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> I once lost a good opportunity because the person who had to approve
> the offer before it went out concluded I was the sort to just hop
> from job to job, in spite of the fact that all that "job hopping"
> was just ordinary contracting
Maggie:
Does your resume list each of your contract jobs as a separate entry in
your work history? If so, it might help to rewrite it so that, instead
of showing many jobs that each lasted only a few months, it shows just
one job -- "Freelance Technical Writer" -- which you've been steadily
performing for many years.
The individual contracts would, of course, be listed in the description
of your accomplishments at that job.
-Andrew
=== Andrew Warren - awarren -at- synaptics -dot- com
=== Synaptics, Inc - Santa Clara, CA
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