Resume Acronyms
The following appeared on a resume recently sent to my company…these bullet points contained the worst offenses, although the entire resume was quite a stinker. [Ed: I’m sure he was hired instantaneously.]
* Project: OMCR MIB/UI For CDMA EGP Feature
* Developed OMCR MIB/UI Enhanced Generic Processor feature for CDMA network
* Designed feature to have the capacities of FEP, CDP, OMP, CPP Devices, to improve their logical functions, and to reduce the number of those processors per transcoder Improved other performaces
In my first job out of uiversity, I was handed a one inch thick manual of the “Official Acronyms of the [Organization]. AS I flipped through it in disbelief, I realized that “acronyms”
is in fact an acronym itself:
A – A
C – Couple of
R – Redundant
O – Organizational
N – Names
Y – You
M – Might
S – See