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Do employers check to verify gig work? Are big corporations more likely than small businesses and Mom & Pop businesses to check your gig work history? I've done some gig work off and on during layoffs. I know there's little to no regulations surrounding gig work. I'm worried that employers don't want to see overlapping (W2 job dates with the same mm/you as gig work) because it shows that you're not loyal and you're likely to quit. Also I had a big gap in employment from 2014 to 2022 (I had a 100% disability rating from the VA back then). Platforms like Uber and lyft were around then. One of the platforms I drive on is Uber. Could I put on my resume that I've been driving on Uber since 2014 when I've only been driving on Uber since 2021? 10 years at Uber looks better on a resume than an employment gap of 8 years followed by 2 years of gig work plus W2 work.
@@ALifeAfterLayoff yes. You can leave a job off a resume. You're not the dev you were before, so why let an old bad experience pull you down? Remove it and adjust the time.
Leaving jobs off the resume is okay, but on the flip side of overselling yourself keep in mind some companies make you sign documents when you get hired attesting to your truthfulness of your resume. So, its probably best not to overly lie about your job experience. Because your resume could then be used as a legal document
Short answer, yes… Always lie to employers. Never feel obligated to share all of your work history with employers. They’ll just use it against you anyway they can. It’s like talking to police. Anything you say can and will be used against you.
Why they lie to you And they're willing to imperil your future, make you lose your house, be unable to get food, unable to support people, unable to love your life. Theyll tell you to work 15 minutes before and 15 after without pay, work through breaks, give your entire life to them. Do not give them anything
Not only it’s OK but many times necessary to customize your resume to the job posting. I look at it this way: Anything in your resume can be used against you during the screening and interview processes, so edit accordingly. The potential employer will certainly not share everything with you, then why should you?
I have 40 years of experience, removing the first 20 years has allowed me to begin having interviews again. Not a big problem for me as I appear to be 10 years younger than I am (so as I am told) and went to college at the age of 30 which works well for dates too.
Yes, it is ok. I just quit a job a couple of weeks ago. I have 13 yrs of straight employment before that. I was only there for 3 months. It was a shitty retail job for a small store. The manager was OCD about every little detail. Plus they had promised me more hours, originally. They had cut me down to 15 hrs a week. I told them I can't make this work. So I quit. 🙂 I just applied to a couple real jobs. I left this one off my resume.
I had a job coach tell me its ok to not have a job you don’t want to talk about on your resume. (I didn’t want to talk about a very toxic fast food job I had)
@@inudigifan201 heh I got yelled at because I was making pancakes too small on my first day at McD's; even at 17 I had less-than-stellar thoughts about certain managers and management in general. Guy's long dead by now anyway.
I just left a job that was a complete waste of time. I knew six months in that it was a mistake, but I'm related to the owner so I kinda felt obligated, like I was helping him in a way. I was there almost two years and finally had enough, don't make the mistake I did, if a job feels like a dead end or you just aren't happy update your resume and abandon ship.
On your CV instead of EXPERIENCE put done SELECTED EXPERIENCE and list what is relevant. Its the same logic as for training courses / certifications - instead of listing everything you done you just list what is relevant.
Correct, but eventually someone in the organization will see most of where an applicant has been, and will need to be volunteered information, at some point in the hiring process, by applicant Based on first hand experience, I can say with confidence, that not listing employment dates or over-summarizing a resume, can now be considered an “omission” because of how some employers are interpreting the information provided by background checks conducted by ADP SAAS and Equifax Workforce Solutions (some HR departments have been directed by management to use both at the same time to produce a composite employment history which is then interpreted by the employers staff, not ADP or from Equifax “The Work Number database”). I’ve had to formally appeal and correct multiple errors with these background check services, over the last 5 years, during onboarding as a new hire and also for annual “integrity checks” to keep my job. Note, this is something new that employers are doing now. I’ve never had to conduct an investigation and dispute with the findings of a background checker, ever in my career previously.
I did 3 miserable months at a nonprofit. They fired me and it wasnt until much later i realized they were protecting themselves from a lawsuit and I missed the opportunity.
