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Employment / Civilian Resume?
« on: Apr 21, 2011, 01:18 am »
I'm at a point in my life where I'm seriously considering "retiring" from the whole stage management thing. I've settled down in my home town (which does not have a big theater scene), and am looking for work to start over. Problem is, I went to school for theater and have had very few non-theater jobs since I was a teenager. I need to send out some resumes, but am having a hard time figuring out how to format a "civilian" resume which would be easily understood by employers who have no knowledge of what "ASM" or "LB Op" means.
Another concern is how to convey several short contracts. It seems that all the examples of non-theater resumes I come across say things like "Independent Consultant, 2006-Present," while my jobs are, for example, working a Christmas show at the same theater several years in a row, with gigs elsewhere in between. I can't exactly say "Stage Manager at Such and Such Theater, 2007-Present," when I was only there two months out of the year, and was working at several different places during that time period.
Any advice/resume examples would be greatly appreciated!
Another concern is how to convey several short contracts. It seems that all the examples of non-theater resumes I come across say things like "Independent Consultant, 2006-Present," while my jobs are, for example, working a Christmas show at the same theater several years in a row, with gigs elsewhere in between. I can't exactly say "Stage Manager at Such and Such Theater, 2007-Present," when I was only there two months out of the year, and was working at several different places during that time period.
Any advice/resume examples would be greatly appreciated!