RE: How to indicate contract work on resumes?

[Maggie Pierce Secara <maggiros -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

I differentiate because I've had so many short gigs in
between the "permanent" jobs.  The headhunter and even
the hiring manager tend to see that and nothing else. 
Even after I say that the small ones are all short
contracts, it seems like their minds are made up. 
Unless absolutely required to turn in a straight
chrono resume, I break the contracts out into their
own section and put it after the perms, unless I'm
going for a contract, in which case I switch them
around :)

On the other points, it looks like we take the same
tack. 


Maggie Secara
~polishing it up yet again as the (name withheld)
company I've been at for a year prepares to take a
dive. <sigh>


--- John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

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