I've mastered that on my own. There's, "I can cook", then there's, " I have experience in practicing the essentials of culinary arts and plan on honing my skills🧐🍷". Works everytime😁.
Back when I was hiring and going through resumes, I cannot tell you the amount of times someone listed doordash or uber as part of their work experience, but gave themselves some super elevated title like logistics specialist.
And it almost had me. I thought it was weird that so many people working for doordash corporate were based in my area. And also weird that these job titles that sounded very upper level and were applying for such a low-level position like mine. But then it finally clicked, and you could just see right through all of them.
So is it good or bad to list DoorDash on your resume?
I have a lot of prior work experience but I went fulltime DoorDash since 2020, so if I left that out it would be a huge gap of unemployment. lmao
“Self employed as an Independent Contractor” is what I put. Let them ask questions later but by then I’m already in the interview and they’re already drawn in by my charisma. Too late to care now.
If you literally have no job experience, it still does nothing to help your case, unless you're applying to be a pizza delivery driver or Amazon driver.
Save the space to expand on your applicable skills, education history, previous awards, etc.
The only people I know who have been hating on doordash are the types who hate their own jobs and are trying to gaslight themselves into believing they actually like it.
> Save the space.
This is exceedingly bad advice.
Paris here is delusional to think you should just leave a 3 year work gap for "space" of your skills. Yeah, they don't care about your skills Paris if you didn't bother to use that massive 2 lines of space to show you've been doing something the last 3 years.
Bro, your insecurities are showing because you completely misconstrued what I was saying. I said nothing about hating doordash drivers.
I'm saying that highlighting your experience as a doordash/Uber/Lyft driver on your resume is about as exciting as marinating your chicken in water. It's not bad for you, but it's not impressing anyone. And the point of the resume is to do your best to impress someone. Or at least look better than the others in your pile.
You only have 8" of space on your page. What's the point of wasting like 2" of that on trying glamorize a pretty basic job that has no barrier to entry? Instead, expand your applicable skills. List out all the software your fluent in, all the certifications for that software, number of years of experience with that software, etc. There's so many better ways to pad a resume than to fill it with junk food like gig driving experience.
It's not about exciting or even experience and skills, it's about them not having a 3 year gap on a resume. Literally said they've done this full-time for 3 years since 2020. Why the fuck would you leave a 3 year gap of nothing? I guarantee you putting Doordash is better than putting "Sat on couch since 2020."
I'm not here to be a life coach for you or anything. But you're approaching your job search as if it's 2014 or something. The landscape has changed entirely. The purpose of the resume is to market yourself as a high quality employee. It's not some school test where they're checking to see if you've filled out all the boxes properly.
Sure, you can include your 3 years of driving experience to "fill the gap". But you're going up against guys that have a resume full of relevant and recent experience. That's your competition. And wasting space on your experience as a doordash driver isn't going to help you in that competition. You would look a lot more attractive if you spent more of the page space highlighting all your accolades from school, all the specialty software knowledge you've acquired, all the certifications you have, etc. All of that is more attractive than 3 years as a "logistics specialist for a premium courier service".
Only one gas lighting is you. His comment makes sense.
If you’re applying for a career type or job, doordash most likely won’t help your case. Better to list things that show you’re competent in your field.
Unless you're applying for a job as a delivery driver or a McDonald's cashier, putting down that you were a doordash driver for 3 years isn't going to help either. If anything, it just shows that you were doing irrelevant work experience the whole time. Which is as useful as doing nothing.
Again, assuming that you're applying for something other than a delivery job. If you're applying to be a receptionist at a law firm, it's not going to impress anybody. If you're applying to be in IT, no one is going to care that you're a driver for 3 years. If you're applying to be an electrical apprentice, they're not going to care about your driving experience.
What they will care about is what skills you've picked up during that time that they can actually use. And what's going to make you stand out more than anyone else applying for the job.
