Resume Writing For Losers

So if you got laid off, should you put that job on your resume? If you dropped out of college and became a skier for two years, should that be included? If you started a business and it failed, should you put it on your resume?

Consider this REAL resume:

• missed job
• Defeated in the race for public office
• Started business and failed
• He spent time off work due to a nervous breakdown.
• Beaten in the race for public office again
• Beaten in the race for public office again
• missed job
• Beaten in the race for public office again
• Beaten in the race for public office again
• Beaten in the race for public office again

Whose is this resume?

The next entry on this resume is “President Elect of the United States.”

This is President Abraham Lincoln’s summary.

The point is this: your mistakes, losses, and failures do not prevent you from being qualified for the job you are seeking. In fact, experiences can make you stronger and more qualified. However, employers look for a successful track record on your resume.

Face the facts: the only sure way to never fail is to avoid trying anything. If mistakes and failures make losers, each one of us is a loser. The fact is that trying new things and overcoming obstacles is what has moved the human race forward.

If you’ve been laid off from a job, you may not want to include it on your resume. You could include the job and hope the employer doesn’t verify it. You could also include the job and be prepared to answer any questions the employer has. If you were fired for poor performance, for example, this could be an opportunity! As? Could you explain how this incident changed your life; that you were a mediocre employee who didn’t understand the profit side of your job and how it affected the company’s bottom line. Since then, you have read several business books and are now eager to make a serious working contribution to a company’s profits. Showing how you learn from experience and this type of attitude could eliminate a similarly qualified candidate and land you the job.

If you have a gap in your employment or college education history because you chose to take time off, you can fill in the blanks with a sentence or two about what you learned or accomplished during that time.

If you started a business that failed, you can list the business and the accomplishments that have given you skills beneficial to the employer. Some of the biggest companies in the world fail, and yet the people employed by them usually don’t spend the rest of their lives blaming themselves for misery.

We are not the situations we experience in our lives. We become who we are because of how we have allowed those situations to shape us.

Abraham Lincoln was obviously persistent and allowed his defeats to help him build resilience. Imagine how different our lives would be today if he had given up after any one of his many defeats.

Just remember that if we are all losers, we are also all winners. Any situation in your life does not label who you are. You label who you are. You know yourself better than anyone. You have the greatest power in the world to label yourself. So tag yourself a winner on your resume. So get ready to act like the winner you are at your interview.