Lack of consistent work history doesn’t look good on a resume. It’s a red flag for hiring managers—they might assume the candidate either kept getting fired due to poor performance/lousy workplace behavior or easily lost motivation to work. Whatever your reason for having short-term stints, you can still create a strong resume and avoid the “job-hopper” label. Here’s how: a. Use a functional or combination resume format, focusing more on your skills than work experience. b. Write a compelling career objective. Emphasize your desire to stay in a position or stick to a company for a long time. c. List transferrable skills that you gained from an unrelated job or industry that you can apply to the new position. d. Have a separate section for your work achievements. Show that you contributed something valuable to your former employers, even if you stayed only briefly. e. Omit short-term jobs that are irrelevant to the new position. f. Combine work experiences, if possible. This strategy works for candidates with related freelance projects with different clients. Instead of listing each freelance gig, you can group the projects under one entry and indicate that it’s for various clients. g. Let your cover letter do the talking. Mention that you’re looking for a career change and briefly explain why. If the job-hopping was involuntary, state the reason (e.g., layoff, redundancy, business closure, etc.). You can also list what you will do to help address the team or company's challenges.