Job switch: resume and interview [closed]

manpreet Best Answer 3 years ago

I graduated last year and I am currently working as a software developer, but in the past year I have hardly done any development work in this job and worked more towards documentation and unit testing the software. Owing to this I have decided to switch, and now as I work on my resume I realize that I don't have much development work to write on my resume.

My questions are:

1. Is it ok for a not-so-recent grad to focus his resume on academic work,(and online courses like edX etc.) than on the current job role?
2. When answering the interview question 'Why do you want to switch?', is it alright to mention the real reason or does that reflect badly as someone speaking negatively of my their current job?

I appreciate all your opinions.

manpreet 3 years ago

If you are under 5 years of working href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/experience">experience i would say it is acceptable to change position even if it has nothing in common with your current job. You are young, you need to try different task/company that suits you. It is normal.

From a recruiter point of view, it is better to have someone that change to a different position after 2/3 years rather than someone that keep the same kind of position of change every 6 month of company.

1) It is difficult to reply without reading your resume. But if you have already work href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/experience">experience, it is what you should mention first. Academics matters less, and online course (usually) doesn't matter at all for an HR. So in your resume you should mention both with equal importance i would say. ( if you already know what position you apply for,it can be a good thing to put in bold the keywords of your resume that appears in the job offer).

2) Yes, be honest; because most of people don't like to do href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/documentation">documentation anyway. But you don't need to speak of it negatively. You can say : "At the begining i was hired for a developper job but there was heavy worload on href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/documentation">documentation and the teamleader assigned me to it. It is something i don't see myself working on for 10 years so i prefer to look for a more challenging position in devolloping XYZ."