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Subject:RE: How to indicate contract work on resumes? From:John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 17 Jan 2003 13:00:08 -0500
I don't differentiate between employee and contract on the resume. I don't
work differently, so why should it matter? They may TREAT me differently,
but that's their problem. If the client asks what type of arrangement it was
during the interview, I tell them.
I also don't include the type of company. I do include the type of work.
Just the name of the company and the beginning/ending Month/Year.
The name of the company where I was assigned. To me, the agency, at that
point, is a payroll processing service. I leave them alone as much as
possible and I expect them to leave me alone as much as possible.
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
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-----Original Message-----
From: sclarke -at- nucleus -dot- com [mailto:sclarke -at- nucleus -dot- com]
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 12:31 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: How to indicate contract work on resumes?
Hi:
I'm just wondering whether there's any "usual" way of showing/indicating
contract work on technical writing resumes? Do you simply state that it
was "x or y" kind of contract and the duration? And the duties
performed?Do people indicate the name of the company (employer) for whom
the work was performed?
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