A bit off topic I guess

Depends on what your other skills are .

my nephew paid a woman who does resumes , to tailor his resume to each job He applied for

he never got an interview until he started paying this lady to write a resume for each job application
Then he got an interview every time
Wound up working for progressive insurance with a 100% work from home job at $75k

 

You're in a good location to become a merchant seaman or work on a cruise ship.

 

I’m a pretty good handyman and mechanic so I didn’t have too much trouble transitioning from owning a truck to working on on the maintenance staff at a hospital.

started out as a temp job for 90 days but they kept asking me to stay an extra 90 etc and then they finally offered me the position of maint supervisor.

 

there are always professionals that can build a killer resume for you...many are worj=king at thier homes, or strip malls.

i put one together years ago, i got job offers, but i cannot recall how i put it together.

 

In 50+ years of work, that's one thing I never did, was submit a resume. Trucking was considered one of those jobs where you could shmooze your way in, and by shmooze, I mean, the boss wasn't some faceless entity, you went in, looked him or her in the eye, and said, "I'm a natural born leeever puller, and you'd be stupid NOT to hire me", and the boss made the determination right then and there. None of this resume crap, GET GOIN'! I realize times have changed, but with all the electronic record keeping today, a future employer can go back to kindergarten if they want. A resume seems horribly old fashioned. I hopped around too, had 2 jobs in a week once, but that has all changed. One glitch stays with you forever. When you say, "done driving", you mean no license, or just done with a truck, because, today, due to the lack of ambition, there are so many opportunities for someone that actually wants to work. Look closer within. Trucking is kind of a copout, really, it requires little training and can appeal to most who are truly out of options. If you still like to drive, so many options. How about a bus driver? Yard jockey? Line haul? Heck, transport the elderly, and not sure any require a resume. Good luck, and if you do write a resume, I wouldn't list ALL the jobs. Job hopping, especially in trucking, isn't so rare these here days.

 

I was chatting with a guy that just graduated from a 2 year community college hvac course and had seven interviews and no job offer , I told him he had to be putting off bad vibes or something .

every hvac company is begging for workers

 

Move where there are more jobs. Americans stopped moving and nail their feet to the ground.

Work inside at a trucking company, be prepaired for a pay cut.

 

Often local groups for the unemployed and seniors have little seminars on resume building.

It does not need to be exactly job specific and remember resumes over one page plus cover letter usually get trashed

Google 'chronological resume'...lets you group some stuff together

X years doing whatever you did before driving -short description
x years driving for others - describe things like any special training and safety awards
x years owning my own - describe your business abilities, spend the most time on this

'currently looking to use X experience to do X kind of job'

the cover letter needs to be specific to each application and needs to mention the 'experience desired' buzz words in the job description to get past the sorting computer softwear.

The perfect resume won't get an interview without the buzz words somewhere

 

Yeah
Most places use software to count the buzzwords and if you’re not over X amount of buzzwords you’re in the trash