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Resumé Details: Hire Rich Tatum!

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I am available for short-term contract work, freelance, writing, editing, content management and more. I’m also currently available for full-time employment. Please check out my resumé and anything else here that grabs your attention. (The first thing every job hunter learns is to drop all pretenses of false-humility and describe accomplishments and work success with frankness and honesty. On the other hand, I really wouldn’t have prepared this page if it weren’t for my current employment status!)

If you would like to get in touch with me, feel free to drop me a line from my contact page.

Prepared Materials

• Brief one-page resumé
• Old-school long-form resumé with all the toppings
• My work story and accomplishments
• Media work (including sample videos I produced or edited)
• Writing samples and weblog
• See what I was working on at Christianity Today International: browse the CTCourses Interface Demo
• Documenting my Work:
  • Typical research summary prepared for new product launch
  • Typical project update report, demonstrating the kinds of projects I managed at Christianity Today International
  • Typical weekly tasks list ( this one, too)

Recommendations and Endorsements

• Recommendations and Endorsements (compiled from LinkedIN and ChristianJobs)
• Recognition for project completion by Vicki Howard, CTI Vice President of Resources (previous manager), presented at a dinner celebrating the launch of CTLibrary.com.
• Letters of Recommendation (ministry focus) [PDF]
  • Rev. Kevin Miller, Vice President of Resources, Christianity Today International
  • Rev. Brian Larson, Lakeshore A/G, Chicago Illinois, editor of PreachingToday.com
  • Rev. Steve Badger, PhD., Evangel University, Springfield, MO
  • Rev. Barry Sink, Calvary Church, Naperville, IL
  • Rev. Gordon Aikin, PhD., Central A/G, Muskegon, MI
  • Rev. Scott Osenbaugh, Evergreen A/G, Grangeville, ID

Official Job Descriptions

• 2004: Online Media Managing Editor
• 2001: Web Site Manager / Internet Operations Manager
• 1999: Special Projects Manager / Webmaster

Testing and Strengths

• DiSC Classic 2.0 profile, prepared by Resources Unlimited. I tested out with a high value for “C” (Conscientiousness), which winds up pegging me as a “Perfectionist.” This is largely accurate, though some details are off, notably it’s analysis regarding flexibility. I find myself to be far more flexible than the profile indicates. But, as with everything else, it’s just another analysis tool based on aggregate data. No profile fits perfectly. (09/27/2007)
• Personality100 Complete Personality Profile. (09/01/2007)
• Gallup Organization’s Strengths Finder. My top five strengths are: Input, Learner, Achiever, Intellection, and Strategic. See my certificate, or read the analysis of what the strengths mean. (01/06/2005)
• The Achiever (a corporate strengths assessment, taken prior to assuming role as online media manager at CTI)
• My PersonalDNA profile: Advocating Leader
  

  

• MyPersonality profile:
  
• IQ Test (I hesitate to include this because I don’t put much stock in this, and neither should anybody else but it at least demonstrates the relative strengths of how my mind works.)

Profiles and Social Networking Sites

• LinkedIN Professional Profile (includes several recommendations and a full work history)
• Jobster Profile
• Christianity Today’s Employment Wanted Ad
• Others:
  Facebook,
  Spoke,
  ZoomInfo,
  Hi5,
  Twitter feed

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Fresh BlogRodent Musings Here!

As mentioned before, this blog is not my primary home on the web. You can learn more about me here. But, in short, I am a Pentecostal/charismatic blogger from the Assemblies of God faith tradition. I follow what’s happening in the Pentecostal/charismatic blogosphere, and you can too, thanks to my list of active, thoughtful PneumaBloggers, their latest posts via PneumaSphere, and you can search their websites via PneumaSearch.

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The A/G: Desperately Seeking Disciplers

Back at the first of the year, on January 3, I wrote a post wherein I teased out some trends from the most recent official A/G statistical report published in 2004. I concluded that:

Not only are the new believers outstripping the net change in adherents, they seem to have no impact on the growth trend at all. If the data are accurate, we may be bringing folks to Christ in the A/G, but we’re not keeping them.

–”Examining Assemblies of God statistics on growth“

And I illustrated my conclusion with data, specifically, with this chart:

Note the numbers:

472,704: Conversions
49,533: Net Change in Adherents
10.5%: Percentage of Net Change in Adherents

BlogRodent turns one: top 10 posts, plus top ten lessons.

If you’re just interested in the top ten lessons, skip ahead.

This is a repost from my home-blog at BlogRodent: Pentecostal Rumination & Review, at tatumweb.com.

Yowie, it’s been a busy couple of months. Since I went on vacation in early June my life has been very full. I’ve had a lot of video editing to do, and I’ve been taking work home to do it on my laptop—since it seems so hard to get anything accomplished at the office. (Is it ironic when your boss agrees that the worst place to do work is at the office?)

Meanwhile, I’ve been wringing my hands over my blog. I’ve been too … absorbed in everything else to dredge up the energy to post anything substantive, but over the past couple weeks I’ve made sure to moderate the comments and track the stats. So, BlogRodent hasn’t really fallen off my radar. It’s just that I’ve fallen off the face of the earth. In fact, I’m waiting for video to finish rendering right now … so with a few minutes on my hands, I thought I’d post a retrospective.

I think milestones are important. I’d been waiting for the one-year anniversary of BlogRodent so I could celebrate it with an anniversary post. Naturally, because I am time-insensitive—my employers would say I’m time-comatose—so June 20 passed without a mention. What happened on this blog on that day one year ago? My first “Hello World” post, nervously titled, “This is easy,” and a throw-away mention of the Adult CE class I was teaching at the time, “Do Heaven and Hell exist?” Frankly, there’s nothing to recommend either post for your reading pleasure. But lot has happened since then and I hope I’ve made some improvement.

Let’s talk about what’s been good, bad, and what I’ve learned as a newbie Pentecostal blogger.

This blog is not my home…

I blog at the real BlogRodent hole in the web at tatumweb.com/blog/. Come by and visit, and take a look at the PneumaBlogs page and my aggregation of all things Pentecostal and Charismatic.

Regards,

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