Going back to career A - do I include Career B on CV?

[specialmagiclady]

After 10 years in reasonably-well-paid Career A, I had kids. I retrained in Career B which is v rewarding, fits in well with kids etc but is very PT and v. low paid.

I have an opportunity to do a short, full-time contract in Career A, which I would like to do for lots of reasons. Not least (but not just) because of the money.

I need to pop a CV on an email, should I put Career B (which is completely irrelevant, really)? Or will that just make it look like I'm not really committed to Career A?

bump - help?

I would put down career B to show that from career A you have been working. But try to make it very clear career A is what you want to do.

How long did you do career B for? They might wonder what you were doing during that time if you don't put career B in.

Are there any skills in career B that could be used in career A that could be flagged up?

If you are doing your CV chronologically you will have to put career B first which is a shame.

I did a short (2 month) completely irrelevant job that I did miss out of my latest (successful) application for the same reasons you want to leave career B out. I think it was ok because the rest of the time I was a SAHM, so they probably assumed I was SAHM that whole time