I am ashamed and concerned that DXC has such a poor industry reputation. As a former HPE employee; should I just list HPE and explain how CSC and HPE merged to create DXC? What have you done and what success have you had in getting recruiters contact you?
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Considering HP-E had a worse reputation than DXC has managed to accrue so far. I would not be concerned. Not to mention other employers are more interested in your day to day stuff than macroscopic goings on at a company.
why wouldnt you put them on ? not your fault there c-ap! I was always honest when I left a few years ago vie forced redundancy and told all 4 places I had an interview that I was made redundant in restructure of company. Did me no harm offered all 4 jobs!
I did not mention DXC on my resume - not because of others, but for me DXC was not a company I would ever choose to work for! I was sold to them - like many of us, had no choice, ... but as soon as I transferred - I knew I could not support this company with all it's low moral/ no values and certainly no vision. Happy to be out, and the bad impression of DXC, for all what they did to their employees- will stick on them forever.
I wouldn't worry, few have ever heard of DXC. I come across DXC on several client assignments and whilst they (DXC) often struggle to deliver on time, the clients appear quite tolerant of them because they don't have the manpower to do it themselves and often they find the people on the ground to be excellent - its just the DXC management they don't like :-) I just keep quiet and don't let on I used to work for them, as it would make it look like I had an axe to grind and probably jeopardize my independence. :-)
Just list DXC as a separate company - it will also give the ambiguous notion that you moved on. Don't waste valuable space in discussing mergers. Who cares? You are not telling lies by stating DXC on your listing and if a company or recruiter is THAT interested they will ask you.
You are writing your own sales brochure to sell YOURSELF (you, the product) not the company you worked for. Use the space to sell yourself - your skills, your achievements and make sure they are sought after skills. Don't just list responsibilities, everyone who starts a CV after not bothering for many years will just list 'What I did when I worked there' type stuff, which is so, so boring to read.
Much better to think of 2 or 3 key achievements / successes and write those with some quantifiable SMART measures like 'increased sales by 10%', 'helped to streamline processes which saved annual costs of xxx', 'help to improve cust satisfaction'. Well, you know the rest.
Getting recruiters to contact you shouldn't be difficult. In fact, on linked-in it can get a bit annoying, as many recruiters (the lazy ones) just put out blanket 'personalised' emails if you have just 3 of the 10 skills they are seeking, especially in low employment regions where if they throw enough mud, something will stick, right? Often its just a case of changing the wording of one skill into its more popular buzzword. Its a big-data game you are playing trying to beat the search engine
Try to search for others who already have the job you are interested in or is the boss of the person who has the job you are interested in and see how they word their skills, you can often get good ideas for your own wording. Businesses have their own linked-in page and you can register interest on up-coming jobs.
I wouldn't bother with online jobsites, they are heavily over-subscribed and its like a feeding time in a pirahna pool where they all go after every job advertised and poor employers can recieve 2000 applicants in one day of which only 10 or 20 will have what they are looking for.
On the CV, don't use all the cliche stuff either about reliable, honest, dedicated, loves a challenge or whose weakness is that they strive for too much perfection . yuch! Recruiters have seen it all before. All they want to know is you have the right SKILLS and a track record of acheivement (and you can make an achievement anything you like as long as it benefited the firm or your team or department in some way) and that you have a good work ethic and are not going to bail on the new company after 3 months because you didn't like working there. So it is in their (financial) interest that they find you the right job.
I wish you luck.
Left DXC in April 2018 after 18 years with Compaq/HP/HPE/DXC.
I was just honest on my CV/resume and had no problem finding another role.
Good luck.