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Can you do me a favor and stop posting in my thread? Tobacco is a legally sold product, just like alcohol. I don't smoke, and many of my co-workers didn't smoke. But people do smoke. It's their own body. Just like there are people that eat McDonalds everyday. Is it unethical to work at fast-food restaurants when obesity rates are rising and people die from heart disease everyday? Take personal responsibility for yourself and no one else.
If you're willing to lie, then, whatever wrath comes with it, you deserve. You are inviting that karma into your life. This is a junction where you can make the 'right' or 'wrong' choice. What are you going to choose? ... In 5-10 years do you want to look back & be proud of standing up for yourself? Are you going to explain to your kids someday that you wre able to get yourself out of a pickle, or that you lied, & had to pay the consequences? hmmmm.
Lying your way into or out of anything is never a good idea. (didn't we all learn that by like 3rd gr?)
Honestly if I see on a resume someone worked for Greenpeace I'd have an impression of what that person was like. If I see on a resume someone worked for a tobacco company, I'd automatically get a negative impression. Wrong or right, people do make judgements based on what type of companies you worked at.
It's their job, not their belief. I knew a lot of people who worked for Brown & Williamson that never smoked a day in their life. But they needed their job.
Some of you folks should not be in a position to hire anyone if you can't think objectively and not let personal feelings into it.
Absolutely. It takes a lot of skill to be successful at this for 4 years. List the skills and applications learned in this position.
Not really, the past 4 years the stock market has skyrocketed. You could've bought any established and hyped up stock and made a small fortune easily. My stocks that I rarely even looked at is up 30% just from last year.
So can someone help me out? I'm working on my resume, and just not sure what to put for my experience as a stock trader since July 2007 - present. How should I write it on my resume? what "duties" and "skills" should I write? If there's any good resume-writers here, help please
Write down what you did to do the day trading. Such as research, etc. Then see about how to fit it into a job description and list of accomplishments. Speaking of which list accomplishments. "Turn an investment of $10K into $25K within 2 months", that sort of thing.
If it were me I would find a resume of a hedge fund manager on the net to get a "idea/template" and be ready to back up your success with financial records.
Over 90% day traders fail so if you have proof, not sim account PnL, that will go along ways.
Write down what you did to do the day trading. Such as research, etc. Then see about how to fit it into a job description and list of accomplishments. Speaking of which list accomplishments. "Turn an investment of $10K into $25K within 2 months", that sort of thing.
Yes, emphasize what you accomplished over what you did. I hired a resume consultant a while ago, and she kept yelling at me, "you keep telling me what you did! You need to tell me what you accomplished!" So if you turned X amount of money into 20X, then you need to state that sort of quantifiable fact.
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