Wise advice as always Sir!! When I was 17, quit a grocery store job less than graciously. My boss had bullied me for two years, so on my last day, I finally snapped. I grabbed the phone, and proceeded to make a profane rant over the store's PA system. I made light of her weight problem, and continued to cuss her out over the speaker system, with a store full of customers and fellow employees. This was inherently foolish of me. Prior to that incident, I had been a model employee. The customers loved me, as did my coworkers and the upper management of the store. I would have absolutely received a positive recommendation up to that point, but threw it all away for less than a minute of enjoyment. Needless to say, I left that job off my resume.
I had an HR interviewer advise me to put all my work history in my CV even though those jobs weren’t pertinent nor relevant to the work experience for the position being applied. Needless to say I still ended up not getting the job. I’ll continue to only list my relevant work experiences, thank you very much.
Nothing much to share, they just decided to end my job 7 days in. The person said no reason was necessary since it was within my first 90 days and just sent me off
I can't believe some people are asking this question...heck yeah it's okay! I took a management job, sold my house, moved to a different city for it...only to quit at lunch time 6 weeks later LOL. I've never been asked about that job. In fact, I took the following 7 months to self study and get into a different field (tech altogether)...via UA-cam. I've never had any one ask about that 8 month gap, either.
In this age of project hires, a person with years of experience will rack up lots of companies. To keep a resume at two pages, it's necessary to leave irrelevant jobs off in order to highlight more detail that better relate to the job you're applying for.
I love the “other relevant experience” section! I once was prepared to sign on to an LLC with three other parties. Six months into our planning and preparation, one backed out and made it so the rest of us had to as well. I don’t include this on my resume since I never held an official title, but those six months were critical to my current communication and planning capabilities, and the knowledge I gained proves invaluable in every aspect of my life now
I usually take off some jobs that are pointless like seasonal jobs. Unless they’re fun jobs I wanna talk about like gardening or farming. If I need to look like I been working I usually add seasonal jobs just to say hey I’m hustling and am a good worker ever since graduatin college.
I don't include my initial (very successful) 20+ year sales experience. I left for my sanity and moved into more "project management" positions. I only include the last ~12 years on my resume as it's most relevant to my current pursuits and, frankly, at 56 years old I am trying to remove an immediate ageist rejection.
If a job is too old and doesn't really align with your new skills then yes, it is perfectly fine. I know software engineers who have been working in the industry since the 90s and they don't list their 20 y/o jobs. I've worked in fast food and obviously I never list that in my resume.
Thank you! I worked for a company that treated (almost) everyone there like s*** - there was yet another negative review on Glassdoor a week ago. I leave this off my resume because the old HR person very likely wrote very negative things about me before she was fired.
I worked at the Veterans Administration for three months shy of my probationary period and it was a horrible, traumatic experience. They didn't provide adequate training or detailed information about the daily job and schedule expectations. Those folks couldn't ever evaluate my skills and experience. I don't include it on my resume.
Background check companies are usually only verifying what you wrote on the application. Several years back, I had a job that lasted 6 weeks when I quit due to a personality conflict with the hiring manager. Never put it on my resume and was never questioned about it by future employer background checks.
Talk for yourself. Are you American? I am not... And jobs come in my background, since I was on a work visa seven years ago. One is still in a contentious issue and I am obligated to mention it, since it comes up in the crappy immigration & Mexican Social Security system...
@@josephpatti4575 They find out, trust me. I left one off of my resume at a company that did a comprehensive background check (using Orange) and it found the job. Fortunately I was able to explain it to their HR.
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I've ditched 2 awful experiences from my CV. I was being asked in subsequent interviews why I had so many job changes in such a short period of time. I can't and shouldn't have to take responsibility for every rubbish company out there.
3:35 my situation is a little interesting, I was in a long term position until April ‘22, then took a new role at a different company for 6 months before being laid off for nearly a year. The job was relevant to roles I was applying for, but was a slight step down in position title and I didn’t have much impact in that amount of time. Debated keeping it on (for the work history) or leaving it off (reverse mobility & no impact during time).
Yea the ATS probably doesn't want to know I worked for a cleaning service and retail to help me get me through school and I'm applying for a cybersecurity role. If the hiring manager asks I'll tell them.
