Think temporary employment is a liability when you’re creating your resume? Think again! If you know how to spin temporary jobs on your resume, you’ll find employers who are anxious to bring you on board. It’s all in how you write it, and when you build your resume with temporary jobs, you’ve got an opportunity to let your experience shine.

Rethink the Format

The standard resume format is heavy on job history, but light on actual job skills experience. Change up your format to highlight your experience on your resume if you want employers to pay attention to what you can do for them. Comb through resume templates until you find one that puts your job skills front and center.

Make the Objective the Object

Everyone who gives advice on writing resumes has a different take on the controversial “objective” resume format. Love it or hate it, if your experience is mostly in temporary employment, a resume that has an objective stated upfront is the one that can make you shine. Why create a resume that states an objective? While that objective is ostensibly the place where you tell what sort of job you are looking for, it also gives you a great platform for telling employers what you can do in the guise of you stating your employment objectives.

Tailor the Resume to the Job

It’s old advice, but like all old refrains, it still rings true: You should tweak your resume for every job you apply for. Retooling your resume for each new job not only keeps you fresh, it gives you the opportunity to make the resume fit the job. That is never more important than when your resume is heavy on temporary employment. You want employers to notice your skills rather than where they were earned, so take care to match the skills you list on your resume to those presented in the job description.

Talk to Temporary Employment Experts

The best way to overcome your lack of permanent work experience when writing your resume is by submitting it to people who are familiar with the high-quality skills temporary employees bring to the workplace. Staffing Partners’ recruitment experts can help you tweak your resume with temporary employment opportunities that build the skills you have or help you develop new skills. They can also help you to find temp-to-hire jobs that allow you to transition to permanent employment. Call Staffing Partners — your resume will thank you!