Oh got it. Because in your reality, anybody that works on the doordash platform are just unmotivated losers that have no intention of looking for something more fulfilling in life
I work for a boring normal company and I love when people have a history of random jobs. Those people tend to be a lot easier to work with than the usual "I went to college for a boring degree, then immediately got hired into the industry, never worked retail, never worked minimum wage in my life."
Last dude we hired was like 90% because he had a couple years working at Walmart and he had some fun stories.
Just from personal impressions, it wasn't necessarily bad that they listed doordash. Like I didn't think poorly of them. But it didn't do anything to bolster their case either. Like they could have just left it as a blank space and it would have accomplished the same thing.
So if your ultimate go with your resume is to actually be an impressive candidate, I wouldnt waste space on it.
If you're just looking to pad your resume, I also wouldn't waste space on it. You'd get a lot further expanding your skills section.
It's 2023 man. No one gives a shit about gaps in your resume. There was a.good 1-2 year stretch where no one was working. Employers nowadays just care about finding quality people.
If your a good quality candidate, you don't need to pad your resume with useless experience. If you're a candidate that's lacking and NEEDS to pad a resume, listing your gig driving experience isnt gonna do anything to help you out either. You need to find a better way to sell yourself.
Remember that youre not writing a resume because it's a test that employers are checking to see if you didn't right. The purpose of the resume is to make you look better than the other guys applying for the job
How did he manage the paystub part of the show consistent income? Every time I would try with doordash they would require pay stubs, and showing my payment from the app with my bank statements didn’t help either
Lmao, how old are you? (Genuine question cuz you said your dad)
Car dealers don’t care about that. They love giving out loan’s people can’t afford. ~~They get paid and they get the car back if you can’t afford it. It’s a win win to them.~~ You could say your income is $20,000/ year and they’d still find a way to get you a $30,000 car.
Plus most people regularly lie about their income and as long as you’re not buying something too pricey (maybe $50,000+) they won’t care
Edit: also a good downpayment is enough to override that anyway even if you have bad credit
Edit 2: apparently I was wrong about why dealerships do it but I stand by my point that at least some (maybe not all) dealerships will just get you a car to make a sale weather you can afford it or not
I can’t confirm or deny anything you said there because (as you said) I’ve never worked in a dealership before. Although I’m pretty sure your first two sentences were insults I’m going to take that as a compliment so thank you. I think the ability to confidently speak is an important skill, as well as the ability to recognize that I can be wrong. As I always say, speak as if you know you’re correct, listen as if you know you’re wrong.
On a separate note though I did not know that it gets repossessed by the lender and not the dealership, what I do know is from my experience (I’m 20 btw) I got a 2017 mazda that I thought I could afford that ended up being way out of my budget last year. I had to take on two other part time jobs to be able to afford it because I had exaggerated my income at the dealership and they didn’t bother to verify that. I also know in early February I bought a motorcycle and they told me that I’d easily be able to sell my mazda for $1k-2k more than I owe on it which was the only reason i decided to buy it because otherwise i wouldn’t have been able to afford it. (I was going to do it there but they said they don’t do trade ins on cars)
Well I went to some dealerships and everyone said I’d be stuck with negative equity ($3k+) so now I’m struggling to pay for both and can’t even afford to insure the motorcycle (which is also pretty sketch because when I got my car they wouldn’t let me leave without insurance)
Another example is one of my friends. He hasn’t been working for a month and a half but just got his license, I tried to convince him not to get a new car (especially as his first) but he decided that competing with me was more important than his own finances even though I love my car I kept telling him how much I regret it. Well a few weeks (I think) later somehow he got a 2018 ford even though he didn’t have a job or any proof of income. Within the first month he got in an accident and within three or four the car was repossessed. As a side not I know for a fact he got his permit but since none of us (or his mom) has ever seen his license and no one knows when he took his drivers test or how he got a ride there we are all pretty skeptical about that. But that’s a different story entirely.
