Comment on YSK Employers do NOT verify your total work history unless you're applying for a government position.

• Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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  • plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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…

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    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Caring for a family member would have no relevance to just as many, if not more, positions than it holds relevance to.

      Like any tech related position beyond (at quite a stretch) helpdesk, not relevant.

      There’s something to be said for character reference in your resume, but most places are more concerned about more tangible skills.

      Like another commenter suggested, maybe under an “other experience” section, but not in the same area as relevant work experience unless you’re trying to pad things.

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      • plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Carrying for a family includes but not limited; dealing with financing, scheduling, transit, meal planning, etc. you’re the persons care taker, you do everything they would normally be doing. There’s every day tasks that are relevant to every job.

        Tell me you think being a caretaker means sitting around doing nothing all day….

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    • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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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      • plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Dealing with finances, scheduling, planning and transit aren’t relevant to a sales position?

        Do you not realize what being a caretaker involves?

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    • Ajen@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You aren’t thinking like a hiring manager.

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• henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I wouldn’t list it because it’s in a section that is titled “Work Experience” not my life journal. I even personally call mine “Relevant Experience” and note to please reach out if you’d like to see more, out of respect for their time. My full experience would take up like five pages of resume with everything else. Besides, to me the point of the resume is to get to that phone call, and after that I figure I can talk to anything they’d like to know.

  Man I wish I lived in a place that had benefits like that.

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  • plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Being a caregiver is its own work experience, you should list it.

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    • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sure but being a caregiver doesn’t help explain why you’d be good for a software engineering role, or whatever.

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      • plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Actually caring for others, is quite a relevant work trait for even software engineering. Don’t want a bunch of people who can’t handle communicating with others or can’t get someone to do something.

        It’s all I how you spin it, and clearly you aren’t using this for anything but a lie if you think it’s not valid work experience.

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