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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Business, Finance, and Careers > The Resume and Interview ULTRATHREAD: they saw Amazonian attributes
 
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Gweenz
Jan 27, 2011
 I am an IT guy, currently working on a new resume. A brief rundown of my last 15 years or so goes like this:

College, bachelor's degree in MIS, December of 2000.
Service industry, including delivering food, waiting tables, managing a sandwich shop (2 years), 2001-2011.
Small IT shop, building PCs, troubleshooting, virus removal, networking, sales, basically everything involved in running a small IT business, 2011-2013.
IT Network Specialist (Cisco) associates degree from local tech school, completing fall 2013.

I went back to school to "refresh" my education, since it was very difficult to get an IT job with my history. I am a 4.0 student and have references from instructors and high level local businessmen. With my (over)education and last 2 years experience I have never been, nor felt, more valuable and ready to contribute. To me, the service industry experience is invaluable and I would NOT be able to do the things I can do without it. I feel I am far more well rounded than the average IT employee. On my resume, what is the best way to emphasize these experiences without making it look like a giant career dark-age?

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Gweenz
Jan 27, 2011

Bisty Q. posted:

Nobody cares. Sorry to be blunt, but I would immediately stop reading as soon as I got to 2011.

If you insist on putting it on there, put them all in one small section of "Other Experience" and give them each a single line. You should be spending the vast majority of your resume on your recent, relevant experience for the field, then talk about the newly-acquired education and credentials, then if there is any room left, squeeze in your other jobs.

Blunt is good! It's actually much easier for me to write it that way. Thanks for the advice.

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