Posted by BeardedLady on December 21, 2002, at 14:17:01
In reply to Resumé Advice, posted by JonW on December 21, 2002, at 13:18:19
I have written and designed some resumés for a living (well, for part of my job) and have even done some teaching on it. No one likes a gap in time, and you do wind up having to explain it.
You don't want to say you were on disability. Is there any way you can look that up?
When I was a teen and needed enough experience to get a real job, I lied. I got my mom's company or my dad's company to pretend they hired me for that expanse of time. That way, when a prospective employer called, the owner of the company was in on it.
Here's what to do now that you're a big boy. Call it Jon W.'s consulting firm, and say that you decided to do freelance work while you figured out what you wanted to do, always hoping to go back to your love (whatever this job is) someday. Tailor your duties to fit whatever you are applying to do.
Here's another tip from the wordsmith (who probably has umpteen typos here): start all items in lists with verbs. So put your company name, job title, time employed, then bullet all your duties: wrote blank, produced blank, connected blank, answered blank, raised blank, shot, filmed, recorded, filed, discarded, etc.
Whatever you did, make it a verb. Don't ever start "responsible for," and make sure ALL the items are a different verb and none are a different part of speech.
Well, hope it helps. I'm sorry to suggest lying, but dishonesty is the best policy in this case. Besides, you really did work for yourself--to get yourself better.
beardy
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