In many ways it's a plus to have an entrepreneurial stint on your resume. You're basically taking all aspects of design, production, shipping, finances, logistics, legal, etc on your own shoulders, not to mention teamwork and management if you hire or team up with people (highly recommended).
All of these things are skills that employers will like, so long as you can demonstrate in the interview the valuable lessons you learned while doing them. It's all in the presentation. They want you to wow them with the value of your skill set and interpersonal skills, which have just been expanded greatly for free (from their point of view).
They will want to know:
- What roles did you fill, and what you thought about them (they want to know: how strongly do you feel about the position you're applying for vs other options?)
- How did you deal with the day-to-day, and with exceptional circumstances. Are you resourceful and resilient when things go bad?
- How well did you work with others? Do you behave in a professional manner? Do you play the blame game? Are your retrospectives honest, looking for learning points?
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In many ways it's a plus to have an entrepreneurial stint on your resume. You're basically taking all aspects of design, production, shipping, finances, logistics, legal, etc on your own shoulders, not to mention teamwork and management if you hire or team up with people (highly recommended).
All of these things are skills that employers will like, so long as you can demonstrate in the interview the valuable lessons you learned while doing them. It's all in the presentation. They want you to wow them with the value of your skill set and interpersonal skills, which have just been expanded greatly for free (from their point of view).
They will want to know:
- What roles did you fill, and what you thought about them (they want to know: how strongly do you feel about the position you're applying for vs other options?)
- How did you deal with the day-to-day, and with exceptional circumstances. Are you resourceful and resilient when things go bad?
- How well did you work with others? Do you behave in a professional manner? Do you play the blame game? Are your retrospectives honest, looking for learning points?