I've left Jobs off my resume before.. No one's ever found out, come to me, and said Why did you never mention this? What I'm wondering though-- what do you do with jobs that no longer exist? Like the company still exists, but your specific location/manager/ area is gone? For example, I did camera room/loss prevention at Dillard's for a time, but the store is gone. The mall is knocked down. The mangers are God knows where.
If the company still exist it’s fine, if u were to put it in your resume u can still speak about your experience working there. I would still put the old location I’m sure the employer / interviewer can find out what happened if they really wanted too I just wouldn’t use them as a reference if you cannot locate the manager anymore or whoever
i left out mostly my fast food jobs when i first started working in my early 20s and i’m almost 40 now. is that bad? i have about 5 jobs in my resume currently
Yes, you can. Majority of the interviewers don't give an F about your whole job history. They'll only focus on the latest ones and those who have relation to the job offer. Also, my last job was in July as a consortium seller. I was there just for a week. It was an awful experience, so not worth having it in my resume
Why would I include my short time working in a boiler room for a mortgage lender on my resume when the last few positions I've held were either in contract or proprietary security? Not related and yep, you're first point.
Well Im taking double naught spy of my resume. I'm currently in the process of retraining. I just received a Copy of Brain Surgery for Dummies, however I'm keeping my options open for monster truck driver.
I left a few jobs off my cv , I left a job which lasted three days which was an employment agency at a company, I left that off , as I was let go, not suitable. I always try to fill gas in my cv, short term , short temporary jobs are okay if it got some skills you have picked up., most the companies I worked for are not around now, and agencies change names. or two merged into one
It took me a lot of explanation to do if I include them. Leave them out. If it leaves a few month gap, so be it. If the companies are looking for someone who never had a gap in the resume and immediately start a new job, you don’t need it anyways.
Do you have any videos on job gaps? I had to stop working for a year due to my son being deathly ill. And its been hard to get a job with such a large gap in employment. Any advice?
If you're at the same company but took some roles or worked on some teams that were not so good and wanted to exclude those, would the background check be able to determine that on the application?
My first 3 jobs were contracts that lasted 4 months, 8 months, and 4 months(technically FTE but ended do to me not being a good fit) respectively. 14 years later, needless to say these are off of my resume for good and out of memory 😀
I'm not sure how I'd remove a toxic job that I had for too long off my resume (that was more than a decade of my life that I won't get back). Then again my late grandfather foretold me years ago that there will come many twists and turns and that many opportunities will arise. While I'm working a job I generally like, I'm still not over the post trauma of my previous, toxic job that I was looked down on a lot.
I'll never forget this job I applied to where after I filled out the application, I was given this form that asked me if I had left off any positions on my application and below it said they can check with The SSA to see all the jobs you've had.
Sounds more like a way to scare you than that they were actually going to check, but yes, this is definitely not a fool-proof concept. Most companies probably won't. Similar to that, I remember talking to a friend of mine who ran a company of about 30 employees, and he said he was asks for salary verification. I'd never heard of this,but apparently it's way of actually finding out if what you say you made on your previous job is actually what you were paid.
@kevinmach730 Yeah, this was about 20-25 years ago when I applied. I have never seen anything like that on any applications since then.But you're right it was probably there as a scare tactic.
I was fired after two weeks and never included it on a resume or application. Seven years later I was working as a temporary employee at that company in another state and they wanted to hire me, so in that case I told what had happened because they would find out anyway, even though I had since married and changed my name. They hired me anyway.
Will companies reject you before looking at your resume? I ask because these online applications are very time consuming and it’s redundant to fill out job information, school and certs already on your resume.
Would you tell a recruiter all the jobs you've worked? I was at a job a few months ago that I quit recently. It had nothing to do with my other professional jobs. If I leave that job off my resume will look like I haven't worked for a year.
I think either you liked it or not, every experience we had opportunities to work on, are adding up to you as an individual and therefore, every little helps nothing is wasted time.
