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2 months at one company |
| Message Name: |
It only matters until your next position. |
| Date Posted: |
06/22/2005 |
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I recently left a company I had been working at for three years to take a job in marketing - an industry I had wanted to be in for years. However, after only two weeks at the new place, I began to realize it was not the place for me - the culture was not right, the job was not what I thought it would be, and the work (marketing for financial services) did not interest me as much as I had originally thought.
Now I am considering taking another position at a distance education company. How will it look to future employers, and business school admissions representatives, looking at my resume and seeing a tenure of only two months at one company? Is this something I will be able to explain or will my resume be ignored immediately? |
| Message: |
I've been in the same situation a couple of times over the past 10 years or so. My advice is to, for the time being, only show the YEARS (not mm/yy) of employment on your resume. That way you're not lying to prospective employers, and, at the same time, you're keeping your current employer off of your resume. There are several advantages in doing this in addition to not appearing as if, these days, you're in the mode of accepting any position until a better one comes along: after just two months, you really haven't obtained much experience at your current employer to be of benefit at any place else, anyway; also, related to this same reason, employers tend to dwell on your most recent or current position stated on your resume, and you'd like that to be with your last employer where you worked for three years.
Regardless of this advice, once you get another position and are in it for a longer period of time, you can eliminate this short-term job from your resume. For now, though, once a prospective employer contacts you, just be honest about where you're currently working and how it is not what you had expected.
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