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I have an online resume. I can get you it in several forms.

However, if you are hiring me because of what you see in that piece of paper…

I DON’T WANT TO WORK FOR YOUR COMPANY!

Lisa Haneberg posted a great article on this today.

The problem with me and my resume is that there is no way to capture what I can do or what I know on a piece of paper. I have a non-linear mind and am a technical person with an artistic temperment. I do not fit into your neat little corporate boxes. I am not org-chart friendly.

I flame most recruiters, because they haven’t taken the time to note that (and this is on all of my resumes, no matter where I post them):

1. I am a Canadian living in the US and working on an H1-B
2. I am ONLY entertaining offers from companies on the West Coast

Most recruiters are stupid, at least in my mind. They are desperately clinging to a niche where, like Wile E. Coyote, the ground on which they stand has evaporated.

The great thig is that I know the companies that I want to work for. But I also know that these companies never even look at me because their HR “process” is designed to weed out independent-minded, intelligent, experienced, non-linear thinkers. They want young, fresh mind-slaves.

Am I bitter and angry? Yeah. Why? Because every manager I have had has said the same thing to me, repeatedly: “You are great and your knowledge is astounding, but we don’t know how to use you effectively because you don’t fit into an org-chart box”.

You know what not fitting into an org-chart box has done to me career? Limited my exposure to clients, locked me out of the strategic decision-making process, prevented me from assisting with infrastructure design and assessment, and seen career-advancement promise after promise fall by the wayside.

I am looking for a company who wants me and will let me have business cards with NO TITLE ON THEM.

I am what I know, not what you, the company, tell people I do.

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