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Accomplishments of late:
* Edited resume. Starting point was terrible (that's not just my lack of self-esteem speaking, that was the assessment of the Office of Career Services person (although she put it more tactfully than that.)) Improved it from "terrible" to "good".
* Met with the OCS lady to get the resume proofread and critiqued. She had a couple minor suggestions but basically her assessment was it's ready to go.
* This morning: figured out how to upload resume to LinkedIn
* Wrote and sent a cover letter!!!
Not that I expect anything to come of the cover letter I sent. Everyone says to go all PI-mode sleuthing about the company until you figure out the name of the hiring manager, and address the letter by name, and I failed at that. The job has been posted for two months, so they are being picky, I guess. They ask for a BS or MS in computer science, which I don't have. I consider my experience equivalent, but, no, it's not the academic certification. I made a big thing of my master's in Biology, but they don't ask for that. For a bioinformatics position, my Python experience might be a bit thin.
But, I have to get into the habit of doing this-- getting over my feelings of inadequacy, not cowering with timidity, and sending these out.
* Edited resume. Starting point was terrible (that's not just my lack of self-esteem speaking, that was the assessment of the Office of Career Services person (although she put it more tactfully than that.)) Improved it from "terrible" to "good".
* Met with the OCS lady to get the resume proofread and critiqued. She had a couple minor suggestions but basically her assessment was it's ready to go.
* This morning: figured out how to upload resume to LinkedIn
* Wrote and sent a cover letter!!!
Not that I expect anything to come of the cover letter I sent. Everyone says to go all PI-mode sleuthing about the company until you figure out the name of the hiring manager, and address the letter by name, and I failed at that. The job has been posted for two months, so they are being picky, I guess. They ask for a BS or MS in computer science, which I don't have. I consider my experience equivalent, but, no, it's not the academic certification. I made a big thing of my master's in Biology, but they don't ask for that. For a bioinformatics position, my Python experience might be a bit thin.
But, I have to get into the habit of doing this-- getting over my feelings of inadequacy, not cowering with timidity, and sending these out.