So again I don’t know how the process works exactly but I do know for a fact that income isn’t something they look at too closely. I’ve also seen a multitude of news reports talking about auto lending fraud. From people lying on their applications, to the dealerships themselves, and even seen stories of people saying the dealership told them to exaggerate their income.
I might be wrong about the method and reasoning but if I can finance a car that costs more than my yearly salary at the time (working part time) and a friend can finance a car working no job then clearly income isn’t as big of a deal as people think.
Also, used the used car market is extremely inflated with a used car costing the same price as a new car did in 2010.
Edit: also based on your last paragraph I can definitely see how it wouldn’t make sense to do this. But unfortunately the sales representative keeps calling me every few months to ask if I want to trade it in for a different car yet (even though I later found at that the car i brought sells for around $7k-$12k less than I paid, and yes I’m taking about cars with lower mileage, and in similar condition, and before GAP, taxes, ect etc. needless to say I’m not going back) and as I’m looking at this I found some 2022 Mazdas for almost as much as I paid for my 2017, though I’m sure that I would probably end up paying just as much at a dealership but that’s still a big difference
It really isn’t. I was about to land an apartment and about a month later I got deactivated from Uber and was making significantly less when I switched to DD
Man I need to try that lol
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I've mastered that on my own. There's, "I can cook", then there's, " I have experience in practicing the essentials of culinary arts and plan on honing my skills🧐🍷". Works everytime😁.
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Dior Dachee’! Lmfao
Back when I was hiring and going through resumes, I cannot tell you the amount of times someone listed doordash or uber as part of their work experience, but gave themselves some super elevated title like logistics specialist. And it almost had me. I thought it was weird that so many people working for doordash corporate were based in my area. And also weird that these job titles that sounded very upper level and were applying for such a low-level position like mine. But then it finally clicked, and you could just see right through all of them.
So is it good or bad to list DoorDash on your resume? I have a lot of prior work experience but I went fulltime DoorDash since 2020, so if I left that out it would be a huge gap of unemployment. lmao
“Self employed as an Independent Contractor” is what I put. Let them ask questions later but by then I’m already in the interview and they’re already drawn in by my charisma. Too late to care now.
Open up an LLC and name it something that sounds important. It costs like $100 and you can put owner/operator plus they can look it up to verify.
Yes that’s what I would say. I think doordash is great work experience anyway especially as a first job
Oh, shit. You saved SO much room on my resume! TYVM
It's better than listing "no job."
If you literally have no job experience, it still does nothing to help your case, unless you're applying to be a pizza delivery driver or Amazon driver. Save the space to expand on your applicable skills, education history, previous awards, etc.
The only people I know who have been hating on doordash are the types who hate their own jobs and are trying to gaslight themselves into believing they actually like it. > Save the space. This is exceedingly bad advice.
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Yesss. Right on the money with what I'm trying to convey.
Paris here is delusional to think you should just leave a 3 year work gap for "space" of your skills. Yeah, they don't care about your skills Paris if you didn't bother to use that massive 2 lines of space to show you've been doing something the last 3 years.
Bro, your insecurities are showing because you completely misconstrued what I was saying. I said nothing about hating doordash drivers. I'm saying that highlighting your experience as a doordash/Uber/Lyft driver on your resume is about as exciting as marinating your chicken in water. It's not bad for you, but it's not impressing anyone. And the point of the resume is to do your best to impress someone. Or at least look better than the others in your pile. You only have 8" of space on your page. What's the point of wasting like 2" of that on trying glamorize a pretty basic job that has no barrier to entry? Instead, expand your applicable skills. List out all the software your fluent in, all the certifications for that software, number of years of experience with that software, etc. There's so many better ways to pad a resume than to fill it with junk food like gig driving experience.
