Camming on your Resume?

[Venusian]

Hey guys!

Sooo I'm in a bit of a predicament right now. I've just about finished my bachelors degree and am now looking for a white collar job. But since the age of 19 till now (I'm almost 22) I've just been camming to get by. I've got a couple years of volunteer work that I did in between that time, but besides that I don't really have any professional work to add apart from the retail jobs I did when I was 16.

I really want to include some sort of vague self-employed 'online work' on my resume. The thing is, I'm just not quite sure what to say instead of camming. And I don't want to say anything that can be fact checked (e.g saying I run an online business despite not owning a website for it etc).

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, especially if you've implemented your camming experience into your resume before.
Thanks!

 

[InannahQoH]

Hello's.

Its perhaps hard to answer when I don't know the bachelor, or the type of job you are applying for.
Cause its probably different depending on the situation.

But I'm a high up manager of a mass $bil company and hire fairly often, including just hired last week..

It usually takes me 2.5 months of BS to hire someone including going through ~300 applications to choose the final.
Which means I'm down a staff for 1.5 months. Which is a pain in the ass.
So one of the main things I look for is long term stability.. and I ditch any resume's that appear to be "job hoppers"..
It is common for me to find..

Did Uni for 4 years
Worked here for a year.
Went back to uni for a year.
Worked here for a year.
Went and did training here for 6 months.
Worked here for 6 months.
Now I'm applying to you...
So its yeah , fk that and resume in the bin.. As I need someone for many years, not 6 months until they job hop again...

I also don't really care where they have worked before.
Cause I know whoever I hire I'm going to have to train them for 3 months anyway.
So i'm more "Do they have the basic skillset required for this job"..
And that's often done by tests we send out, get back, and mark. To check skill levels on whatever is needed.

I also need the new employee to be giving me their full sole attention..
As I need my staff to do the work, when the work needs doing.. So if that requires working to midnight, then that gets done.
So id not hire someone who had a heavy out of work schedule.. As, I need the availability and full attention.
Whether that be camming / a professional golfer / or whatever..

So..
"I spent the last xx years concentrating on, and working hard on my Bachelor" .. imo isn't a negative thing

 

[CheeseMoon]

I also need the new employee to be giving me their full sole attention..
As I need my staff to do the work, when the work needs doing.. So if that requires working to midnight, then that gets done.
So id not hire someone who had a heavy out of work schedule.. As, I need the availability and full attention.
Whether that be camming / a professional golfer / or whatever..

Said the high up manager in a multi billion dollar company with a Chaturbate broadcaster profile. But I guess serfs, indentured servants and peasants have other rules than C-level demigods.

 

[InannahQoH]

Said the high up manager in a multi billion dollar company with a Chaturbate broadcaster profile. But I guess serfs, indentured servants and peasants have other rules than C-level demigods.

Hello's.
As I said depends on what white collar job they are applying for : ).
If they are applying for a local job, like a fixed hours 9-5 or something... Then what happens outside of those work hours would be irrelevant.

But now days, especially with Covid and a work from home environment being common for the last year.. Staff can now apply for a job anywhere in the world.
And with global applying for jobs, competition's tough. As I said, I stopped reading applications at 300.

As for me, I'm a step down from C-level.
My hours are as needed, sometimes 4am -7pm, sometimes 9am-> midnight, usually 65-70 hour weeks. And on call 24/7.
And my staff are on the same sort of hours.
One of the things with global companies, your staff/bosses/colleagues/etc you need to work with are scattered around the world in different time-zones.

But yes, I am learning and setting up for streaming. I don't have much time though, thus the, I'm still setting up and have zero hours live.
Easter break in my country though, So I'll see if I can get started this pub hol break.
I get the feeling though, I'm going to have to delay a bit more while I fly in a Leap Motion Controller, As they don't seem to sell them in my country.

 

[Venusian]

Hello's.

Thanks for this response, it was quite insightful. I have a social science degree and I'm not sure what type of jobs I'll be applying for, tbh I'm just gonna apply for as many white collar jobs as I can but I assume most will be 9-5.

I'd still really like to include a form of online work on my resume, especially as I can easily prove I did it through payslips etc. It just seems like a waste not to include it.

So please, if anybody has any ideas on what to say on a resume instead of camming, please do let me know!

 

[GoddessV]

You can say internet marketing, social media, customer service, etc and say you worked for family/friend. You don't need to say a business name but you can make one up and say they closed. You do not need to show payslips - never heard of that happening.

Think of the skills you learned as a camgirl - making and editing videos? Interacting with customers? Photography? managing social media? Don't lie about your skills but yes, lie/embellish about the name of the business if needed. If anything, make an email and say they can contact the company there.

 

[InannahQoH]

You can say internet marketing, social media, customer service, etc and say you worked for family/friend. You don't need to say a business name but you can make one up and say they closed. You do not need to show payslips - never heard of that happening.

