As you're not all as daft as you look, I'm hoping for an opinion or two on the 'Employment' section of my CV.
At the moment I'm studying part time for a PhD so I've got a few jobs that I can fit around my studies and aren't committed to certain hours for any of them. So my CV looks a bit like this (obviously set out nicely and with full descriptions of the jobs):
July 2010 - Present. Student Crew - a bit of office temping around uni, and helping out at open days
April 2010 - Present. Mentor - going into a local secondary school and getting the kids to think about uni
April 2010 - Present. Self employed copyeditor - do a bit for a friend, and I do his bookkeeping too
December 2007 - Present. Supply teacher/TA
I'm wondering whether having that many jobs looks bad on a CV, would it be better if a couple were to disappear? If so, which ones? The supply teacher one has to stay because otherwise I've got a massive gap between the job before that one and now, and the others all show experience of different environments so I'm a bit loathe to get rid of any, but from an employer's point of view it might make it look like I'm unreliable or can't hold down a job. I'm looking for something a bit more stable with more hours at the moment and jobs are a bit thin on the ground, so I need to get this right or I'm just throwing chances away.
At the moment I'm studying part time for a PhD so I've got a few jobs that I can fit around my studies and aren't committed to certain hours for any of them. So my CV looks a bit like this (obviously set out nicely and with full descriptions of the jobs):
July 2010 - Present. Student Crew - a bit of office temping around uni, and helping out at open days
April 2010 - Present. Mentor - going into a local secondary school and getting the kids to think about uni
April 2010 - Present. Self employed copyeditor - do a bit for a friend, and I do his bookkeeping too
December 2007 - Present. Supply teacher/TA
I'm wondering whether having that many jobs looks bad on a CV, would it be better if a couple were to disappear? If so, which ones? The supply teacher one has to stay because otherwise I've got a massive gap between the job before that one and now, and the others all show experience of different environments so I'm a bit loathe to get rid of any, but from an employer's point of view it might make it look like I'm unreliable or can't hold down a job. I'm looking for something a bit more stable with more hours at the moment and jobs are a bit thin on the ground, so I need to get this right or I'm just throwing chances away.