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canyoneer
Sep 13, 2005


I only have canyoneyes for you
There's no rule that says you need to name the company on your resume. In fact, you may want to exclude the name anyway if it might imply something about you that could be taken the wrong way. It's totally unfair, but everybody has biases and some people choose to minimize the items in their resume that people could make unfair generalizations about. People rely on their biases when they are given a stack of 300 resumes and need to turn that into 10 phone calls for interviews.

If you worked at a church camp, you could instead describe the characteristics as it's relevant to the experience. "Youth summer camp", "supervisor of 15 camp recreation staff with a total volume of 8,000 youth during the summer" rather than "Baptist Bible No Catholics Allowed Super Summer Adventure Camp, Backwater Township, LA". Maybe they saw Jesus Camp on netflix and are getting the wrong idea?

On the other side, maybe you did marketing for a tobacco company and you're looking for a job in health care and want to obscure it a little bit.

For your programmer job at a porn site, you can instead list whatever metrics are meaningful in your industry. "Programmer responsible for XYZwhateve entertainment/media website averaging #X unique daily visitors" and some key accomplishments.

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