Timeline for Should I leave two short term jobs off of my resume?
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| Jun 19, 2016 at 18:09 | comment | added | Socrates | @stacey I wrote "WHEN YOU ARE A STUDENT". Read the answer. | |
| Jun 19, 2016 at 17:11 | comment | added | user5621 | This is a bit self contradictory. "Leave stuff off"... next paragraph: "gaps are bad". | |
| Jun 19, 2016 at 14:56 | comment | added | Kilisi | I quite like the bit about having 'relevant' job experience because that is definitely an advantage. But no one expects too much from students, you can't always get a relevant job. I went through uni doing labouring, cleaning and a bunch of stuff, none of which had anything to do with my degree. | |
| Jun 19, 2016 at 14:10 | comment | added | Socrates | @teego1967 I was being tongue-in-cheek, but the principle is valid: don't make a prospective employer guess what you might have been doing in a gap. | |
| Jun 19, 2016 at 10:42 | comment | added | teego1967 | @Socrates, if you're hiring professional folks, a far more realistic assumption that "prison" to explain a gap would simply be a job stint that didn't work out or a stretch of unemployment for any number of reasonsThis is especially true for people just starting out in their careers. I know you're probably kidding when you say "prison" but a lot of folks take things literally here. | |
| Jun 19, 2016 at 10:02 | comment | added | Anketam | So... if I have a 3 month gap between employment your first assumption I was in jail for that time? That seems to be a very pessimistic assumption. | |
| Jun 19, 2016 at 7:32 | history | answered | Socrates | CC BY-SA 3.0 |