Leaving out months on CV
My job history is a bit spotty. Is it acceptable to change
July 2022-May 2024
December 2021-June 2022
Nov 2020-Nov 2021
May 2020-September 2020)
May 2019-March 2020
November 2018-February 2019
into
2022-2024
2021-2022
2020-2021
2019-2020
2018-2019
?
July 2022-May 2024
December 2021-June 2022
Nov 2020-Nov 2021
May 2020-September 2020)
May 2019-March 2020
November 2018-February 2019
into
2022-2024
2021-2022
2020-2021
2019-2020
2018-2019
?
Reply 1
To be honest I probably wouldn’t bother. There’s no big gaps that would cause questions, so for the sake of completeness I’d include the months, (and in the case of the 2020 entry, it’d probably be more misleading to present it the second way).
Reply 2
JML1995
OP
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Original post
by Admit-OneTo be honest I probably wouldn’t bother. There’s no big gaps that would cause questions, so for the sake of completeness I’d include the months, (and in the case of the 2020 entry, it’d probably be more misleading to present it the second way).
Thanks for the feedback, I'll just leave it then. Maybe I'm thinking the gaps look worse than they are.
Regarding the 2020 job I should've expanded on that a bit - that one and the Nov 20 to Nov 21 were different jobs, but for the same public sector organisation doing the same role, via 2 different subcontracting companies. So I was going to combine them into one heading listed as Public Sector Organisation (via agency)? Although that won't work with months included
Reply 3
Original post
by JML1995Thanks for the feedback, I'll just leave it then. Maybe I'm thinking the gaps look worse than they are.
Regarding the 2020 job I should've expanded on that a bit - that one and the Nov 20 to Nov 21 were different jobs, but for the same public sector organisation doing the same role, via 2 different subcontracting companies. So I was going to combine them into one heading listed as Public Sector Organisation (via agency)? Although that won't work with months included
Regarding the 2020 job I should've expanded on that a bit - that one and the Nov 20 to Nov 21 were different jobs, but for the same public sector organisation doing the same role, via 2 different subcontracting companies. So I was going to combine them into one heading listed as Public Sector Organisation (via agency)? Although that won't work with months included
Change Months to 3 letters and Years to 2 digits.
You can remove months if your tie period in the job was more or less a year or two years, but you have to be careful that by removing the months, you aren't giving a false impression. So for example your Nov18-Feb19 role is only 3 months, so you can't really put 2018-19 where it appears to be 2 years long. however, it is tidier to be consistent throughout, so it seems like you need to leave months in.
For the double job, just give the outside dates and both job titles eg
Nov 20 - Nov21 Junior Bod/Slightly Senior Bod, Government Office, Whitehall
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