When you are creating your resume, you don’t need to put every random job you’ve ever had. What companies do is they look at your jobs on the resume, and at most call the employer and ask them if you worked for them and how you did at the job.

There is no way for a non government employee to know if you worked other jobs. Keep off any jobs that you worked at for less than 2 years and use every skill you learned as a skill for your resume.

Nothing hurts your resume more than having 3 or 4 jobs in a span of 2 years because it shows you are unreliable.

  • Diddlydee@feddit.uk
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    4 days ago

    Most employers in my experience want the detail of what you were doing. They don’t like 2 year blanks.

    Having multiple jobs in a few years doesn’t show you are unreliable at all. There could be a number of reasons (short contracts, change of ownership, company closing, moving house, having kids, conditions changing) that forced your move.

    I’ve got jobs in the past because my CV showed I was able and willing to take jobs when opportunities came my way.

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      Yeah, I have 3x short entries on my resume for the same job. Company changed owners and name, then the company that contracted us hired me directly.