Re:Best Places to network my way into the software industry?
by vailprogrammer on Friday July 06, 2018 @01:15PM
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Thanks for the reply! I’ve worked at several different restaurants here, but I’ll see about kind of merging all of that under just 1 restaurant on my resume. I also started and ran a service business for 3 months last summer, should I keep that on my resume? My concern is that hiring managers will ask why I didn’t start a tech business. But at the same time I learned tons of useful stuff from running all aspects of that business.
If you do it right, you can apply to entry-level job as "I am just like someone graduating from school this year, except I have evidence of <time management/ability to communicate/whatever else you did at hospitality work>, and so I'm worth talking to".
If you just omit the 4 years it just confuses people, and you're not taking advantage of skills you have acquired.