If I have management experience in another field (managed a bar for a long time) is it worth including on my resume or writing about in bios or intro emails? Or just keep it for interviews?

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Disagree that there’s not transferable skills. You have to think on your feet, multitask/prioritize, manage the customer experience, manage a team... But I would keep it low on the resume and yes, elaborate in person.

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As a creative we love that shit. You bring a another perspective and it shows you can handle shit, plus you probably have some cool stories. I would most definitely include it.

What ding dong said about it being a non-transferable skill is irrelevant. As along as you have actual AD skills and a site that proves it, go bananas on your background.

If non-transferable skills were always left off, a ton of us creatives who entered into this industry late (like me who didn’t get here until my 30s) would be fucked. That’s like telling someone who has design skills to leave their military career off because it’s not relevant. I call major bullshit on leaving your past experiences off your resume and intros (obviously use common sense. We don’t need to hear about your time working for McDonald’s, etc) but when it comes to management roles, ya damn right put that shit on there.

It’s not gonna get you a CD job but it shows background and a level of (hopeful) maturity

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Nope. Non-transferable skills

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Always include that you worked and worked hard and successfully (promotions, etc.)

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Agree with GAD1. Work experience is relevant. You have to work late nights and you deal with incoherent clients.

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If you describe it like GAD1, yes. Also, include any disaster stories where you used critical thinking to fix or get out of a jam. Stories told in fun and relevamt ways are much more engaging for a recruiter or HR to read. Also says a lot about you as a an actual human being.

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SC1 nailed it 👍

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I think restaurant experience, especially with tenure, is a great sign on any resume: it says you know how to show up, dig in, and handle shit. The restaurant business is like advertising in that it's brutal, fast-paced, demanding, and comfortable for a certain kind of lunatic, and unless you own the place, you don't get to be lazy. As Bourdain said, either you can make 500 omelettes in 3 hours like you said you could...or you can't. I would put your bar experience proudly in the resume and frame it in relevant terms: management of money and resources, solving problems on the spot (aka iterating), dealing with difficult customers (clients) and making them happy, etc etc. Keep in mind anyone who hasn't worked in a restaurant won't automatically recognize that, but you can explain it to them, the same way Kitchen Confidential did to the world at large.

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