Salvador said: "If you include all kinds of experiences in your resume, even those short-term jobs or jobs that have nothing to do with your current job search goals, these will become red flags for employers. They will think that you are a person who comes and goes in a hurry and is used to job hopping, or that you are not the person they are looking for at all, and your resume will be filtered out. "
El Salvador also suggests that you might as well re-examine your resume with the following three suggestions to see what changes need to be made.
1. Delete short-term jobs. For those who have worked for less than one year, especially those jobs that are not directly related to the current job search goals, please delete them from your resume.
"For example, from 2000 to 2002, you worked in a company; In another unit in 2002; From 2003 to 2009, the third job. If you took that short-term job in 2002, your resume won't seem to be interrupted. Because resumes usually only show the year, not the month, "El Salvador said.
However, for job seekers whose internship period is less than one year and the goal is entry-level positions, the above rules can be ignored when writing resumes.
2. Emphasize relevant skills and responsibilities. El Salvador pointed out that in order to avoid losing time on resumes, people often list jobs that have nothing to do with job hunting goals. If you are worried that the inconsistency of working hours will make the employer suspicious, it is better to find the connection between the seemingly unrelated positions in the past and the positions you want now, so as to turn disadvantages into advantages.
"No matter what job you were doing in that position at that time, can you relate your job responsibilities at that time, or some skills you learned, to your current job search goal?" She asked. "Even if only a small part of your previous job is related to your current job goal, you can still list that job and only describe the relevant part."
At first glance, most "part-time breadwinners" often seem to have nothing to do with the position you are applying for, but if you dig deep, you are likely to find gold.
Let's suppose, for example, that you used to be a manager, and after being laid off by the company, you worked as a waiter in a restaurant to make a living. Through this kind of work experience, you may learn a lot about how to provide efficient customer service and dispute resolution skills. These two skills are indispensable for any manager.
Don't go too far in your resume. Maybe you mentioned too many jobs in your resume, because you listed all the jobs you did 30 years ago. Don't write your resume like this.
El Salvador pointed out: "If your work experience in the past 65,438+00 years proves that you are qualified for the position you are seeking now, there is no need to go back."
So, what should I do if my most relevant work experience happened 10 years ago?
El Salvador said that if necessary, it can be traced back to 15 years ago, but that is the limit. In the eyes of a 35-year-old recruitment manager, anything that happened when he/she was a high school student is not much different from that in the Stone Age. So, you must be careful not to make people think that your technology is out of date.
El Salvador suggested: "If you want to look younger, you might as well go back a few years when writing your resume.
Similarly, for whatever reason, if job seekers want to appear as mature and experienced as possible, they might as well describe their work before 15 in their resumes.
In either case, El Salvador said, "Once you get an interview, you can make a big fuss about your qualifications, integrate into the culture of the other company and sell yourself well." Good luck!