thoughts on unsettling anxiety horror? Any other movies come to mind like this?

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u/Key2todoor2 — 7 days ago