I had lunch with my friend Mary recently, and together we looked over her resume."You worked for Astor Graphics for six months in 2007," I said. "That's not a long time. Why don't you drop that out, show your 2005-2006 job followed by your current job, and leave out the short-term gig entirely?"
"Oh! So it's OK to lie on my resume?" asked Mary.
Rewriting your resume to nuke a short-term job from your history isn't lying -- it's editing! You can decide which jobs to include in your resumes, and which to delete and forget. The easiest-to-read resumes with the most obvious career "stories" are the ones most likely to get a hiring manager's attention. Extraneous information and potentially off-putting items like six-month gigs are baggage we can and should unload..
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