Hi, I have a slightly related question. Soon I will be interviewing for a job I am slightly underqualified for on paper, but considering I come from within the team I am a desired candidate. I expect an offer. Our company works in scales, so the scale is set. The question is: Am i still in a position to negotiate? I know other similar jobs want me and would pay more than the bottom of the range, but I am afraid i will not be able to counter the argument that it is a huge step up either way. How would you do this? Thanks in advance for your or any other commenter's reply!
If you also do some side work while working a full time job should you include the side job in your resume? Would the hiring manager think that you are not dedicated to your main full-time job because you also have a side gig such as consulting?
What about if the job I want to leave off is my current position? It doesn’t add value to my career, and I just took it to close the employment gap after a 1.5 year sabbatical. Please advise.
I would normally say "SURE" but in my experience the irrelevant job is less important than a time gap, ESPECIALL with government or contractors who require EVERY time window to be work or school.
I was fired from 2 jobs due to personality conflict with management. Not due to anything I did. I never put that I was fired. I work in a field that’s always looking for bodies so I always managed to get job by the next week. I only put month and years worked. And that I left the position. Interviewer almost never asked why I left. And I don’t offer the information. When they do ask I say that it wasn’t a good fit.
The answer is only if it’s old. I had a coworker who hid a bunch of stuff on their resume. Turns out he was fired from those jobs and was trying to hide his incompetence. He was promptly fired again because of it. Had he been honest about his experience we might have not taken such drastic measures because management didn’t want to do it. But the manipulation is what got him fired as they could no longer trust him.
If you have experience, I wouldn't go back more than 10 years. Leave the irrelevant jobs off. Describe what you did in terms of the difference you made. A résumé isn't a job history. It's a customized marketing tool. You want to convince an employer that you understand who they are, what they do, and that you can solve their problem (job opening usually means there's something not getting done in a timely manner). A résumé should also be a living document that's always current and ready to customize. If you're laid off or you spot a good opportunity, you're ready.
I did because it was an under the table HVAC job and I honestly don't remember that employer's contact info. Also it was more than 10 years old which airlines don't care about and neither does the TSA & Customs (for airport credential background checks). Both groups only want the last 10 years of your history.
I always let jobs out of my resume. As a youth, I always had a summer job. I started at 14. Should I put those jobs in my resume? Absolutely not! Then I worked as a machinist (lathe operator) while I was studying to become an automotive engineer. Should I put that job in my resume? Absolutely! Do I have a choice? Can I let those jobs out, when I'm going to apply for an engineer position at the same plant? They already have my employment records. After working for about 7-8 years as automotive engineer, I switched to software development for more money (double salary actually). Back in my country, Romania, everything was hunky dory with these sort of career changes. It was normal. When you complete some sort of technical post-secondary education in Romania you are supposed to know programming, because no one accepts "hand calculation". Most of the time. you must build a program that does the calculation. That's how it works. So, yeah, switching from various technical fields to computing is like Monday in Romania. No one sees any problem. The problem arrived after I immigrated to Canada. Employers seem to have an issue with you switching from a management position to a simple developer job. It does not sound right to 9 people out of 10. No one can comprehend how can you give up on such "amazing" position for a simple one, where leadership skills are not required. I have been asked to explain countless times, at every interview, all my past decisions. I got tired, so, I removed all those "outrageous" positions from my resume. That did the trick. I got multiple offers. People thought that I was like 10 years younger. However, they can find your previous jobs, no matter how hard you try to hide them. Two of my employers asked me to agree to a background check when I got the job. I agreed, and they found out. There are companies specialized in background checks, they do the job and sell the records to whoever asks and presents your background check agreement with the photo ID.
I was contractor that worked off and on for a government office. I took an oath to uphold certain statutes and to report violations of these. When I reported them I was removed from the department (telling me I did wrong by reporting) and transferred elsewhere and they did not renew my contract. How do I address this on a resume/interview?
I always do. I'm looking for a certain job. If some of my past jobs aren't related of the job search I'm doing I always leave out. I never leave anything in the resume that will lose track of the reader that are reading hundreds of resume. So I never jot down jobs not relied to that job search. So the reader of my resume won't be looking for the no pile.
