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TIL most people are using the wrong resume format for dead end jobs

I spent 10 years bouncing between retail and call center gigs before I figured this out. Everyone keeps telling you to use a chronological format that lists every job going back 10 years. But if you've got 4 or 5 short stints at places like dollar stores or fast food, that format just makes you look flaky. I switched to a functional resume format back in 2018 after a career counselor at a job center near Columbus suggested it. Grouped my skills instead of dates and suddenly got way more callbacks. The trick is to highlight what you actually did like handling angry customers or balancing a cash drawer. I've seen so many people get stuck because they follow that old advice blindly. You gotta try something different for those dead end job gaps to not look bad.

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jakegarcia3mo ago

Wait, 10 years jumping between retail and call centers? And you only figured that out in 2018? Man I've been doing retail since 2016 and I'm just now hearing about this. That's wild.

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bettyh843mo ago

Wild" is one word for it... I call it a decade of bad decisions.

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