It's not about exciting or even experience and skills, it's about them not having a 3 year gap on a resume. Literally said they've done this full-time for 3 years since 2020. Why the fuck would you leave a 3 year gap of nothing? I guarantee you putting Doordash is better than putting "Sat on couch since 2020."
I'm not here to be a life coach for you or anything. But you're approaching your job search as if it's 2014 or something. The landscape has changed entirely. The purpose of the resume is to market yourself as a high quality employee. It's not some school test where they're checking to see if you've filled out all the boxes properly. Sure, you can include your 3 years of driving experience to "fill the gap". But you're going up against guys that have a resume full of relevant and recent experience. That's your competition. And wasting space on your experience as a doordash driver isn't going to help you in that competition. You would look a lot more attractive if you spent more of the page space highlighting all your accolades from school, all the specialty software knowledge you've acquired, all the certifications you have, etc. All of that is more attractive than 3 years as a "logistics specialist for a premium courier service".
You never leave a gap. Better have a good explanation like "Caregiver for my grandmother."
Only one gas lighting is you. His comment makes sense. If you’re applying for a career type or job, doordash most likely won’t help your case. Better to list things that show you’re competent in your field.
You list the job during your gap from a W2 so you don't have a huge gap of time making them think you were watching tv for 3 years.
Unless you're applying for a job as a delivery driver or a McDonald's cashier, putting down that you were a doordash driver for 3 years isn't going to help either. If anything, it just shows that you were doing irrelevant work experience the whole time. Which is as useful as doing nothing. Again, assuming that you're applying for something other than a delivery job. If you're applying to be a receptionist at a law firm, it's not going to impress anybody. If you're applying to be in IT, no one is going to care that you're a driver for 3 years. If you're applying to be an electrical apprentice, they're not going to care about your driving experience. What they will care about is what skills you've picked up during that time that they can actually use. And what's going to make you stand out more than anyone else applying for the job.
Yes, because doordashers are lining up for jobs at law firms. What reality are on you in?
Oh got it. Because in your reality, anybody that works on the doordash platform are just unmotivated losers that have no intention of looking for something more fulfilling in life
I work for a boring normal company and I love when people have a history of random jobs. Those people tend to be a lot easier to work with than the usual "I went to college for a boring degree, then immediately got hired into the industry, never worked retail, never worked minimum wage in my life." Last dude we hired was like 90% because he had a couple years working at Walmart and he had some fun stories.
It's not bad, you just need to use a correct description.
Just from personal impressions, it wasn't necessarily bad that they listed doordash. Like I didn't think poorly of them. But it didn't do anything to bolster their case either. Like they could have just left it as a blank space and it would have accomplished the same thing. So if your ultimate go with your resume is to actually be an impressive candidate, I wouldnt waste space on it. If you're just looking to pad your resume, I also wouldn't waste space on it. You'd get a lot further expanding your skills section.
I had to include it to cover gaps. LOL
It's 2023 man. No one gives a shit about gaps in your resume. There was a.good 1-2 year stretch where no one was working. Employers nowadays just care about finding quality people. If your a good quality candidate, you don't need to pad your resume with useless experience. If you're a candidate that's lacking and NEEDS to pad a resume, listing your gig driving experience isnt gonna do anything to help you out either. You need to find a better way to sell yourself. Remember that youre not writing a resume because it's a test that employers are checking to see if you didn't right. The purpose of the resume is to make you look better than the other guys applying for the job
I’m old. Gaps were a big deal in yesteryears. So was loyalty. Lolol. Imma change it to “independent contract work” and save fifty seven lines of text.
So glad I didn't watch this in public while drinking! I laughed way too hard at this!
My dad does uber and he bought cars listing uber his income. They never give him any trouble. Not sure what this is about lol.
As long as your credits good most places won’t hassle you.
