Saturday, July 16, 2011
Now that's just sad.
So last night I was perusing craigslist to see if there were any jobs I was interested in. I found a couple that might be a good fit. One of them asked to email them a resume. So I found a resume building site and got to work. It's just so sad. My resume is puny. I've been out of the workforce for a long time and my work history is rather short. It made me feel like a loser. I don't regret staying home with my children and I love being able to take care of everyone full time but when I wrote down my experience on a paper it was sort of jarring. Do I think I could do the jobs? Absolutely! They are right up my alley. It's just that on paper I don't look impressive at all. No place to add my experience with sick children, or the fact that I can check homework and make dinner at the same time. *SIGH*
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3 comments:
SAHM's would be so much happier with their work if only they could get raises and promotions. You need to create some incentive programs:)
I agree that it's sad, and unwarranted, but maybe you could use a format that lets you list your skills, rather than your work experience, and use your cover letter to explain your time away from the workplace and how you've been able to increase your time management and priorizing ability. It won't work for every employer, but it might appeal to the right onel Good luck with it.
I decided to ask my husband to help me. Since he hires people at his place of business he should be able to help me craft it to be more appealing. We'll see. I'm still not 100% sure I want a job but I'm interested in exploring the option.
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