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2 months at one company |
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Are you fishing? |
| Date Posted: |
06/29/2005 |
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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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A couple of observations: what industry did you work in for 3 years? If you had a solid work experience there, it shouldn't matter to B-school admissions folks who will be looking at your GMAT scores, undergrad GPA, personal statement, etc. for admissions.
Also, depending on your previous field, it may not matter to future employers, either. In the tech field, it's been common for techies to take "contract" jobs lasting only a few months at a time (until complteion) and that industry is very well aware of that practice.
I agree with the other poster about only stating years and not months of employment activity on your resume - and Vault recommends the same on its resume service. If the question comes up, be truthful that you worked in the marketing job for less than a year and be candid about why you decided that line of work wasn't a good fit for you.
My last question for you is more general: how much did you really know about marketing before taking that amrketing job - you yearned for years about moving into that field and you and that job failed each other. You need to analyze what went wrong before leaving marketing altogether. And why do you think distance education will be a better job fit? You should probably do some soul-searching and "job-shadowing" before moving into another job area to ensure a good match. Otherwise, you'll be in the same boat again and then, you'll have an even worse time explaining the "job-hopping".
Good luck.
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