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A Guide to Technical Resumes A Guide to Technical Resumes Jack G. Ganssle jack@ The Ganssle Group PO Box 38346 Baltimore, MD 21231 © 2004 The Ganssle Group. This work may be used by individuals and companies, but all publication rights reserved. A Guide to Technical Resumes How fast things change! Not long ago I got a dozen or more emails a day from companies and recruiters looking for developers. Some were so desperate for people they were willing to pay extraordinary salaries and bonuses. Wags were pronouncing massive shortages of engineers over the coming decade. Now I’m flooded with mail from developers who have lost their jobs or feel their company is in danger of failure. Rare indeed is the message from a company trying to hire. Macroeconomics mostly baffles me, but it does seem there’s a pattern to our industry’s boom and bust cycle. The early 70s, 80s, 90s and now 00s all saw recessions o f greater or less magnitude. For some reason the start of a new decade brings a slowdown. Those of the 80s and 90s even changed the political climate as incumbent presidents lost their reelection bids. Electronics always gets hit hard in these recessions. No surprise there; there’s little special about our business and so it’s natural it too should decline in sync with the rest of the economy. The 90s subordinated common sense to a fury of stock market irrationalities. Many analysts sagely pronounced high-tech as being recession-proof. Too many folks believed them and spent as fast or faster than they earned. Lifetime employment, once a staple of