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For work experience like waitressing or a sales associate for retail, do I really need to include bullet points saying what I did? Especially if I've had the same position multiple times at different places?

brinicolec wrote:For work experience like waitressing or a sales associate for retail, do I really need to include bullet points saying what I did? Especially if I've had the same position multiple times at different places?

Unnecessary in my opinion (just takes up space)

sweets91 wrote:

brinicolec wrote:For work experience like waitressing or a sales associate for retail, do I really need to include bullet points saying what I did? Especially if I've had the same position multiple times at different places?

Unnecessary in my opinion (just takes up space)

So you think just the title and the dates of employment would be good?

brinicolec wrote:

sweets91 wrote:

brinicolec wrote:For work experience like waitressing or a sales associate for retail, do I really need to include bullet points saying what I did? Especially if I've had the same position multiple times at different places?

Unnecessary in my opinion (just takes up space)

So you think just the title and the dates of employment would be good?

Yes.

agreed...I've seen plenty of effective resumes set up like that

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zeglo wrote:I think it's fine as long as you are consistent and do describe the it in at least one of the sections. I mean it does have redeeming skills like customer service, organization, etc.

Maybe if most of your experience is being a server etc. If you have other, more pertinent work experience that you will be describing with bullet points, I don't think you need to do so with the serving etc jobs. Depends on space on your resume and role those jobs play in your past.

I think it unnecessarily takes up space. Just write your title and dates worked.

No.

A. Nony Mouse wrote:

zeglo wrote:I think it's fine as long as you are consistent and do describe the it in at least one of the sections. I mean it does have redeeming skills like customer service, organization, etc.

Maybe if most of your experience is being a server etc. If you have other, more pertinent work experience that you will be describing with bullet points, I don't think you need to do so with the serving etc jobs. Depends on space on your resume and role those jobs play in your past.

Further, if your resume is already two pages, is it necessary to include these jobs at all?

lula43 wrote:

A. Nony Mouse wrote:

zeglo wrote:I think it's fine as long as you are consistent and do describe the it in at least one of the sections. I mean it does have redeeming skills like customer service, organization, etc.

Maybe if most of your experience is being a server etc. If you have other, more pertinent work experience that you will be describing with bullet points, I don't think you need to do so with the serving etc jobs. Depends on space on your resume and role those jobs play in your past.

Further, if your resume is already two pages, is it necessary to include these jobs at all?

Some do want every single job IIRC.

34iplaw wrote:

lula43 wrote:

A. Nony Mouse wrote:

zeglo wrote:I think it's fine as long as you are consistent and do describe the it in at least one of the sections. I mean it does have redeeming skills like customer service, organization, etc.

Maybe if most of your experience is being a server etc. If you have other, more pertinent work experience that you will be describing with bullet points, I don't think you need to do so with the serving etc jobs. Depends on space on your resume and role those jobs play in your past.

Further, if your resume is already two pages, is it necessary to include these jobs at all?

Some do want every single job IIRC.

There's a separate work history section for that. Resumes should be one page and highlight your most relevant experience.

It's fine to have a resume for applying to law schools that's more than one page. It's not the same document as a work resume. The exception being if the school gives you a page limit, of course. It's also not generally necessary to go over a page, but again, you can.

cavalier1138 wrote:

34iplaw wrote:

lula43 wrote:

A. Nony Mouse wrote:

zeglo wrote:I think it's fine as long as you are consistent and do describe the it in at least one of the sections. I mean it does have redeeming skills like customer service, organization, etc.

Maybe if most of your experience is being a server etc. If you have other, more pertinent work experience that you will be describing with bullet points, I don't think you need to do so with the serving etc jobs. Depends on space on your resume and role those jobs play in your past.

Further, if your resume is already two pages, is it necessary to include these jobs at all?

Some do want every single job IIRC.

There's a separate work history section for that. Resumes should be one page and highlight your most relevant experience.

Ah - understood. Appreciated. I mean, I understand that for normal resumes, but I wasn't sure that it was different for the ones submitted to law school.