I've read some interesting threads in this section, but there's one issue I haven't come across that, at one time, was a real head-scratcher for me. When you go looking for a regular job in the "wog" world, in what way do you refer to your time on staff in Scn?
This is no longer an issue for me. My time on staff was 30 years ago, now. Entire sections of my professional life have one-sentence summaries, even when they're relevant to my industry. (After all, who cares what I worked on 20 years ago? The stuff that matters in a resume is recent accomplishments.)
But at one point, soon after I left, I had no idea what to write down.
On the one hand, it's what I'd spent the last few years doing. I had learned things that (arguably) were relevant to the job for which I was applying (or so I hoped, anyhow). And I didn't really want a great gaping hole in the timeline, about which someone might ask questions.
On the other hand, I didn't really want to bring it up. Whatever my opinions were about the Scn/staff experience, in resume terms it was simply "Hey, I worked there." A job interview (or the hope of one!) isn't the time to bring up emotionally charged issues (the same might be said about working for a political party or an abortion clinic). When you're presenting yourself in a resume, you want people to focus on what you KNOW and what you can DO, not the company where you worked and its public perception.
Even if you are circumspect, how many of us can easily summarize our positions? "I was in charge of marketing services to consumers..."? Somehow that didn't take body routing into account.
As it turns out, I was lucky. I got a job very quickly after leaving, by returning full-time to a company where I'd worked as college summer jobs (therefore they knew my personal reputation and the resume was irrelevant). But not everyone is in that state.
I'm curious how y'all handled it.
This is no longer an issue for me. My time on staff was 30 years ago, now. Entire sections of my professional life have one-sentence summaries, even when they're relevant to my industry. (After all, who cares what I worked on 20 years ago? The stuff that matters in a resume is recent accomplishments.)
But at one point, soon after I left, I had no idea what to write down.
On the one hand, it's what I'd spent the last few years doing. I had learned things that (arguably) were relevant to the job for which I was applying (or so I hoped, anyhow). And I didn't really want a great gaping hole in the timeline, about which someone might ask questions.
On the other hand, I didn't really want to bring it up. Whatever my opinions were about the Scn/staff experience, in resume terms it was simply "Hey, I worked there." A job interview (or the hope of one!) isn't the time to bring up emotionally charged issues (the same might be said about working for a political party or an abortion clinic). When you're presenting yourself in a resume, you want people to focus on what you KNOW and what you can DO, not the company where you worked and its public perception.
Even if you are circumspect, how many of us can easily summarize our positions? "I was in charge of marketing services to consumers..."? Somehow that didn't take body routing into account.
As it turns out, I was lucky. I got a job very quickly after leaving, by returning full-time to a company where I'd worked as college summer jobs (therefore they knew my personal reputation and the resume was irrelevant). But not everyone is in that state.
I'm curious how y'all handled it.