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I understand that you can put down UNIX as one of your skills acquired section, but can you put down LINUX as one?
I, for one, want to see some indication that a prospective employee has some ability to think independently, to lead, and in general, make it worthwhile to have that person as an employee. Keywords don't do that, at least not in my field.
Keywords are secondary once the resume gets past the filters.
mr_coffee said:I agree D H,
This is usually shown in person, not something you can show on your resume unless you have job experience in the field prior to the internship/co-op.
Keywords and a high GPA in my opinion is what gets you the initial interview, from there you have to impress them in person. If you can't get passed the filters, then you can never show them your other qualities.
It does help to have some sort of experience, for example, what impressed my employer was the fact I led a team of student programmers to develop a piece of software to help out an animal shelter to keep track of their animals when I was in high school. It doesn't sound that impressive but...
This showed leadership, creative thinking, programming skills, and showing I could go from initial concept of an idea and follow it through the software cycle to the end product.
If you haven't been involved in any out side of school programming projects, do something on your own. ( I'm assuming your a Comp Sci major)
l46kok,
If you don't think you could show them if asked in an interview then don't put it on your resume.
NOTE:
I'm getting rehired at IBM next summer and I was amazed at what my manager told me.
I did 1 small project in PHP, I used z/OS operating system a few times, and he told me to put it down as a skill on my resume.
So I used it very little, and yet he made me put it on my resume, his logic is the following:
If given a project in PHP I could easily look up what I didn't know and do the project even though I'm not a pro in the z/OS environment or PHP. This is true, but its also true with any language, you can easily pick it up in a day or 2 and start coding away.
So his idea of skills on a resume aren't what mine are. I wouldn't feel comfortable putting a skill on a resume unless I'm quite knowledgeable about it.
But he told me the more keywords the better.
He also told the other 3 co-ops to do the same, the one kid never even used z/OS and yet he told him to put it on for now, and make sure he gets experience in it before he leaves IBM. :P
mr_coffee said:yes.
The more the better.
My resume has: Unix, Linux, AIX, z/OS, Windows
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Notice I put AIX, even though AIX is just a flavor of UNIX that IBM made. I could generalize and just put UNIX but it doesn't look as good.
mr_coffee said:if you can navigate through Linux in command line, install/configure the OS if needed, install programs, etc, that should be enough. You should also know how the file system is structured, what key directories store what, etc if asked in an interview.
Note: being able to use ubuntu distro wouldn't be what I call knowing Linux :P I think that distro is easier to configure than windows.
They arn't asking you to re-write the kernel or anything.
Shell scripting is also a plus but if you do know how to write say, bash scripts, that should be listed as a separate skill as well.
Basically if you are as comfortable with Linux as you are with windows you should put it as a skill.
Depending on what company you are trying to get into, they probably have a lot of their analysis software on Linux/Unix, I know a lot of the Comp Eng tools I used when I created test benches for the Processor I made it was all in Unix or Linux.
The main difference between Unix and Linux is that Unix is a proprietary operating system developed by AT&T Bell Labs in the 1970s, while Linux is an open-source operating system based on Unix that was created in the 1990s by Linus Torvalds. This means that Unix is owned and controlled by a single company, while Linux is freely available for anyone to use and modify.
Yes, Unix and Linux are compatible with each other to some extent. Linux was developed to be compatible with Unix, and many Unix-based programs can run on Linux without any modifications. However, there are some differences in the way these two operating systems handle certain tasks, so not all Unix programs will work on Linux and vice versa.
Linux is more widely used than Unix. This is primarily because Linux is free and open-source, making it accessible to a wider range of users and organizations. Additionally, many companies and individuals have contributed to the development of Linux, resulting in a large and diverse community of users and supporters.
Yes, it is possible to run both Unix and Linux on the same computer. However, this would require setting up a virtual machine or using a dual-boot system, as these two operating systems cannot be installed and run simultaneously on the same machine.
Both Unix and Linux are commonly used for scientific computing and have many similar features and capabilities. However, Linux is generally preferred for scientific computing due to its open-source nature, which allows for greater customization and access to a wide range of tools and libraries for scientific research and data analysis.