Thread: Resume/Application Job Experience

Getting the previous rant out of the way, looks like I might have plenty of time to start job searching again (and again hopefully do some volunteer work). I talked about this before but curious how to set it up. One of the issues I have with my resume is the lack of job experience and gaps because of school/economy/etc. I think Civil or someone mentioned listing things like school/etc. in that section to kill the gaps, how should I do it though?

My schoolwork wasn't that great either, I've been just omitting one year all together as I had all shits of bad stuff going on and did horrible (paid the price for that too, but hopefully back on track now). Prior to that I was C's mostly, a few D's or F's and probably one too many W's. Since the omitted year I've done pretty well, one D and I think one C (maybe), mostly B's.

Outside of that I have experience in different business clubs for a couple years, though no officer positions except high school and maybe one year at JUCO.

Should I just move school stuff and classes taken into the jobs section and cut out the education section then? Should I be including the omitted year? Should I post club stuff in jobs or as achievements (or whatever I called it) where it is now?

In terms of applications, same thing. If they separate education and jobs should I still throw education in there both times anyways?

(I probably have more work I need to do on my Resume anyways, been about the same since high school (ish) except for adding stuff and some minor tailoring for different jobs).

Thanks for the advice/help. No idea if anyone even reads here anymore granted xD

What type of work are you applying for?

Originally Posted by CivilWars

What type of work are you applying for?

Not sure yet, will probably be retail work (hopefully stocking but not going to be too overally picky) or warehouse work. I have a tiny bit of experience with warehouses though. Volunteer wise going to try a no-kill shelter and potentially the local PD and other I can find looking for people.

Main thing was a sort of vastly general idea so I'm not totally loss when doing applications. I probably SHOULD look at UPS/Fed-Ex/DHL/USPS types since changed my degree to Logistics/Supply Chain management (and can't think of many businesses that would of have entry-level or low skill hourly in a department like that outside of shipping companies).

Hiring managers are going to see right through gap-fillers if its not substantial or important for what theyre hiring for. If theyre getting 100s (if not 1000s) of resumes across their desk you need something thats going to make yours memorable to at least get your foot in the door. I would suggest a nice brief cover letter to attach with your resume accentuating your qualities and fluffing the company a bit showing them how you would be a good fit.

I agree with enf. I would just put that you have been in school from MM/YY until present. For the positions you mention I doubt they are going to ask for a semester by semester breakdown. Then put your employment and volunteer work in addition to that.

I'll leave this here... I have only applied for 2 jobs and got both, am now self employed and very happy. First impressions are key, make sure you are something different and research prior to interviews (know founding dates, products and mantras...).



http://mashable.com/2013/03/02/resume-design/

That'll get you started with the resume.

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Originally Posted by maximusboomus

I'll leave this here... I have only applied for 2 jobs and got both, am now self employed and very happy. First impressions are key, make sure you are something different and research prior to interviews (know founding dates, products and mantras...).



http://mashable.com/2013/03/02/resume-design/

That'll get you started with the resume.

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Yep, and don't forget the nice paper.

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Resume paper is a MUST!

If you can't find any at Office Depot/Stables/etc., places like Kinkos should have some available to print off there.

Thanks all for the tips, going to try to do a mock-up on Thursday (so I can start doing more job applications then currently looking for ones not wanting a resume uploaded). I'd do it sooner but it seems quite a bit of the work needed is going to be much easier to do in Microsoft Word.