NPCER: can you review my resume?

[Melissa W.]

It shows up for me. I've never done my resume from a skill set standpoint.

DH is coming off of nights so he isn't awake yet. Do you want me to ask him to look at it later today??

Off topic but we are still waiting for the final outcome on license school. He has been selected to go for upgrade to be a unit supervisor but we haven't gotten the final details (contract/money timing

[pamela]

Aug 6, 2012 9:45:45 GMT -5 Melissa W. said:

It shows up for me. I've never done my resume from a skill set standpoint.

DH is coming off of nights so he isn't awake yet. Do you want me to ask him to look at it later today??

Off topic but we are still waiting for the final outcome on license school. He has been selected to go for upgrade to be a unit supervisor but we haven't gotten the final details (contract/money timing

Sure!

And congrats to him on finishing license class. DId he already take the NRC exam or is that coming up? From this point, the worse part about upgrade for most candidates is just mastering the command and control part of simulator time. And learning to interpret the e-plan procedues/flowcharts. Everything else will be things he already learned in class, but he just wasn't tested on. And license bonuses are awesome. DH just started getting his for his certification (they didn't put him up for a full license since he's just an instructor so he only gets part of the bonus).

[Melissa W.]

He is a reactor operator now but is going to school after the fall outage. In the past, they have done the contracts prior to going.

The bonuses are great! His company is overall a pretty great company.

[Michelle]

My initial thoughts:

• This doesn’t read like a trainer’s resume. It reads like an engineer’s resume. Effective training is focused on experience and measurable outcomes and the way it reads doesn't communicate to me that you have made the leap from being an engineer to having a training mindset. I see that you have participated in activities that relate to training and help position you toward being a trainer, but the value you added by being part of those activities or the outcomes achieved does not come through. For example, you have on there, “Assisted community college and university in designing degree and certificate programs to meet INPO ACAD requirements, including developing ongoing oversight to maintain program standards.” When did this happen? When did it go into effect? How many students have enrolled in the program? How many completed the program? If it was long enough ago can you measure any positive results that came from the individuals’ having gone through the course? Is there any significance to the type of students that have enrolled in the program that would be of particular interest to your company? Now, I wouldn’t ramble on in detail for every item posted but if you can modify your resume to hit on attractive points that answer some of these questions, that would be an improvement.
• Your resume also reads like an engineer’s resume because it is very static. You need to reshape the whole thing to use action language. Instead of “Experience with development of training to fit a variety of adult learning styles” I would write, “Developed training materials to fit X,Y, and Z adult learning styles achieving ABC outcome(s).”
• Crucial conversations - did you take the course or did you get certified as a crucial conversations trainer? The first is good, but the second is outstanding and should be clarified if that is the case. Same with all the other courses listed.

[secretlyevil]

Overall, I like it. I think it's laid out well and easy to read. However since I edit for a living, I have to point out a few things:

Summary:
First line in summary, eight should be spelled out.

There are four spaces between your period after operations and demonstrated.

Skills

Systematic Approach to Training through Initial Accreditation doesn't need to be capitalized.

Job/Task Analysis doesn't need to be capitalized.

What does ACAD stand for? I'm sure it's a common acronym in your industry/company, however, it's best to stay away from acronyms or at least spell it out and then put the acronym in parenthesis behind it.

Are you referring to Deltek Vision or is VISION another acronym? If it's Deltek Vision, that is how I would refer to it.

Suggest rewording this bullet as I am not sure what you are referring to here.
Are you a qualified instructor for a course? If advance boiling, etc. is the name of the course, instructor shouldn't be capitalized.

Again no need to capitalize Matter Expert Instructor for Engineering

Spell out INPO ACAD

New Fuel Receipt - is this a program? I would clarify.

Spell out PWR and BWR.

Spell out 1MW TRIGA.

Lowercase reactor operator


I think you were pretty thorough under your training skills, for obvious reasons but I think you might need to beef up your other skills a little more. Is there anyway to quantify your experience? Especially under project management, any outstanding reviews or comments?

That's my two cents. HTH.

[pamela]

Thanks for the specific input. I'm going to try to tweak it with that.

ETA: and Random Capitalization of words is an Industry Standard almost as much as rampant acronyms

[Michelle]

Pamela, random capitalization may be an industry standard for engineering, but again - start thinking like a trainer if that is what you want to be hired for, and that means only capitalizing proper nouns. ACAD didn't bother me as much as the passive voice in your resume because I'm assuming you want to continue to do training in the engineering industry where autocad is elementary vocabulary. If you wanted to get out of engineering I'd spell it out as recommended by PP.

But what do I know? Off to screen resumes for 2 VP positions, our in-house legal counsel opening and our Sr. Organizational Development consultant position...

[pamela]

Aug 6, 2012 13:15:15 GMT -5 Michelle said:

Pamela, random capitalization may be an industry standard for engineering, but again - start thinking like a trainer if that is what you want to be hired for, and that means only capitalizing proper nouns. ACAD didn't bother me as much as the passive voice in your resume because I'm assuming you want to continue to do training in the engineering industry where autocad is elementary vocabulary. If you wanted to get out of engineering I'd spell it out as recommended by PP.

But what do I know? Off to screen resumes for 2 VP positions, our in-house legal counsel opening and our Sr. Organizational Development consultant position...

I was joking about the random capitalization being ok. I try to cut it out whenever I notice it. I am taking your advice.

One exception is ACAD stands for "Academy Document" which is a type of documents issued by one our industry groups. It's one of those things that if I were to write it out, people actually wouldn't recognize it for what it is. The other ones I'll change. I'd change that one if I was writing the resume for someone outside the nuclear industry.

[secretlyevil]

Aug 6, 2012 11:37:46 GMT -5 pamela said:

Thanks for the specific input. I'm going to try to tweak it with that.

ETA: and Random Capitalization of words is an Industry Standard almost as much as rampant acronyms

Yes, I work in the engineering industry (Marketing) and I am breaking my people of this habit. Just because others do it, doesn't mean its correct.

ETA: academy document (ACAD)