When you are creating your resume, you don’t need to put every random job you’ve ever had. What companies do is they look at your jobs on the resume, and at most call the employer and ask them if you worked for them and how you did at the job.

There is no way for a non government employee to know if you worked other jobs. Keep off any jobs that you worked at for less than 2 years and use every skill you learned as a skill for your resume.

Nothing hurts your resume more than having 3 or 4 jobs in a span of 2 years because it shows you are unreliable.

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    Because resumes are for listing relevant work experience not a timeline of your life events.

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      Being a caregiver is relevant work experience, quite sad that some people think caring for others isn’t relevant for a large portion of work…

      Talk about not trying to sell yourself wow. If shows a whole bunch of characteristics that are known for employability. Wild you wouldn’t want to show that you don’t mind putting others first, can work in a stressful environment, caring, works well with others, etc. m

      There’s also money involved, transit, you can always find something relevant in caregiving to any potential career.

      Or do you think caregiving is just sitting around all day doing nothing?

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        Being a caregiver is relevant work experience if the job you’re applying to is for caregiving, or at least something semi-related like the medical field.

        But if you’re applying for programming or sales positions it’s entirely irrelevant.

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          Dealing with finances, scheduling, planning and transit aren’t relevant to a sales position? That’s an interesting take.

          Do you not realize what being a caregiver involves?