I was fired in 2004 from the first full-time job related to my degree that I ever had. I was in that job for two years and left the industry for two years after that. This job, and the stopgap jobs I held for the next two years, have not appeared on my resume for a long time now. No employer I’ve spoken with since has cared enough to bring them up.
if I included every job, I should also include unpaid volunteering that were harder than any job Ive ever had, and if I did that my resume would be 5 pages long.
I have a question, and your experience could help. I've worked as a talent acquisition manager in a small consultant firm in hometown, from 2020-24, then moved to a bigger town to get a job in a corporation of 400-500 people as a recruiter, should that be mentioned or not ?
You can definitely do this. No one is going to check to verify educational levels beyond those required by the job.That being said, I have been in situations where I probably should have done this. One job in particular, they interviewed me 3 different times over 6 months and eventually hired me because the 2-3 people they hired instead didn't work out. I found that tibit out about a year later into my employment there, and also found out part of the reason they were hesitant to hire me because my education / work experience- they thought I would quit the second something better came along, when in reality I was just looking for a less demanding role (of course, I never told them this at any point in the interview, you don't want to admit that).
In short. Can you leave it off your resume? yes. But during an in-depth background check someone CAN ask when you started/ended work. So be prepared to explain any gaps or inconsistencies.
My resume goes back 45 years. When I was applying for government jobs, they wanted resume with every job you have ever had on it. Really? You want to know about my paper route in 1974? So I sort of summarized several jobs in college and shortly before going into the military...no one has EVER asked.
You can leave jobs off your application also. If they don't know you worked at a company they wont know to talk to them about you working for that company. Its not like they are going to call random companies to see if you worked for them. But you will have to say you where unemployed during that time period which could be far worse as companies really frown on periods of unemployment.
Ok so it would be especially helpful if you can help me and others out here. I work in IT and in that comes a lot of contract work. After completing the application, the data will typically port over to the background check company (e.g. ADP, etc.). For example say I was contracted by "Recruiters R US" to work at Amazon for a one-year contract. I worked for Amazon... not Recruiters R US. How should we put this down on an application. Lately I've been putting down things like Company1: Amazon (Contract via Recruiters R US). is that correct? I lost a job offer back in May 2020 because of this (during the pandemic when I was laid off for MONTHS). Nobody told me what I should put down so when they contacted a previous company they said "We don't have record he worked for us", as they (and others) only look at full-time employees. That honestly started my disdain of HR. The offer was rescinded almost immediately and I didn't do anything wrong.
I once left a job after two weeks after finding a rejected candidate who I had sent there from a staffing agency was hired directly without paying me a fee. I do not put this employer on a resume. Years later, a financial institution, known to do extensive background checks, questioned me hard about why I’d lie on my resume and why I was there only two weeks. I told them the job was misrepresented and moved on, which seemed to satisfy HR. Unfortunately, I’ve had no choice but to take a position below my capabilities due to long economic recession in banking. I cannot leave it off my resume since I had to stay several years. Work at a lower salary or stay unemployed and widen the job gap, or be thankful for the lower opportunity. I have no doubt this has hurt my career.
Lol I have an uncomfortable truth for you. You don't have a career, you never did. You've had JOBS. Most of us don't have careers anymore, it's all about money and freedom.
I left out 3 jobs from my resume (short-term jobs that were not the right fit for me in the beginning of my career). I only include jobs that would add value and give credence to my career trajectory and highlights my experience and skills.
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I have a question should I include every former employers business addresses on my resume? When you have time, Please let me know thanks.
Do employers check to verify gig work? Are big corporations more likely than small businesses and Mom & Pop businesses to check your gig work history?
I've done some gig work off and on during layoffs. I know there's little to no regulations surrounding gig work. I'm worried that employers don't want to see overlapping (W2 job dates with the same mm/you as gig work) because it shows that you're not loyal and you're likely to quit.
Also I had a big gap in employment from 2014 to 2022 (I had a 100% disability rating from the VA back then). Platforms like Uber and lyft were around then. One of the platforms I drive on is Uber.
Could I put on my resume that I've been driving on Uber since 2014 when I've only been driving on Uber since 2021? 10 years at Uber looks better on a resume than an employment gap of 8 years followed by 2 years of gig work plus W2 work.
