My daughter got a job as a phonathon worker for the college, and she hates it. She’s only been there for a week, but she says the pressure to get a certain amount of money and the horrible attitudes of the people she calls is too much. She wants to quit, but she’s afraid of how this will look on her resume. Before she worked another student job as a freshman first semester, but the hours were so few that she quit. She was there for a month.
She found a job that she really wants, but she’s afraid to quit her current job for it because she doesn’t know how it will reflect on her resume. Should she be concerned?
No. Also, I’ll bet your daughter’s lack of enthusiasm for her job (which, by the way, I share; I hate calling people on the phone and I hate asking for money) is somewhat apparent to her employer. I’m sure there are students who like doing stuff like that or at least don’t mind it, and her leaving gives someone else an opportunity.
My daughter worked for one semester at the call center at her school. It was one of the highest paying jobs on campus…plus theynalsomgave a bonus if you got over a certain amount in donations. And the shifts were three or fount hours but could be any time practically so scheduling was easy peasy.
She liked talking to the alums…and sure, she got hung up on a lot.
You can leave th job now…with not one bit of guilt. There is a LOT of turnover at the call centers.
Why would you even put a college job you had for a week on your resume? She can go ahead and quit and pretend like it never happened and nobody will be the wiser.
It’s not the sort of job that goes on a resume, anyway. Later in college or summers, she can try for work more related to future interests or that shows those skills.
A one week job doesn’t have to go on a resume or a job history - I (as an adult who was mostly a stay at home mom) had a part-time job for about a month and realized it was not right for me - have never looked back. Haven’t put it on any resume or job history and to be quite honest, don’t even remember the name of the company (it was a small local place).
My daughter did the same thing last year. She lasted about 3 weeks. I had a similar job when I was in college and worked there all four years (Not calling all 4 years) so I encouraged it. But, she hated it. I don’t expect it will ever go on her resume, but I was sure she gave 2 weeks notice and left in a good way. I think that’s important.
It’s hard, because there aren’t a lot of jobs that open up on campus once school has started. For my D, she didn’t get another job until the next school year. (Can’t say she really tried.) She has been banking money in the Summers.
This year, she applied in the Summer when Fall jobs opened on the school website. She interviewed over the phone and got the job before she even went back to school.
In general, it’s always your choice what to put on your resume. The rare exception would be something like an executive/CEO where complete transparency is required even if they’d prefer to ignore that little incident with the company they drove into the ground. For regular grunts, the resume is where you put your best foot forward and ignore all the little stuff that doesn’t help to put you in a good light.
Leaving something off only starts to hurt when it looks like a long gap of unemployment, e.g. 6 months or more. Anything hourly (I.e. Not professional work) is definitely solely at your discretion.
It might be a little bit different in a closed environment like a campus, but I seriously doubt they’d check to see what previous campus jobs someone had. It’s a college environment; student employees come and go all the time for all kinds of reasons. It’s a transitory environment by nature.
-absolutely no need to put it on her resume
-go for the job she wants
-give proper notice but it’s likely she can term immediately for that type of job, they wont need her to “train” someone else
There is no need to put it on her real life resume but if she is applying for other on campus jobs, she might want to mention it. Just say that she realized fairly quickly that cold calling is not her forte and not within her comfort zone. It’s a good thing to be able to recognize so quickly what type of job is not for her. It takes a certain type of person or a certain level of financial desperation to be able to work in a call center. There’s a reason why it’s one of the higher paying jobs on campus.