Agradecemos mucho tu tiempo para leernos y te pedimos nos ayudes a compartir con amigos y colegas que les pueda interesar para seguir creciendo la comunidad! Ya vamos para los 300 y vamos creciendo cada día. Mi meta es 1000 antes del fin del año. Puedes ayudarme a compartirlo?
Hoy empezamos con un tweet que creó la controversia en el mundo de Recruiting Twitter.
“No tengas un CV con trabajos con poca duración”. Es un “red flag” 🚩, una de las razones más comunes para rechazarte al momento de la revisión del CV, antes de hablar contigo.
Muchos fueron ofendidos. “Que pasa si estuviera en un trabajo horrible? Con un jefe abusivo?” Son objeciones totalmente razonables, y nadie merece quedarse en un trabajo nefasto solo para tener una experiencia suficientemente larga en el curriculum.
La verdad es que al tweet le falta matiz, pero no es falso. Los reclutadores normalmente dan 2 minutos para revisar tu CV. No van a tener el tiempo para entender el porqué de cada trabajo. Y la verdad es que si los últimos 4 trabajos que tuviste fueron de 8 meses o menos, es bastante probable que el quinto será igual.
¡Pero no te des por vencido! Hay varias cosas que puedes hacer para mejorar tu CV y conseguir la entrevista a pesar de experiencias cortas.
Have a few long stints (could be professional or not)
As a recruiter, I want to see some level of commitment, to something. Have you stayed at anything for over 2 years? If so, good. It could be an older job but also a non-profit position. Just something that you have stuck with.
Either stay for 3 months or stay for 18 months
Of course some jobs end up being nightmares. It’s hard to know before you start, and you may suddenly realize that you made a bad bad decision. However, the best you can do is quit early. That will show that you quickly evaluated the situation and took decisive action - both great qualities. What is “early”? About 3 months. That is usually enough time for a horrible boss to show his/her true colors.
Make sure to emphasize if its a contract job or consulting job
This is especially important for all the engineers in LatAm who often work in shorter stint contract jobs. Make sure you write (contract) or (consulting) for each job. That helps contextualize jobs that may have lasted for 7 months or something short.
If you worked for different clients in the same consulting firm, make sure that is clear.
You can always explain why you left in your resume
Nothing is stopping you from explaining why you are leaving your company. How about putting a bullet point called “Reason for Leaving”? That would be very helpful.
Here are some ideas -
Company ran out of money
Job moved to different city
Division closed
I moved to different city for personal reasons
Company pivoted
Talk to an agency recruiter - they are your friend here.
3rd party recruiters have slightly different incentives than in-house recruiters. We are interested in figuring out if you are placeable at a company. Maybe your jumpiness is hiding a different story? An agency recruiter won’t reject you but rather will ask you to change your resume in order to better present yourself.
Muchos de ustedes me preguntaron de cómo “gringificar” el nombre de tu universidad, para evitar escribir “The Institute Technologic and of Superior Studies of the Occident” 🤨🤨
Entonces hemos creado una lista puedes verlo aquí
Hay para los cuates de México, los parceros de Colombia, y los pibes Argentinos 🇦🇷.
Importante: son sugerencias, no obligaciones. Si prefieres usar el nombre en español, hazlo! Pero espero que te den unas ideas para traducir el nombre sin que un reclutador gringo dice WTF.
La semana proxima estare en Italia🍝🍷🍕 para unas vacaciones, entonces no habrá sesiones de “gringificacion” de CV. Sorry!
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Peace and Jobs,
Georges