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Working Around Bad Luck on the Resume?
Dodger asks: "A year ago I was laid off from my job after 2 1/2 years, shortly after the product I was working on shipped. Later that year, a company moved me 1500 miles from Texas to California, to start working on a promising project, just to have the plug pulled by the corporation that funded it five weeks later, which resulted in another layoff. Now, there's a period of job seeking followed by a five week period of employment, followed by the current job seeking period on my resume. When the companies I interview with ask about that situation I simply explain, while trying not to whine or complain. What do other Slashdot readers do to make 'bad luck' (or bad employer choices) look less bad on their resume, and sound less bad in interviews?"
If the person interviewing you is a white coder who reads Slashdot tell them your job was outsourced.
When they ask questions of prior jobs that were unsatisfactory, simply yell "That's none of your concern, you insensative clod!"
Setec Astronomy
...to bond with my fellow inmates.
Reminds me of a funny Dogbert strip:
Always put impressive but impossible to verify jobs on your resume.
Employer: So Mr. Dogbert, it says here that you worked as a senior spy for the CIA.
Dogbert: Yes, and I was told to kill anyone who asks for details about it.
It is best if you can account for all of your time while unemployed.
What if you can account for most of it, barring some minor blackout periods where you wake up in the back of a hardware store, naked from the waist down lying in a pool of your own vomit? Theoretically speaking, I mean.
Haida Manga
The best thing to do would to simply explain to them that the man's trying to hold you down. Also, that you'll program for food.
Photo Aspect -- an open, free, J2EE & JBoss photoalbu
... just tell them, " I'm glad you brought this up, and even happier you read /., because they actually posted my submission on this very topic and an hour later I had excellent karma "
-- I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous
Hear! Hear!
On my resume, my employment history tends to look something like this:
Everyone who interviews me simply assumes I've had continuous employment, and I see no need to disabuse them of that notion.
1. Sliding on concrete is a short run before a sharp drop off, the curb.
2. Shit is easy to wash off. Scars are hard to hide.
3. You haven't done a lot of dating have you?
The journey is better then the end.