In sample resumes you always have things like

-Performed follow up calls with 10,000 local and international customers and negotiated contractss……etcc
( i made that up)

In other words
a) Impressive and has numbers b) it shows how it helped the company

But what if your job was a short 3 week job where all you did was Filing, Faxing, and mailing a few things.. Nothing in the 1000′s.. nothing that really made much of a difference.

Even resume books say you should use Action words and tell how what yu did made a difference and helped the company.

What am i supposed to do when all i did was file and faxed 10 documents. No wonder i’m not getting jobs. It’s not impressive.

I have 3 job experiences in my resume, the most recent 2 are good enough because i was there for 8 moths and 1 1/2 years. But that other one was just 3 weeks and what i did is not impressive.

Also even my other jobs were basic filing and scanning. there’s nothing impressive with what i did.

Example:
• Organized thousands of documents required by personnel in the administrative department. ( This is what i put for one job experience)

That was just repetitive simple task but it’s not really the same as someone who would say “I created a Mathematical Forecasting system using C++ for weather reports”

So how do i make a Simple job experience be impressive when all i did was faxing and filing and organizing and it wasnt much.

I’m 29 male.
To coo..

i’m not a recent grad. I’m 29 , graduated in 2003. and I’ve never had long term great jobs. Mostly simple jobs

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