Journey In Unemployment Land | 25
Post 25: 3/10/205
2025-03-10 20:06:28
đď¸Month 9, week 4 into my #JourneyInUnemploymentLand and I'm annoyed by bad advice.
âď¸Take your masterâs degree off your resume because people will think youâre a flight risk.
âď¸Make your resume one page because recruiters are too busy to read more than that.
âď¸Lie about how long you were at a company because no one will call to verify your work history.
âď¸Donât create a logo for yourself; it will make you look more like a business than a person.
âď¸A resume doesnât need percentages and measurements because your work is too difficult to estimate.
âď¸Switch industries to whatâs in demand and give up on this writing thing.
đĽąI could go on, but I wonât. Hereâs 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 meâa black woman in the prime of her careerâminimize myself to fit the mold of what they think I should be: perpetually in survival mode and begging to be noticed.
đŤśđżThatâs not my goal nor is this my reality. I am highly educated, so I should tell an employer that. I wonât lie to get a job. I wonât minimize the impact Iâve made on an organization. I wonât give up on my dreams or misrepresent myself in an industry that demands that I stand on my branding.
đWhat bad advice have you been given? Where do you think that bad advice is coming from?