Your résumé is not a job description.
If every bullet lists a responsibility, an employer still has to guess what changed because you were there.
Clearly Qualified Stories
Better advice for experience that crossed a border.
I write about making international experience clear, credible and easy for Canadian employers to understand. No generic job-search filler.
Your Canadian job search does not begin at zero.
The problem is rarely a lack of experience. The proof is buried inside unfamiliar job titles, companies and context. Here is how to translate it without shrinking it.
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Should you “Canadianize” your experience?
Keep the experience. Change the context. Canadian employers need a useful comparison, not a rewritten history.
From Lee
As publisher of Canadian Mining & Energy Magazine, I have spent years interviewing and writing for Canadian employers. These stories pass on what that taught me about how they read a résumé and what they look for.