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The trick with finding work here finally clicked for me
I spent six months after arriving in Portland sending out resumes with my old country's job titles and got zero callbacks. A guy at the refugee center told me to change everything to match local job descriptions, even if it felt dishonest. I rewrote my IT support experience as 'customer service and troubleshooting' and had three interviews within two weeks. Has anyone else felt weird about translating your experience into something that fits here?
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aaron8969d ago
Yeah, that "dishonest" part hits hard. @hannaho62, I felt the same way when I had to list my old mechanic training as "equipment maintenance" for a factory job here. It still bugs me sometimes but the local system just works different.
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