Does switching jobs while on campus look bad?

anomander
Sat, 12 Nov 2016 18:22:06 +0000

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.