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Multile Jobs on Resume |
| Message Name: |
Not necessarily |
| Date Posted: |
09/15/2004 |
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was laid off last summer and last fall I Had to take my current job though I suspected the company wasn't doing well. Now I am facing another layoff. Should I explain in my cover letter why I am looking for work again? Does the multiple jobs on my resume hurt me?
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Multiple jobs and layoffs are not the kiss of death they used to be. The person interviewing you or reading your resume is likely to have switched jobs and/or been laid off at least once.
I'm not sure you need to address the question in your cover letter, though you will need to in an interview. Be honest and not apologetic. Say that the company restructured you out of a job. Or, if you left a job because you hated it, say that you found the work environment different from what you had expected, and that you didn't have much opportunity to do the kind of work at which you excel and which excites us. Remember, even Albert Einstein had a boring, dead-end job in the Swiss Patent Office. Of course he used his spare time to develop the theory of relativity, but that's another story.
When you are on the outside, it looks as if everyone on the inside has it made and is perfectly happy and has never had a single problem. It is not true! Most, if not all, people will understand, since most of them have been there too.
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