Re: Non Tech Writing Experience on Resume?
So now I wonder if I should be filling in the gap of time on my resume since
Feb so employers know that I have not been sleeping all day long or is it
just unnecessary fodder that will be simply extend my resume and annoy those
who perhaps would have otherwise given me a chance?
That's a somewhat tricky question. On the one hand, your cooking experience is likely to be immaterial for 99%+ of all tech writing jobs. On the other hand, an unexplained gap in your CV may raise doubts: What was she doing in this time? Perhaps she was in a job that has gone disastrously wrong? So disastrously that any inquiries at the previous company would kill all chances of a new job?
Since you clearly do not want this, it seems better to explain the time truthfully, if certainly not prominently, in your CV. You may want to spin it a bit, too. Instead of an abortive culinary career, your stint could have been a time out that you gave yourself and during which you - a dedicated hobby cook - pursued your lifelong dream to acquire some professional cooking techniques.
Merry Christmas, everybody
Jan Henning
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Jan Henning
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Am Schlossberg 14, D-82547 Eurasburg, Germany
Phone: +49 700 0200 0700, Fax: +49 8179 9307-12
E-Mail: henning -at- r-l -dot- de, Web: www.r-l.de
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