Get More Employment Interviews: If Resumes Could Talk
How to Tell the Real Story, As If We Could Ever Get Anybody to Read It All
Now that I am over 65, and retired from the job of seeking gainful employment, it has dawned on me that most people who might have read any of my resumes and job applications, could not have appreciated the experiences I actually had.
What follows, if resumes could be written as memoirs, is an excerpt from mine.
In 1992, I got my MS in Management from Antioch University. This was a degree in the people side of management. A change agent’s dream. This might seem an odd leap, but I was driven.
I had spent six years bucking packages, wearing a brown polyester uniform, and hoping in and out of truck-looking “package cars” for United Parcel Service before grad school. My customers knew me as Elly UPS, no relation whatsoever to Alley Oop!
I liked it because something new happened every single day. I got to know who lived where, which businesses did what, and who was related to whom in that third generation alcoholic, former machine tool town situated between the Connecticut River and Unity New Hampshire. Just north of Old Fort #4. And yet, every day on my industrial route in Claremont was pretty much the same. It was the rules and…
