I need Resume help please!

[Wildfire]

Hey all!

I have been working on updating my Resume and need a little help with one specific aspect. Over the past 2 years I have been working for a company only on a temporary basis. Whenever they need me they call me and I come in. The job lasts for a day or two and then I am done. A few months later it happens all over again. The question is how do I represent this in a resume (ie. what do I put for dates as I have multiple dates, etc)? Please help as I have searched using yahoo and google and just can't come up with anything. Thanks!

 

[amnesiac]

You could either list it as one solid chunk of time and note that you were in a temporary/on call/contractual position, or you could omit the date completely.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: amnesiac 2.0
You could either list it as one solid chunk of time and note that you were in a temporary/on call/contractual position, or you could omit the date completely.

Yup. Just make sure you don't mislead anyone during an interview. They often ask you direct questions from your resume. In which case... you'd have to explain it was a temporary/contract job then anyway.

If it were me, I'd put in the whole chunk of time and explain it when the time comes. I did this when I had a contractor position, left to return to school, then came back to work full time. After I left that job, I dated it from the beginning of being a contractor to my last day of full-time duty. School in between was 4 months. They were more concerned with what I had accomplished there (experience) anyway.