Journey In Unemployment Land | 25
Post 25: 3/10/205
2025-03-10 20:06:28
🗓️Month 9, week 4 into my #JourneyInUnemploymentLand and I'm annoyed by bad advice.
✖️Take your master’s degree off your resume because people will think you’re a flight risk.
✖️Make your resume one page because recruiters are too busy to read more than that.
✖️Lie about how long you were at a company because no one will call to verify your work history.
✖️Don’t create a logo for yourself; it will make you look more like a business than a person.
✖️A resume doesn’t need percentages and measurements because your work is too difficult to estimate.
✖️Switch industries to what’s in demand and give up on this writing thing.
🥱I could go on, but I won’t. Here’s the thing, colleagues: all of this advice is thinly veiled attempts to get me to minimize myself. While these people are well-meaning, they are projecting their insecurities and prejudices on me. They want to see me—a black woman in the prime of her career—minimize myself to fit the mold of what they think I should be: perpetually in survival mode and begging to be noticed.
🫶🏿That’s not my goal nor is this my reality. I am highly educated, so I should tell an employer that. I won’t lie to get a job. I won’t minimize the impact I’ve made on an organization. I won’t give up on my dreams or misrepresent myself in an industry that demands that I stand on my branding.
👀What bad advice have you been given? Where do you think that bad advice is coming from?