They're inadvertently proving that she's normal as hell, and at the same time demonstrating that there is simply no dirt on her. Incredible miss.
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I don't list my high school/college part time job on my professional resume either. It isn't that I'm assumed of where I worked, or it didn't happen, it's just that it feels like small potatoes and not relevant to when I'm applying to a new job in my field.
But if you're the kind of person who achieved everything they ever did because of Daddy's connections, that won't seem obvious to you.
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I don't put my fast food experience on my resume, it was 25 years ago, but I have brought it up in interviews to talk about team work and pressure, and to demonstrate that I've been learning and improving for 25 years.
Same here, a lot of the experience I got in customer service jobs is very relevant for talking with business users in my profession, so it's worth bringing up in interviews, even if it doesn't feel appropriate to list it on my resume as job experience.
I think this type of attempt at a gotcha just shows that right leaning websites/people are grasping at straws when it comes to trying to cut down Harris.
No one puts fast food or retail gigs on their resume unless the experience is relevant or it’s your first or second job after retail.
Exactly you never list irrelevant jobs on a resume. If they ask about the gaps you can tell them but list too many employers can make a resume too long and bore the hiring manager. Also too many employers listed can make it look like you can't hold a job or are unreliable.
Hiring manager here.
Friendly reminder, when you submit your employment history to a future employer, please do exactly what Harris did if you can. Please tell me about your recent relevant experience, and do not list out every random ass summer job you’ve had.
I’m overworked, I’m reading applications between meetings and I need concise, relevant info - not a 5 page memoir.
The entire point of a resume is that it is a 1 page summary of your relevant work experience. It was never meant to be exhaustive or comprehensive.
It's reccomened to do 2 pages these days to hit all the automated resume screening points. 3 pages max if you're in STEM applying for senior+ positions. Most relevant information should be front and center on that first page though for when it gets into the hands of a real person instead of a bot.
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I think the idea of listing every job you've ever had on a resume is very outdated and anyone who still holds this belief is showing their age and privilege. This might have been relevant when you could expect to work for the same company for 20 plus years and maybe only change jobs 2 or more times in your life but that ain't the case now (and hasn't been for decades now). Hell I've lost count of how many companies I've worked for. I even completely changed professions after turning 40. It would be absolutely ridiculous to list any job experience that isn't directly related to the skills needed for the job your applying for.
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There's some old gigs that I leave off just because the reputations of some of the companies I worked for is poor, they're seriously trying to attack her over leaving McDonald's off? Is the Rebuplican strategy to just appeal to boomers by being as out of touch as possible?
Resumes should be concise, not pages long. If information is irrelevant, you should cut it. When applying for a job as a line cook, I'd include that, applying for a job as a lawyer, it makes no sense for them to care if I know I worked at Cheddars
*Just adding to what you were saying, not saying you were saying something different
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Completely ignoring the (better) point that most resumes only really include job history that would directly affect what you're applying for, I have been told countless times that if I so much as dared to include a resume that was more than 1 single page, it would immediately get tossed in the trash.
Or only require a job history for the last X number of years. I would be surprised if I applied for a job and they wanted to know where I worked 35 years ago at a fast food establishment.
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They’re not confused; they are saying she’s poor and black and belongs in fast food and Trump deserves to run the country instead. Asking the question is just a way of trying to be mean about it like a bunch of high school girls in the lunchroom.
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You know what’s weird? Asking 59 year old woman to list her summer jobs from when she was paying her way through college.
Shit, I forgot to include on my resume that 1 week I worked at dominos where I received no training and spent the entire time either being following around by the driver while he rambled on about conspiracy theories, erasing the chalkboard nipples someone kept drawing on the dining room chalkboard, or both. Guess my employer should fire me from my IT job now. /s
Decades into my senior leadership IT career I've always harbored the dark secret that I didn't disclose on my resume I worked summers at a go-kart track in a tourist trap town in high school. /s
Tsk tsk, shame on you.
Wow fucking insane that she would list relevant work experience and omit irrelevant work experience on a job application. Glad these guys got the scoop, sounds like it took three people so it must have been significant effort.
My resume goes back 27-years, but at least it's all tech related. But that's still ridiculous and I don't know why I haven't culled it.
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Three authors to say "We don't know how resumes and job applications work!"
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In high school, I worked a coffee kiosk in a Costco. In college, I worked at a Taco Time, a portable coffee cart, and (very briefly) a shitty telemarketing company.
None of those jobs ever appear on my resume. Ever. They're simply inapplicable. I'm a software developer. Why the fuck would a potential employer care that I know how to pull an espresso shot?
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I started to type out an argument that politicians should have to do x amount of time in fast food or retail before running for office, but then I realized that's a road to fascism. After months of customers yelling at you for the pink shirt not being pink enough and demanding to know why you're hiding the real pink shirts in the back, rounding people up in concentration camps is going to start to looking very reasonable.
My resume has 4 to 5 jobs on it, single page. I leave out tones of slop, and include only the most relevant jobs for the position to which I'm applying.
So I should include the 4 Saturdays I worked as a 6'2 tall Kid Vid (the short lived burger king mascot) in 1993 in Crawley Town centre (and scared a lot of kids because I was WAY TOO TALL - the costume was designed for a 5'4 girl), because it's relevant experience to my 30 year career in it consultancy. Gotcha
knowing she worked mcdonalds makes me like her more.
Your apartment neighbor on one side of you is a 20 something named Tim who you've seen go to great lengths help people out in need gets a little too deep into video games that his mate gets frustrated with him. He talks about how much he wants to be a teacher and help young people succeed. Your neighbor on the other side is another 20 something named Kamala who graduated recently and is working at McDonalds but tells you about her pending enrollment in law school.
You think to yourself "Why can't these people be the ones running the country?"
I leave anything over 10 years off my resume. This is a nothing-burger.
Not dipshits, assholes. They're not ignorant, they're not stupid. They're intentionally malicious assholes that know better but would rather be complete assholes.
Reminds me of the time in my late 30s while applying for a warehouse job that I left out the fast food job I did while in highschool. Nobody questioned it, but maybe it's because I'm a white guy that's not running for president against a mob of insane conservatives.
I've hired someone who'd worked at McDonalds. It was for a technical support position, and I knew that if he could handle five years of your average McD's customer then he would be amazing at dealing with our customers.
I totally read “bacon” and immediately started thinking about wind power.
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