Peter Newfield, President of Career-Resumes.com, explains how to best present job change after a short tenure on your resume and during an interview.
Q. “ Having recently started in a COO position, the company experienced an internal restructure and I moved into a VP position instead. Due to the uncertain future of the company I will be moving on after only 1 year. How do you suggest I explain this within my resume / CV and then at interview stage?”
A. "My suggestion in this situation is as follows:
List the company name and "flush left," adding the dates of employment i.e. 2008 - Present
Now list your positions as "COO - VP", without the break out of executive position dates
Next get into the job description and hopefully your accomplishments
That should solve the resume question. Now, in the interview:
Explain there was an reorganization midway through the assignment, without bad mouthing the company
Then you can insert the dates of the positions to the hiring manager and hopefully, the hiring manager will accept the scenario at face value
Make sure you speak with great confidence when describing this scenario.
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