Is it ok to leave a job off of a resume?

[aphex]

If things didnt work out so well there?

 

[DivideBYZero]

Why not?

When companies advertise, they don't tell you all the bad sh!t, just the good sh!t.

You are advertising yourself with your resume, so make it good.

Good luck!

 

[Eli]

Of course.

 

[LordJezo]

Of course it is..

When you are 35 I highly doubt you'll want to put down Shoprite cashier or such things for example..

But even when younger it won't matter.

 

[DurocShark]

Heh... Shoprite cashier...

How about Weinerschnitzel? Or Sav-On?

I only list the jobs related to the position I'm applying for. I'm not 18 anymore and don't have to show jobs just to fill my resume. I also only submit single-page resumes. Tempting as it is to use 2 pages to list everything I've done in past jobs, I find that recruiters are more responsive to crisp, simple, and easily understandable resumes (since they're usually clueless anywayz.) I keep a more detailed resume available to give to the IT manager when I go interview, and explain that I didn't want to overburden the HR person.

 

[imported_Papi]

I usually limit the list of past jobs on a resume. I usually take the best three jobs and emphasize on them only.

It's never steered me wrong.

 

[Ness]

It's perfectly fine.

However, if they notice a gap in the time between jobs, and they ask you what was going on, you can't lie.

 

[Regs]

That is true. Some jobs look at your resume as it where a time line. Especially the time period after you graduated school, no time for dilly dally. But jobs you had when you where a teenager they could care less about. They just like to see ambitious students come staright out of college more importantly.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

In my case, I've worked 5 years as an engineering tech, a company won't give a rats arse how I was the year and a half before as a line cook.

 

[TheCorm]

I replaced one of my main jobs with a part time job that I did....but that was years ago.

 

[DevilsAdvocate]

Originally posted by: Eli
Of course.

 

[Tsaico]

I agree that it is fine that you leave some employment off. I also generally list only the related jobs. Another thing, if you didn't make it past the probationary period, you also do not have to list it.

 

[TravisT]

I think it depends on how old you are. I know when I got my job i currently have, i was young. They wanted to know ANY previous working experience I had prior. And even on my resume, they asked for a new one because i hadn't listed where I currently worked. So if you've only worked at 2 fast food restraunts and you have had schooling for another job. I would list those 2 fast food restraunts (if they were good experiences) rather than having nothing other than listing you were in school for 2 years or whatever.

 

[AU Tiger]

It's ok to leave it off a resume, but be prepared to explain if it creates a gap in your employment history.

 

[oboeguy]

What AU Tiger said.

Someone asked this of a headhunter at a presentation at school the other day, and the answer was pretty much what Tiger said.