Job advice: How do I pimp my (boring) CV?

Katrin Wilkens (45) studied rhetoric and worked as a trainer in further education. Since 2000 she writes as a freelance journalist and others. for mirror, time, FA and Nido. What she is really good at: portraying important and less important personalities, that they howl with happiness. Or with anger. Combine. To put things in a nutshell. To look into people. Discover special features. With her agency "i.do" (which is Japanese and means "change", "journey"), the mother of three advises women on their return - and promises: "In the end you have one answer: the tailor-made job."

Sabine T. asks, "What do I have to do to make my CV more exciting?"

"After studying business administration and then working in one and the same machine supplier business for seven years, I had a child.

Now the child break is over for me, and I could get back in again. But sometimes I think my resume reads way too boring.

There are many crazy opportunities for further education: Feel-Good-Manger, foundation manager or intercultural mediator ... What do I have to do to upgrade my curriculum vitae a bit? "

Sabine T. from Reutlingen

Dear Mrs. T.,

what serves them because the upgrade of your CV? Fies asked: In order to gain new horizons - or rather, to keep up in the general job-pitcher pitch?

No, that's not what it means. But many mothers who have experienced the monotony of afternoons on the playground just want one thing: crazy, crazy, crazy.

But are you crazy too? Do you want to be that? And how many jobs for the Feel-Good-Manager? are currently being awarded? Do you fit into the structure of a foundation or does it sound? on a warm summer party evening just cooler than business administration?

The question that you should ask yourself before completing additional training is: Do you want to be the only tomato among loud onions? (the stout business woman in the hip advertising agency) or is it enough for you to be an originally grown among other nightshade plants, so: a merry business woman, respected and appreciated by the other mechanical engineers? You have little posing pressure on machine suppliers and may be living a little bit next to your character in creative industries.

You could also upgrade your CV by an unusual honorary post or by an exceptional position: many study law, but legal advice on the satire magazine? Titanic? makes only one woman. See if a circus does not need a business administrator, or ask for a television or at the theater.

But also ask yourself if the collection of creatives, neurotics and structural opponents (exaggerated!) Is not going to get you started. Obviously you did not feel uncomfortable among many mechanical engineers, otherwise you would not have stayed there for seven years, right?

Crazy professions have the advantage that there is always something to tell about them. But they have the disadvantage that they often collapse souffléartig enough, if you ask more closely. And you're probably more exotic in your consistency than any part-time blogger IT hipster crowd funding expert put together.

Enjoy your stability. And play it out.

Katrin Wilkens, i.do.

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