How can I make my resume stand out with a recent termination that was out of my control and being a stay-at-home father for 5 1/2 years?
I was doing one term with Americorps this past year and was terminated a couple weeks before the term ended. I was terminated because I wasn't working enough hours for them.
It was a rough year for me overall and wasn't how I wanted my term to go. I was sick which kept me from working a few days, my wife who has multiple sclerosis and I needed to stay home a few days to help her. I was injured on the job and was out for two months and I had hand surgery which kept me out of work for several months.
The reason why I was out of work for the injury and surgery is because there is no light duty work to be done except about once a month, which i would go in for. All my work was done outside since I worked in a State Park.
My supervisor for the year gave me a glowing final review saying that when I am there, I work hard, have pride in my work and do what it is that I am asked to do. He even said in his description that my time off was out of my control for the most part. He told me to have potential employers call him so that he can fully explain the situation, but that means that employers have to be willing to interview me and once they see a termination on my application, that keeps them from wanting to hire me.
I also have on my resume and job applications that I was a stay-at-home father for 5 1/2 years, which that surely does not help me with most employers. The reason for me saying that it doesn't help is because Rita Staffing had told me that they couldn't help me for that very reason. This was over 3 years ago when I moved to where I am now.
Also, even though I had surgery to correct a hand injury that I sustained on my own, the surgery wasn't successful and I am limited in what I am able to do for employment. It essentially has to be light duty things and not telemarketing. I tried telemarketing and I don't have the attitude for it and failed miserably while doing it, same with sales, I'm not a sales person as I don't have that cut throat attitude. Being a Christian man kinda means that I'm not to have a cut throat attitude that salesmen require, especially when it comes to car sales.
My skill set is warehousing and being an EMT. That's it. Both I am unable to do because of the heavy lifting involved in both jobs, or the dexterity needed being an EMT.
I have tried McDonalds, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Dominos, Walmart, restaurants as a host (something that I know is light duty) and so on and so forth.
The only one that took a chance was Americorps and because it's a federal program and no one else applied for that particular park I was accepted.
So that is my background.
We need a second income since my wife's SSDI doesn't pay enough for us to survive and her one day a week at Olive Garden while helps, is too little income.
I was doing one term with Americorps this past year and was terminated a couple weeks before the term ended. I was terminated because I wasn't working enough hours for them.
It was a rough year for me overall and wasn't how I wanted my term to go. I was sick which kept me from working a few days, my wife who has multiple sclerosis and I needed to stay home a few days to help her. I was injured on the job and was out for two months and I had hand surgery which kept me out of work for several months.
The reason why I was out of work for the injury and surgery is because there is no light duty work to be done except about once a month, which i would go in for. All my work was done outside since I worked in a State Park.
My supervisor for the year gave me a glowing final review saying that when I am there, I work hard, have pride in my work and do what it is that I am asked to do. He even said in his description that my time off was out of my control for the most part. He told me to have potential employers call him so that he can fully explain the situation, but that means that employers have to be willing to interview me and once they see a termination on my application, that keeps them from wanting to hire me.
I also have on my resume and job applications that I was a stay-at-home father for 5 1/2 years, which that surely does not help me with most employers. The reason for me saying that it doesn't help is because Rita Staffing had told me that they couldn't help me for that very reason. This was over 3 years ago when I moved to where I am now.
Also, even though I had surgery to correct a hand injury that I sustained on my own, the surgery wasn't successful and I am limited in what I am able to do for employment. It essentially has to be light duty things and not telemarketing. I tried telemarketing and I don't have the attitude for it and failed miserably while doing it, same with sales, I'm not a sales person as I don't have that cut throat attitude. Being a Christian man kinda means that I'm not to have a cut throat attitude that salesmen require, especially when it comes to car sales.
My skill set is warehousing and being an EMT. That's it. Both I am unable to do because of the heavy lifting involved in both jobs, or the dexterity needed being an EMT.
I have tried McDonalds, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Dominos, Walmart, restaurants as a host (something that I know is light duty) and so on and so forth.
The only one that took a chance was Americorps and because it's a federal program and no one else applied for that particular park I was accepted.
So that is my background.
We need a second income since my wife's SSDI doesn't pay enough for us to survive and her one day a week at Olive Garden while helps, is too little income.
Seriously though, almost everything out here on trucks is loaded by lift operators. Anything like that where your at?