CSC322.01 2016F, Class 05: Resume Reviews
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_Overview_

* Preliminaries.
    * Admin.
    * Upcoming Work.
    * Extra Credit.
    * Questions.
* Strengths quest.
* Quick team-building exercise.
* More extensive resume reviews.

Preliminaries
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### Admin

* We are looking at resumes today because (a) there's a professional
  development part of CSC 322; (b) I think it helps in team building;
  (c) We'll have someone here on Thursday talking about tech 
  resumes, so developing questions would be good; and (d) Janet put
  it in the class structure.

### Homework (for Wednesday)

* Find, download, and try to get working the current version of your
  project.
* Do Rails for Zombies, available at <http://railsforzombies.org/>.

### Good Things to Do

* CS Table Tuesday: Passwords and more.
* Convo, September 8 (Thursday, 11:00 a.m., JRC 101): Roberto
  Gonzales on "From Undocumented to DACAmented: Understanding Legal Status 
  in a New Policy Context".  
    * Get a free copy of his book _Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming 
      of Age in America_ by visiting Macy 203 during regular office times.
* CS Extras Thursday: PM on PL.
* AppDev Thursday

### Questions

Strengths quest
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* Positives
    * Under the premise that this is correct, some of the teams feel
      very imbalanced.
* Negatives
    * Felt like a rushed experience, and then you get pegged into
      certain categories.  Felt strange.  (Goal is to be rushed, to
      see what seems more 'natural' to you.)  (Unless your natural
      approach is analysis.)
    * Frustrating that there were often "both" and "neither".
    * Circular logic.
* Questions
    * Are all computer scientists strategic thinkers?

Quick team-building exercise
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Read your colleagues' resumes.  Assume you did not know them.  What do
the resumes tell you about the people you will be working with?  

GAM

* Irresponsible.  Strategic.
* Pretty.  Well qualified.  Well rounded.
* Diverse experience, including tutoring.  Doesn't know how to use
  technology.
* Web and development experience.  Takes the time to format resume
  well.  Seems to have a direction he wants to go.  Resume coheres.

Board Bank

* Experience is primarily from classes.  Worked as mentor.  Probably
  someone who will help others.
* Broad experience in many fields.  Knows about lots of things.  Likely
  to bring creative ideas.
* Real-world experience.  Experience in bioinformatics and econ.
  Experience using SCRUM, so will help us do agile.
* Research and mentoring.  Knowledgable.
* Data visualization and visual art - can make UI better.

Resource Portal

* Internship experience and concerts chair.  Leadership potential.
* Strong technical skills through great internship experience.  Can
  explain things well.  (Although that elicited laughter.)
* Experience creating Web apps and working on different platforms.
  Likely to pick up the technology well.  Can help us structure the
  app.  Can help us deal with a big project.
* Lot of startup and government experience.  Can bring in real development
  techniques.  Knows what a good team should be, and will help us become
  that team.
* Lots of experience teaching people; will help us learn things that we
  don't know.  Probably thinks well about organizing and providing information.

Head Start

* Public speaking and communication skills.  Will help us market it.
* From local community.  Knows schools etc.  Can help contextualize
  and work with partners.
* Working in groups, as assistant and as a manager.  Can work well
  with others.
* Two summers at IBM, working on SMS-based apps.  Will know a lot about
  the technologies we'll be using.  Passionate.  Interesting technical
  skills.
* Baseball captain - leadership skills.  Tutor, so great at helping
  others.

How do the skills you identified in your group cohere?

What role(s) do you expect that each member of the group will play?

* Manager - keeping people on task, making sure that everyone contributes
  and that everyone's voice is heard, etc.
* Coordinator - interface with clients and alumni mentors.
* Communicator - responsible for presentations.
* UX.
* Front-end developer.
* Back-end developer.
* Testing.
* SysAdmin.  (Installs, etc.).
* ...

More extensive resume reviews
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Questions for JDC'81

* What do you think about the two-column resumes that Sam finds hideous?
* How should one describe different levels of mastery of programming languages?
* GPA?