Think of the skills you learned as a camgirl - making and editing videos? Interacting with customers? Photography? managing social media? Don't lie about your skills but yes, lie/embellish about the name of the business if needed. If anything, make an email and say they can contact the company there.

Decent reply imo..

And I don't mean this in a bad way.... but ^^^^ is some reasons why I don't pay much attention to 1/2 the shit in the resume's/applications : )

>>I also don't really care where they have worked before.
>>Cause I know whoever I hire I'm going to have to train them for 3 months anyway.
>>So i'm more "Do they have the basic skillset required for this job"..
>>And that's often done by tests we send out, get back, and mark. To check skill levels on whatever is needed.

And I'm not speaking to the 1000+ people that applied.
So for example if I'm hiring a specialist for xxxxxxxxxx
Then we will develop a long complicated test for that position..
And send that out to the first ~300 that apply.
Resister here, signin here, answer the 35 questions provided within a 4 hour time-limit.
Additionally, create this / design this / video this... and upload/attach these to your completed application within 24 hours.
The testing reduces the 300 to about 30, the 30's resume's are gone through and reduced to about 10, the top 3 are interviewed.
If i cant find someone, in that batch, I move onto the next 300 in the queue.

As I said, hiring someone is 2.5 months of bullshit of being staff down etc, then 3 months of training a new hire. its not something that is done lightly.

 

[MarieElise]

Hey guys!

Sooo I'm in a bit of a predicament right now. I've just about finished my bachelors degree and am now looking for a white collar job. But since the age of 19 till now (I'm almost 22) I've just been camming to get by. I've got a couple years of volunteer work that I did in between that time, but besides that I don't really have any professional work to add apart from the retail jobs I did when I was 16.

I really want to include some sort of vague self-employed 'online work' on my resume. The thing is, I'm just not quite sure what to say instead of camming. And I don't want to say anything that can be fact checked (e.g saying I run an online business despite not owning a website for it etc).

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, especially if you've implemented your camming experience into your resume before.
Thanks!

I've been in some management positions, and I have also looked for exactly what Inannah mentioned - staying power and stability. I don't care what field someone was in, but more how long they stayed at it. For a 22 y/o to have stayed w camming for 3 years, and also stayed w school at the same time would make you look really good to me. I don't want to risk losing my time and the company's monetary investment in training someone, just to have them skip off to something else.

Depending on the career and area you are looking for a job in, you may or may not get a background check. Even if you do, it might not be in incredible detail (again depending on your geographical locale, and the type of job you are applying for). I would think the chances are your camming would show up on a background check as some ambiguous sounding web company name. In that case, I would just upsell the customer service aspects, the need to be able to listen to what people want, respond to problems calmly, video editing, photography, organizational, communication skills etc. Plus it's probably going to have added to your computer savviness and may have also added to your marketing and PR experience. Plus your ability to be a self starter and innovative, and someone who doesn't need constant micromanagement (past the initial training/ learning phase) to get shit done on their own.

 

[InannahQoH]

Thanks for this response, it was quite insightful. I have a social science degree and I'm not sure what type of jobs I'll be applying for, tbh I'm just gonna apply for as many white collar jobs as I can but I assume most will be 9-5.
I'd still really like to include a form of online work on my resume, especially as I can easily prove I did it through payslips etc. It just seems like a waste not to include it.
So please, if anybody has any ideas on what to say on a resume instead of camming, please do let me know!

Still cant really answer you properly, cause don't know what you majored in, what country you are in, etc..
And lets keep the personal info out of the forums anyway. : ) / doesn't matter.

But I would suggest, just have a think about Covid, and how that's affected the world / jobs.

For example.
1. We aren't, as far as I am aware, in a 9-5 come work in the office.. Environment any more.
2. None of my staff at least, have been to their attached office where they used to work from, for ~a year.
3. Ive informed my company, that my staff will not be returning to any office to work, for at least another 4 months. In 4 months I'll reassess that.
4. My most recent hire, was blocked from attending the local office, All hiring process was done online, and all of the equipment they need now they have been hired will be couriered (Computer / office Chair / office equipment ETC ETC)
5. Instead of hiring in the country where we normally would have hired for this position, we opened the job up to global, cause where the person is working from home, doesn't really matter.
And thus got flooded with applications from global.

6. Some of my staff have "Hey since im working from home anyway, do you mind if I relocate to <This country> where my family is located, and work from home there instead ?? / I can fly back if you ever need me in the office again later"
7. I got a call 2 days ago from Europe, saying they wanted to hire one of my ex staff (in another continent) for them to work remotely / work for Europe.
So I did the recommendation/referral for the ex-staff. Said they were more than capable of working remote from another country, etc..

Its just......... now a lot of jobs have moved from the office, to working remote at home online...
And the job industry has changed a lot.. Due to this.

Whether you apply for the office next door that's closed and work from home for them.
or apply for a English language guidance councillor (or whatever), for a Danish company, working at home, remotely, online, for them..
Doesn't matter much if you are still at home and working online.