While your CV may contain a lot of sections, it’s your experience summary that catches the eyes of your employer/interviewer the most.
These are some of the things your employer would notice in your experience summary.
1. 6 MONTHS OR LESS
Most employers expect that you stay with a company for at least a year before moving ship. It would interest the interviewer/employer to know why you left your previous job just after six months. Some employers are wary of an employee who would quit a job within months.
2. 1 YEAR
Within one year in a company, you must have learned a lot and garnered quite a level of experience. But what some employers are wary of is when you have so many one year experience on your CV. When an employer sees this, his first reaction would be that you are a job hopper who keeps hopping from one job to another. It’s up to you to use it to your advantage and explain how those jobs have helped shaped your career.
3. 1-3 YEARS
This shows stability and is a good amount of time to have spent with one company. However, what the employer would expect to see is how much you have garnered within that one to three years; have you just been stuck in one position or you have been met with different tasks, responsibilities and even a promotion?
4. 5 – 10 YEARS
If you have spent five to ten years in a company, it’s a huge number of time and it would definitely get the employer wondering why you want a switch or why you left the job. Your answer would help shape your employer’s knowledge about you and decide whether you would truly be a great acquisition for the company or just a man/woman with many years of experience.
In this situation, rather than seek for sympathy, you should seek to induce your employer to how passionate you would be to work with them and how the company’s mission excited you.
Your experience summary could say quite a lot about you and this is a part of your CV that catches every employer’s eye.
Jake