hey everybody Don Georgevich here
with Job Interview Tools and today I want to talk
about your resume and more specifically
what you can leave off your resume so if
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and we'll dive right in so I get a
question from a subscriber he writes and
he says hey Don I was working for four
months at a job
I got fired it's kind of a black eye is
it okay if I leave that job off my
resume absolutely yes you got to
remember a resume is not a confession
you do not have to confess to everything
everywhere every place that you have
worked at or every experience that you
have that's not the point of a resume if
we did that I mean would all have ten
page resumes so you are allowed to pick
and choose what you want to put on and
what you want to leave off and leaving
things off your resume is not a lie I
mean an omission of information is not a
lie I mean employers don't want to see
everything that you've ever done I mean
it makes their job really hard to go
through your resume when you have so
much information on it you don't need
that so it is completely okay to leave
off jobs now the other question people
ask me that like well is there any way
that they can find out that I left off a
job like can they can they look it up in
the the state's computer or the federal
government now that information doesn't
exist there's no database that you can
go punch in I mean maybe if you were to
go to the Taxation Department they would
be able to look and see that you have
some tax records from a certain company
but other than that no they're not going
to be able to find out well I'll take
that back I won't say they won't be able
to find out they won't be able to look
it up I mean let's say for example you
work for a certain company and they
might be able to contact a different
company in that industry to find out if
you ever worked there but I mean that's
quite a stretch and nobody's really
gonna go that far
so I
I said it's okay to leave off a job here
and there you know for four months five
months you know whatever now people say
you know so what do I do about the gap I
mean if I leave that four-month job off
six months eight whatever that creates a
gap in my resume well that depends on
how you list your dates on your resume a
clever way to hide those employment gaps
of four months six months eight ten
whatever is to only use years on your
resume instead of saying the month and
the year of when you started and when
you finished just give a year the
starting year and the ending year now
that creates quite a lot of buffer zone
so I mean if you quit one job at the
beginning of the year and then you
started another job with you work for
four six or eight months and you got
fired quit whatever and then you started
working somewhere else that job is
completely vanished it's just no one
will ever know by the way you arrange
your dates on your resume just use years
only instead of months and years and
booth those jobs just disappear another
thing you can do I mean let's say for
example let's say maybe you work two
years and you don't want to show that
job on your resume for whatever reason
maybe you were fired or maybe it's just
not relevant to what you're looking for
I mean let's say you were a real estate
agent for a couple years and now you're
going back into you know business
consulting or information technology or
programming that real estate work that
you had from two years isn't relevant to
what you know an information technology
company would be looking for so they
don't even want to see it so in cases
like that you want to take those things
off now that might create a bit of a gap
on your resume but you know that just
creates a conversation point in the
interview I really wouldn't worry about
that too much but another option for you
if you want to get rid of like really
big gaps create what's called a
functional resume functional resume has
all of your experience that you talk
about and then it has the
of your employment at the bottom of your
resume so at the beginning which is the
most important party resume you talked
about your experience and you just
talked about your experience in the
context that it is you don't see where
you did it when you did it or anything
else like that and you put all the dates
of your employment at the bottom of your
resume that gives you an opportunity to
showcase your experience rather than
when you acquired that experience and so
you gotta remember resume it's not a
confession and you do not have to say
everything that you've ever done there
and I'll give you another example and
this is a you know personal example from
my own experience you see when I was
working jobs I was an independent
contractor so I would work you know
maybe a year for this company and then
you know I would stop and I'd go work
for a year here and a year there so I
had all these little teeny tiny jobs and
it made my resume look really messy and
it made it look like I was job hopping
because I worked here I here here but
you know I was a consultant that was an
independent consultant and I moved
around to a whole bunch of different
companies so the way to get around that
is to put all of those little jobs that
you had under one umbrella so you create
like you know your own consulting
company you know ADG enterprises down
George of Djenne prices you know
whatever you know ABC consulting and
then you just list your experiences
under there and you don't have to list
all the names of the places that you
worked at you just list the type of
experience that you have on the work
that you did and that way you could take
you could literally take ten years of a
hodgepodge of jobs from working here and
working there and working all over the
place and put them all under one
umbrella and to show a consistent ten
years of employment simple enough all
right so that's all I have for you today
now if you want to go a little bit
farther it's like a little bit farther
any resume and in crafting the resume
that employers want to read that it's
just going to get their attention I
can't recommend the resume masterpiece
enough this is the same guy that I used
to write my resume this is the same
guide that I use when I write
for clients it follows the same approach
from start to finish we start with the
headline we start with a job objective
we start with a professional summary and
then we go into work experience and we
go into writing accomplishments for all
those work experience statements and
most people when they write the resume
all of their work experience has done
with like job description style
statements you know I I did this I did
that and it's just really falls flat
well inside the resume masterpiece I'm
gonna show you how to write strong
accomplishment statement but it's just
going to make your work kind of pop kind
of come alive so that when someone reads
it they're like wow that's impressive
and we do that by using certain words
certain strong adjectives and adverbs
that really lend and demonstrate just a
lot of credibility to the type of work
that you did and I walk you through
every step anybody can do it actually
have a simple formula in here it and it
walks you through creating a strong
accomplishment statement for any type of
work that you did and a lot of people
that like build on you know I don't have
a lot of accomplishments I hardly have
any accomplishments well we all have
some accomplishments we've all done some
things we just don't realize it the
resume masterpiece is going to kind of
reach inside of you and pull out those
accomplishments and show you that you
have a lot of things to be proud of and
and that's the thing a lot of us forget
that we did some other cool things in
our last job and we just don't know how
to frame it or or we kind of we kind of
discount it like oh that's that really
wasn't a big deal I was easy
nobody's gonna be impressed with that
well they will they will and you you are
hiding yourself and you're not letting
people see the real you by masking all
of the things that you've done or
labeling all the things that you've done
insignificant because they're not you
did them they mean something to you
they're special breasts my masterpiece
is like I said it's gonna reach inside
if you pull those out give you a little
bit of shake and say hey did some great
things let's talk about them let's frame
them and let's get them out there so
that people can get a feeling for the
type of work that you did know right my
friend that's all I have for you today
good luck on your next interview and I
will see you in the next video bye now