How to gear resume
This is a resume question, please bear with me: I have been working in various retail capacities all of my working life, and most recently in accounting. Here's my situation: I have an undergraduate degree that I obtained 9 years ago, in a field that is completely unrelated to retail (it's a degree with a long name but essentially it's a prep degree for psychotherapy). I am now interested in entering this field. Taking a while to come to the decision to do it is not out of the ordinary for the field, and is even looked upon as accrued "life experience" which is invaluable to a therapist. I am starting graduate school for psychotherapy in the fall part-time, and wish to work right now in some capacity at an assisted living facility for seniors - as I'm particularly interested in working with this segment of the population. I have a great resume for the previous work I've done, but as for something relating to my school, I don't. However, I am open to the type of position I would accept at the Senior facililty, just to be a part of it. I'm not really sure how to gear my resume - obviously I need to offer them something, and what I've got is the knowledge I've obtained in college, and my accounting/sales/customer service capability - not to mention my heartfelt interest in the people. I have been open in my application about planning to attend graduate school in the fall, simply because I would love to stay on as an employee after I graduate, as I will need the experience and they might even be able to offer me internship counseling hours in addition to work - I will need 600 before I graduate. Also, therapists need to work a minimum of 2 years, licensed and after graduation, for a company before they can comfortably go into private practice, should I desire to do so. I may even want to stay on for more years, if it works out. Any advice? Hi, Section of post does not conform with Monster TOU | |
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