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I'm sending out my first application in a couple weeks. As it stands, I have five different jobs on my resume with only about 5 years of work experience. My resume is also very academic (MA in the humanities, + publications and post-grad research internship) , and for the first three or four years of my work history, I worked on long-term, information system projects at three different places. These jobs lasted from 6-15 months each. I had job titles, but no salary (I was paid hourly). In one instance, I was a "casual hourly" employee working on a project-to-project basis, and in the other two, I was contracted through a third party. For the past two years, I've been teaching high school full-time.
Right now, I include a separate entry for each position on my resume. This is a problem for a number of reasons. It makes my work history look very jumpy (which it is), but without explaining the reality of the situation (I was doing long-term project work). To the admissions officer reading my resume, it looks like I don't have staying power, which automatically makes me a risky applicant. At worse, it makes it look like I kept getting fired!
My resume right now looks like this:
B.A., Anthro, Top Liberal Arts, 2007
M.A., History, Top School, 2008
Faculty, Private School X, 2013-present
Faculty, Private School Y 2013
Systems Assistant, HYP Uni. Library, 2011-2012
Cataloger, HYP Uni. Research Institute, 2012-2013
Records Management Assistant, Real Estate Company, 2009-2010
My idea was that I could reformat my resume to looks like this:
B.A., Anthro, Top Liberal Arts, 2007
M.A., History, Top School, 2008
Faculty, Private School X, 2013-present
Faculty, Private School Y 2013
Freelance Project Manager, 2009-2012 (or a better heading?)
- - Systems Assistant, HYP Uni. Library (2011-2012)
- - Cataloger, HYP Uni. Research Institute (2012-2013)
- - Records Management Assistant, Real Estate Company (2009-2010)
That way I have 3 separate jobs instead of 5. How would this come off? Would it eliminate my present red flags, or would it just raise new questions?
Right now, I include a separate entry for each position on my resume. This is a problem for a number of reasons. It makes my work history look very jumpy (which it is), but without explaining the reality of the situation (I was doing long-term project work). To the admissions officer reading my resume, it looks like I don't have staying power, which automatically makes me a risky applicant. At worse, it makes it look like I kept getting fired!
My resume right now looks like this:
B.A., Anthro, Top Liberal Arts, 2007
M.A., History, Top School, 2008
Faculty, Private School X, 2013-present
Faculty, Private School Y 2013
Systems Assistant, HYP Uni. Library, 2011-2012
Cataloger, HYP Uni. Research Institute, 2012-2013
Records Management Assistant, Real Estate Company, 2009-2010
My idea was that I could reformat my resume to looks like this:
B.A., Anthro, Top Liberal Arts, 2007
M.A., History, Top School, 2008
Faculty, Private School X, 2013-present
Faculty, Private School Y 2013
Freelance Project Manager, 2009-2012 (or a better heading?)
- - Systems Assistant, HYP Uni. Library (2011-2012)
- - Cataloger, HYP Uni. Research Institute (2012-2013)
- - Records Management Assistant, Real Estate Company (2009-2010)
That way I have 3 separate jobs instead of 5. How would this come off? Would it eliminate my present red flags, or would it just raise new questions?
