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Originally Posted by Hamlet How is not including something lying on your resume? If a person included every job that they had ever worked, however trivial, resume's would end up being ten pages over a lengthy career. Should a consultant give every customer they've ever done work for? If I went with job #2, I would leave job #1 off of the resume in the future with no qualms or worries.

Its dishonesty. I would understand if someone left off specifics of an early career job or PT jobs in college, so long as they explained in the resume that those things were left out intentionally, and explained when and if questioned about them.

A job, any job, left off within the past 10 years or so, however, would not be to my liking, and in my company (and others I've worked with) would be potentially dismissable offenses. A resume is your work history...you cannot be dishonest about that. Saying you were looking for a job, when in fact you were working, even if for a short while, would call into question the integrity of the candidate.

If you were a consultant, you would list your employer, or if self employed, you would list it that way. You may not necessarily list every client, but you would have to account for that time, honestly. If you were working as a temp, you would list the temp company(s) you worked for.

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