Leapfrogging from one job to another in a few months or years doesn’t have to haunt you for the rest of your career. Stop overthinking. Even without the pandemic or economic downturn, the job market is always subject to layoffs, mergers, restructurings, businesses shutting down, downsizing, etc.
The following are a few resume tips for job hoppers:
🐰Use a functional resume format that highlights your skills over your experience.
🐰Appear confident and reliable enough by proving that you know what you are doing.
🐰Get specialized in a niche skill(s) and make those skills the focus.
🐰Highlight what you know from the recent experience and don’t include everything.
🐰Just be honest about your gaps it is okay to have taken a vacation for your wellness.
🐰Use a cover letter where you can explain any nitty gritty that is not on the resume.
🐰If you are in your early career phase, it’s okay to have a few changes to figure out your right path.
🐰Too much movement later on in a career can be read as a sign of instability. Be sure to add only those details that are relevant to the new job.
🐰Startup employees are expected to have few job hops as they face job stability issues.
🐰Client relations people in consulting companies or professional services with job hops are considered awesome due to exposure.
🐰However, in some jobs like sales, marketing, operations, etc job hops are considered a red flag.
🐰Being an entrepreneur and failing in a new business in between is okay too.
🐰Leaving a job to upskill is a great way to show your commitment to self-learning & growth.
🐰Organize your experience and achievements or group it based on skill sets
🐰Consider adding a few jobs on temp work or contract or freelance.
🐰Highlight positives such as multiple roles have given you critical soft skills & 360 deg exposure.
Regardless of your work history, you can still land the jobs of your dream if you know how to position & market yourself correctly.
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