How do I put on my resume that I'm pulling in 90+ hours/week at my current job
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You don't. If you're working 90+ hours/week you're probably doing some interesting/useful stuff in there. Put THAT on your resume.
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accountants do 70/wk
I wake up at 6am and get home around 9-10pm. You're only considering Audit... in corporate recovery I'm basically running a multi-million dollar company until we find a potential buyer (and hire a new CEO).
Anyway, I just wanted to highlight that I can burn the midnight oil, which was what M&I.com was saying you have to prove. Anyone else have any suggestions to show this on the resume?
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People typically don't measure their work week based on when they wake up and arrive at home. I understand your reasoning re: wanting to put this on your resume, but I worry that you're trying a bit too hard. Exaggerating can make you seem desperate, and that's definitely not how you want to come off.
1) I would never repeat this line in an interview. 2) If this is true, you don't need to worry about reporting how many hours you work in a week. You have a job locked up already.
I would say it's something you would state more in a cover letter than a resume.
Thats something you need to mention in an interview/cover letter etc. There is really no way, that I can think of, for you to put that in the actual body of your resume without it looking like "See! I work a lot too! Accountants work really hard I promise!"
Stick with the projects that you work on. Since you work that much, you probably have incredible details to share about your projects. They will figure out that you work a lot.
A bit of advice. I haven't read a cover letter in years, and I doubt anyone else I work with has, either. You need a to have a cover letter, becuase someone does for sure and they will notice if you don't have one.
But never assume the manager reads it. Always include the same info on the resume.
i thought the same thing until I, somewhat inebriated, sent a 2 line cover letter in an online app that basically said, "I will work harder than anyone else you've interviewed." or something like that. I got a call the next day and the VP was like "I like your cover letter, I'm keeping it on my desk for entertainment. You got balls kid."
Nice!
If I was scanning over applications I would definitely have singled you out for a first round. Well done.
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