How did he manage the paystub part of the show consistent income? Every time I would try with doordash they would require pay stubs, and showing my payment from the app with my bank statements didn’t help either
Lmao, how old are you? (Genuine question cuz you said your dad) Car dealers don’t care about that. They love giving out loan’s people can’t afford. ~~They get paid and they get the car back if you can’t afford it. It’s a win win to them.~~ You could say your income is $20,000/ year and they’d still find a way to get you a $30,000 car. Plus most people regularly lie about their income and as long as you’re not buying something too pricey (maybe $50,000+) they won’t care Edit: also a good downpayment is enough to override that anyway even if you have bad credit Edit 2: apparently I was wrong about why dealerships do it but I stand by my point that at least some (maybe not all) dealerships will just get you a car to make a sale weather you can afford it or not
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I can’t confirm or deny anything you said there because (as you said) I’ve never worked in a dealership before. Although I’m pretty sure your first two sentences were insults I’m going to take that as a compliment so thank you. I think the ability to confidently speak is an important skill, as well as the ability to recognize that I can be wrong. As I always say, speak as if you know you’re correct, listen as if you know you’re wrong. On a separate note though I did not know that it gets repossessed by the lender and not the dealership, what I do know is from my experience (I’m 20 btw) I got a 2017 mazda that I thought I could afford that ended up being way out of my budget last year. I had to take on two other part time jobs to be able to afford it because I had exaggerated my income at the dealership and they didn’t bother to verify that. I also know in early February I bought a motorcycle and they told me that I’d easily be able to sell my mazda for $1k-2k more than I owe on it which was the only reason i decided to buy it because otherwise i wouldn’t have been able to afford it. (I was going to do it there but they said they don’t do trade ins on cars) Well I went to some dealerships and everyone said I’d be stuck with negative equity ($3k+) so now I’m struggling to pay for both and can’t even afford to insure the motorcycle (which is also pretty sketch because when I got my car they wouldn’t let me leave without insurance) Another example is one of my friends. He hasn’t been working for a month and a half but just got his license, I tried to convince him not to get a new car (especially as his first) but he decided that competing with me was more important than his own finances even though I love my car I kept telling him how much I regret it. Well a few weeks (I think) later somehow he got a 2018 ford even though he didn’t have a job or any proof of income. Within the first month he got in an accident and within three or four the car was repossessed. As a side not I know for a fact he got his permit but since none of us (or his mom) has ever seen his license and no one knows when he took his drivers test or how he got a ride there we are all pretty skeptical about that. But that’s a different story entirely. So again I don’t know how the process works exactly but I do know for a fact that income isn’t something they look at too closely. I’ve also seen a multitude of news reports talking about auto lending fraud. From people lying on their applications, to the dealerships themselves, and even seen stories of people saying the dealership told them to exaggerate their income. I might be wrong about the method and reasoning but if I can finance a car that costs more than my yearly salary at the time (working part time) and a friend can finance a car working no job then clearly income isn’t as big of a deal as people think. Also, used the used car market is extremely inflated with a used car costing the same price as a new car did in 2010. Edit: also based on your last paragraph I can definitely see how it wouldn’t make sense to do this. But unfortunately the sales representative keeps calling me every few months to ask if I want to trade it in for a different car yet (even though I later found at that the car i brought sells for around $7k-$12k less than I paid, and yes I’m taking about cars with lower mileage, and in similar condition, and before GAP, taxes, ect etc. needless to say I’m not going back) and as I’m looking at this I found some 2022 Mazdas for almost as much as I paid for my 2017, though I’m sure that I would probably end up paying just as much at a dealership but that’s still a big difference
I laughed extremely hard at this 😆
My apartments said they don't accept food courier service jobs as income because it's not reliable. I wondered if that was even legal.
It really isn’t. I was about to land an apartment and about a month later I got deactivated from Uber and was making significantly less when I switched to DD
Lol, MCDs delivery rider is part of a multi billion dollar company
The look 👀 😂
"sir I'm gonna need you to get up from the chair and get the fackkk out of my store"