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Submit your resume
Hints for job hunters
Contractor info
Resume formatting guide
Submit your resume.
If you are hunting for an IT job, we'd be pleased to receive your resume. Send it to info@flatraterecruitment.com.au
Hints for job hunters.
Here's some quick hints that will help you find a job and help us to better assess your suitability.
- If you are applying for a role as a developer, please DO provide a skills matrix, but please, please DON'T list every technology you've written a line of code in and list yourself as being an expert in everything. There are a small number of people out there who are experts in many things, but not many. It makes more sense to give a clear understanding of where your core strengths lie - that may be five to ten things or it may be two. You lose credibility if you list loads of technologies and claim expert level (or even competent) understanding in them all.
- Organise your resume into a logical structure. It's amazing that people spend years of their lives gaining formal qualifications and then dump them at the bottom of their resume. Examine the short resume formatting guide at the bottom of this page.
- Don't include your referees in your resume. Recruiters instantly add them to their prospects database. If we need to check your referees then we'll ask you for them further into the process.
- Visual presentation should be clean and consistent - use a single font across the document.
- If you are applying for a role that has a strong component of document writing, such as a Business Analyst, then you should consider that your resume will be taken as an example of the quality of documentation that you produce.
- Some say that your resume should be short because recruiters don't have time to read long resumes. Lazy recruiters. If you have put in the effort to do a lot of work in your career, then tell us about it in your resume.
- HTML format resumes (generally) look shoddy and amateurish.
- It makes sense to customise your resume to match the advertised job requirements.
- Does holding a certification (i.e. Sun Certified Java Programmer) help? Yes it does. Certifications give an added level of comfort for employers. For Java, Oracle and Microsoft roles in particular, a certification is pretty much a pre-requisite - everyone has one and if you don't then you are a step behind.
Contractor info.
Flat Rate Recruitment's founder has worked extensively as an IT contractor, which has helped to establish a "contractor friendly" business model. Here's a few things that may be of interest to contractors in particular.
- No secrets - completely open book contracting.
- We have no incentive to push the client rate high and your rate low.
- Our contractor fee is a low Flat Rate on top of your contract rate.
- Our contractor Flat Rate fee is low - you pay for everything else out of your rate (superannuation, PAYG, workcover, insurance).
- If you negotiate a higher contract rate then that's yours of course - our Flat Rate contractor fees don't change.
Resume formatting guide.
Resume formatting guide.
The standard practice at Flat Rate Recruitment is to reformat resumes to allow apples vs apples comparison between candidates. We do not change, edit or delete any of the words of the resume.
Sometimes clients wish to see resumes in original form so we are also happy to send them without reformatting.
This brief reformatting guide specifies the formatting that we do.
- add Flat Rate Recruitment cover page including candidate name & title, plus Flat Rate contact information
- change all text to arial font
- insert referee comments at top of document
- re-order resume sections:
- first: professional overview
- next: formal education
- next: additional education/training/professional development
- next: technical skills summary
- next: work history timeline, company name, title, period, description
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