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Employment / Prior non-theatre experience on resume
« on: Sep 14, 2008, 03:12 pm »
I would appreciate some input on whether or not to include my prior non-theatre experience on my resume. And if to include it, how to show it. For the past year, I've been working as an SM, ASM, light & sound board operator, and sound designer in local community theater. I've enrolled in a local college to get formal education in what I'm now calling my third career because I'm loving what I do.
Before this past year, I spent nearly 10 years in the accounting/finance field (I'm a CPA). Then I re-tooled myself and spent the next 18 years in the software engineering field from which I basically just walked away from last year. This experience has given me some great background for SM work: organization, leadership, project management, tenacity, etc. The skills I acquired in these careers really do carry forward to the SM role.
So the question is: do I put a small section on the resume regarding this experience? I want to somehow say that I have a great deal of management and leadership experience, but I don't know quite how to do it. Plus, my college degree is in business, not fine arts. How does this look to those of you looking at a resume?
Thanks in advance to those of you who reply.
Before this past year, I spent nearly 10 years in the accounting/finance field (I'm a CPA). Then I re-tooled myself and spent the next 18 years in the software engineering field from which I basically just walked away from last year. This experience has given me some great background for SM work: organization, leadership, project management, tenacity, etc. The skills I acquired in these careers really do carry forward to the SM role.
So the question is: do I put a small section on the resume regarding this experience? I want to somehow say that I have a great deal of management and leadership experience, but I don't know quite how to do it. Plus, my college degree is in business, not fine arts. How does this look to those of you looking at a resume?
Thanks in advance to those of you who reply.