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Entry Bureau wants all jobs since graduation. List 'em all?
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spiral78



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 3:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This seems like madness to me:-)

Of course, you have to play by their rules, so if they don't want to see any gaps, you shouldn't show any.

But do note that this isn't common practice everywhere in the world! If anyone sent me such an extensive CV here in Europe, I'd scrap it immediately. We only want to see relevant experience - if that goes back a few years, fine, but don't elaborate on your summer camp counselor gigs or your job at your uncle's automotive shop in high school. Not that those aren't totally honorable gigs; just not relevant to the job you are supposedly trying to apply for.
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OhBudPowellWhereArtThou



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 7:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

rioux wrote:
What got me was they seemed all bent out of shape because in my 20+ years of work about a year of it (from 15 years ago) was left blank. They were incredibly suspicious. I explained to them I wasn't working because my parents needed me to live with them at that time to take care of them - my mother had cancer. After I told them it was as if they didn't even hear me and just carried on how I have 1 year unaccounted for.


I agree with Spiral. This is madness.

If I had a run of unemployment that far back, I'd just cover it with either the job prior to the unemployment or the job after it.

Better yet, refer to that period of employment as Home Care Specialist.
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