LOL! Thanks, Joe =) The resume is always the hardest part for me so I'm trying to get it squared away so I can focus on finding my next great job. I've always got derby practice for stress relief! - FFing Enigma

"Major: Psychology | Minor: Violence Studies" = scary. Soft Skills is a totally new term to me. - Toby Graham

How many pages? Looks like it's just one. - Shevonne

When I was in college I had plans to go into criminal psychology, Toby. Even looked at joint programs for a law degree and doctorate in psychology for a while... I'm trying to remember where I picked up the term "soft skills"; I think it may have been at MCI. Basically, those are the skills that aren't exactly quantifiable by certifications, testing, etc. And Shevonne, right now it's cruising at almost pages once it's formatted up and in a readable font size. EDIT: that should read 2 pages. Good thing I poured up more coffee. - FFing Enigma

I studied a bit of criminal psych and forensic stuff while in school, too. Wanted material for writing, made it clear to the prof. what I was there for, and he was very cool with it, gave me all sorts of extra stuff on psychopathology, serial killers, stuff like that, just made me promise to portray cops realistically. I had to tell him that unfortunately, most cops are good cops and good cops make bad fiction (he laughed). He was the CSI guy in Santa Cruz County during the 70s-80s, so he was the guy who worked all those serial killer cases; was incredibly cool and knew everything. - Neal "thePuck" Jansons

Yeah, my bookshelves are still sporting some books that would make other people cringe on serial killers etc. I did some research with the graduate department on adult abnormal psychology which was interesting, but made it pretty clear to me that I wasn't cut out for a research path. - FFing Enigma

Yeah, people are weird about that stuff. I have gotten weird reactions from some people, though; even professionals, cops and CSI people, ask "why do you want to write about stuff like that?" and I just don't know how to answer. I just usually say something like, "Not a horror fan, huh?" and make it into a joke (mostly because I don't really know "why" I want to write anything, I just do). My wife is working on her Psy.D. right now (in fact, literally right now, she's in class) and she brings me all sorts of neat tidbits, too. - Neal "thePuck" Jansons

Thanks, Nation. I'm getting ready to put it up on sites now and I'm bad about second guessing myself (and third, and fourth...). - FFing Enigma

1 page - check, Accomplishments - check, Leads a reviewer to ask questions - check. Looks good! - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

I think it's great. You have a lot of experience, so if it went to two, then it would be fine. The only recommendation I have is that instead of using "Profile," I would change it to "Summary of Qualifications" - Shevonne

Well, I always try to word the blurb up top so it could be a profile, objective, summary, etc. I don't know about calling it a summary of qualifications though, because it doesn't specifically address my qualifications. Maybe that's just my inner pedant... - FFing Enigma

Good luck. I've been jobless since July 7. Waiting on hearing from 4-5 interviews right now. - Jeff Quinton

Good luck to you too, Jeff. There are actually a couple of trainer positions open locally that I'm hoping will at least land me some interviews. - FFing Enigma

You use "ranging from Fortune 500 to local non-profits" twice...i'd look for a different way to phrase that. Also, "local" doesn't really mean much to me. Does "local" mean "small", "geographically close", etc? I'd leave it out. Question I would ask if I were interviewing you (you may want to speak to this on your resume), "How does your psychology background inform your work as a project manager and trainer?" - Ryan Kaisoglus

Re: 'local', I'm trying to keep the phraseology a bit vague because I'm not sure I want to name clients on the resume (don't know if I can, actually). But fwiw when it comes to clients local means geographically close and may or may not imply small (variety of local clients). I'm rewording the profile though to remove the redundancy. - FFing Enigma

Scott, I appreciate the kudos. My biggest problem is the fact that my job history is pretty varied and I feel I have to struggle to tie everything together for an employer. Hence the difficulty I'm having with the cover letters right now =/ - FFing Enigma

It looks great and personalized - you might want to include durations for these skills and assignments, and what you've learned from them - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Actually, there are dates for the jobs. Is that what you're referencing? - FFing Enigma

hey Tina - this is from a UK perspective so you might want to disregard but here goes: one of the best bits of advice I ever got for my CV is to try to get in there not just a description of duties (have those as well). Under every job title also try to include one of your successes e.g. Secured funding for x project by presenting to x board. seems to work well for me so far... oh - these also act as good reminders of examples for your interview as well - it means that the good examples stick in your head. - Sofia @ SoMaFusion

What I've found in the tech arena is that it's helpful for me to keep a summary table of skills near the top. I have broken down mine before into operating systems, development environments, development methodologies, configuration management, and standards. One could easily add "soft skills" as the top or bottom line. What this does is get my resume through the Recruiter/HR door, where they're just filtering on keywords, and into the hands of someone who has some real and useful knowledge. I can send you an example, if you like. - Ordinarybug Heather

I've done resumes like that in the past as well, Heather,but I'm hoping to not go back into tech this go round. There are a few training positions open in the area right now and I'm applying for them first. So while I have my most recent job listed first I have more detail listed for my training experience (including awards, accomplishments, etc). I expand on these in my cover letter and include some more details (i.e. "Creating SQL query to uncover under-reported sales for international plans in the Inbound Telemarketing segment. Company wide Close Rate Percent to Plan increased 58.32% April over January 2006."). - FFing Enigma

Best wishes and positive new fabulous job energy to you. I quite like soft skills. You don't hear that mentioned much. - Michelle