How to List Stay-at-Home Mom on a Resume
While 59.2 percent of women ages 16 years and older are in the labor force, millions of others stay home and care for their families full-time. These women make a valuable contribution but may feel later in life, when they wish to return to the workplace, that their experiences as stay-at-home moms make updating their resumes difficult. However, it isn't especially hard for a woman to list her experience as a stay-at-home mom on her resume, and she may well find that employers value her experience.
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List skills required for the job you are applying for, including both general and specific skills that employers might value for that job.. List skills such as working with people, managing a task from start to finish and training others.
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List any skills you have acquired, including those you might have picked up as a stay-at-home mom. )
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Compare the lists and match the list of your abilities with the abilities an employer wants. Think of ways to characterize your abilities in terms that will appeal to an employer. Remember that employers often look for people with strong relationship and management skills.
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Use appropriate terminology to describe your experience in terms that will appeal to an employer. Write "experience managing small children for extended periods" rather than "looked after kids." Write "performed ad-hoc repairs to equipment as needed" rather than "fixed the garbage disposal."
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Include any volunteer work relevant to the job you want, including work for the PTA, the Rotary Club or any other organization. Include specific details of this work that might apply, such as whether you managed the budget of an organization or wrote its newsletter.
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