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What will employers say when you do not show your earlier work experience on your resume , which could 5 years.
I have 26 yrs experience of work since college, but I am going to show only 3 jobs for 20 yrs of revelant work experienceone job. The 4th job is not directly revelant for my next job but has one of my references. If I add this job I will be showing 23 yrs work experience. Can I leave it off and still give it as a reference even thouth it is not on my resume. I will put it on the job application, but iI want to get my foot in the door.
When you've had as many jobs as I've had, over the last 20 years...I can't even remember them all! And some of them are no longer in business--at least not at that location.
What will employers say when you do not show your earlier work experience on your resume , which could 5 years.
I have 26 yrs experience of work since college, but I am going to show only 3 jobs for 20 yrs of revelant work experienceone job. The 4th job is not directly revelant for my next job but has one of my references. If I add this job I will be showing 23 yrs work experience. Can I leave it off and still give it as a reference even thouth it is not on my resume. I will put it on the job application, but iI want to get my foot in the door.
Well what can they say? How would they even know unless they ran a background? Sometimes people have legitimate reasons for leaving out a former company they worked for.
yes, but what is in that background check? That is what worries me. some just do a criminal background check others will do a credit check. (I avoid those because I think that is just downright nosy!) I don't put ss numbers on applications anymore either. I just put down that I will supply it at interview if needed. Even then it bothers me because no one needs your ss number if they are not going to hire you.
OP,
your are doing well to keep one job off. Otherwise, it becomes too long for the employers to read assimilate. I have about 14 years of experience and resume just spilled into two pages so I am going to delete the first two jobs I currently have on and leave just about 8 years worth of experience. And I don't list any of my temp/consultant work either. I think is OK to have that reference only on the application as a personal one. The experience needs not to be on the resume. To be honest, I think nowdays employers only care for the last 10 years unless it is a really senior person such a CEO or the like.
A resume is not a legal document!
The job application is, so if they ask for "all" then you need to list it, be careful if they only have 3 slots and they have fine print to write on the back, otherwise only list the specified: last 3 jobs or last 10 years.
You can even have a tailored resume, which doesn't even have to show consecutive jobs.
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