Concerned about a work experience on my resume. Forum

[TheSimurgh]

I'm about to start mass mailing and I'm a bit concerned about my work experience.

The first two are good. I worked at a small firm this summer and during the school year I did volunteer work on behalf of the school.

As for my third experience, I worked as a cashier for a sandwich shop. I have a feeling recruiting people from large firms might look down on that experience. I'm not sure what to do. I also provided essay editing services while in undergrad, so I could legitimately say I was a private tutor. What do you guys think?

Thanks.

[Anonymous User]

You don't need to put all jobs, you should just put the relevant ones. I had three "real jobs" (2 yrs+) that I listed and left off other things like summer camps and research positions, short-term stuff during university.

[TheSimurgh]

That's all the work experience I have. Without it, my resume runs kind of short.

[Wahoowa18]

That's all the work experience I have. Without it, my resume runs kind of short.

Can't you just expand the bullet points under your two relevant positions so that it takes up more space? Doing so will also give you more space to describe your relevant experience and exclude the non-relevant experience. I've seen resumes before where under the "experience" section, people only list one job but list a lot of bullet points under it so that it takes up a lot of space. I'm sure you can also reach out to your school's office of career services for formatting advice.

[TheSimurgh]

I can expand on it for sure. I did it a lot of work this summer. I just thought the minimum was three areas of work experience. I'll go with two, thanks.

[Anonymous User]

Why would anyone look down on that work?

[stronitsing]

Why would anyone look down on that work?

they probably wouldn't. but it's atypical to put cashier positions on a resume when applying to biglaw.

as the poster above said, two positions are fine for a resume.

[zworykin]

I agree with previous posters who say two is fine, and that a cashier position isn't all that important to put on a biglaw resume. If, however, there is some valid reason for including it--say, to show that you worked full-time throughout undergrad, or something like that--you can always add it but don't bother fleshing it out with bullet points/responsibilities like the other, more relevant jobs. People reading the resume would understand both why it was there and why it was only a one-liner.

[Anonymous User]

FWIW, a hiring partner came to GULC and said he actually likes to see these things on a resume because it shows you understand how to service clients and can take a beating from them. But YMMV.

[BmoreOrLess]

Whoops, that was me.