@@EmmanuelRodriguez-d8i I personally have never included my former employers business address on any of my resumes. In my opinion it's not important.
@@ALifeAfterLayoff yes. You can leave a job off a resume. You're not the dev you were before, so why let an old bad experience pull you down?
Remove it and adjust the time.
@@NickTheCodeMechanicdon’t adjust the time or employment dates. Easiest way to not pass a background & risk having the offer rescinded.
Your resume is a marketing tool not a legal document.
Yes leave off those short, toxic jobs.
Leaving jobs off the resume is okay, but on the flip side of overselling yourself keep in mind some companies make you sign documents when you get hired attesting to your truthfulness of your resume. So, its probably best not to overly lie about your job experience. Because your resume could then be used as a legal document
Short answer, yes… Always lie to employers. Never feel obligated to share all of your work history with employers. They’ll just use it against you anyway they can. It’s like talking to police. Anything you say can and will be used against you.
Yet those are the employers that complain that they can't find good workers. Top talent must be fought for. Rock Stars know Rock Stars.
Lying is absolutely terrible advice. Omitting things is perfectly fine.
But then come the lawsuits.
It's only a lie of they ask for the gap. If they don't ask why a gap. No lie needs to happen
Why they lie to you
And they're willing to imperil your future, make you lose your house, be unable to get food, unable to support people, unable to love your life. Theyll tell you to work 15 minutes before and 15 after without pay, work through breaks, give your entire life to them.
Do not give them anything
Not only it’s OK but many times necessary to customize your resume to the job posting. I look at it this way: Anything in your resume can be used against you during the screening and interview processes, so edit accordingly. The potential employer will certainly not share everything with you, then why should you?
Agreed. I tailor my resume for most applications. I get a good response rate (relatively speaking of course.) Just don't let ChatGPT do it for you.
I have 40 years of experience, removing the first 20 years has allowed me to begin having interviews again. Not a big problem for me as I appear to be 10 years younger than I am (so as I am told) and went to college at the age of 30 which works well for dates too.
yup i finally got old enough where I had to start doing the same and rolling stuff off the bottom of resume to not appear so old or outdated :D
I don’t keep anything past 10 years on mine. I’ve moved across the country and a lot of previous employers have closed for good.
Better yet, don't bother putting dates on education.
@@Tie509Agreed...I leave dates off special industry related courses and formal education and only keep years on for dates in the employment section.
@@kneel1same, although my challenge is that my 1st employer out of college is where I remained for 20 years before moving along
Yes, it is ok. I just quit a job a couple of weeks ago. I have 13 yrs of straight employment before that. I was only there for 3 months. It was a shitty retail job for a small store. The manager was OCD about every little detail. Plus they had promised me more hours, originally. They had cut me down to 15 hrs a week. I told them I can't make this work. So I quit. 🙂 I just applied to a couple real jobs. I left this one off my resume.
Looking at it as a billboard as opposed to a job list is great advice. Thank you.
I had a job coach tell me its ok to not have a job you don’t want to talk about on your resume. (I didn’t want to talk about a very toxic fast food job I had)
The food was probably literally toxic also
@@ngkngk875 yeah I got yelled at for trying to wash the raw chicken off the pans… wouldn’t drink the tea either
@@inudigifan201 heh I got yelled at because I was making pancakes too small on my first day at McD's; even at 17 I had less-than-stellar thoughts about certain managers and management in general. Guy's long dead by now anyway.
Or driving Uber on the side to make rent
OF COURSE ITS OK! you owe nothing to nobody, especially if there’s a valid reason to exclude it.
Yes. I’ve found most companies do not search deep enough.
I just left a job that was a complete waste of time. I knew six months in that it was a mistake, but I'm related to the owner so I kinda felt obligated, like I was helping him in a way. I was there almost two years and finally had enough, don't make the mistake I did, if a job feels like a dead end or you just aren't happy update your resume and abandon ship.
On your CV instead of EXPERIENCE put done SELECTED EXPERIENCE and list what is relevant. Its the same logic as for training courses / certifications - instead of listing everything you done you just list what is relevant.
Correct, but eventually someone in the organization will see most of where an applicant has been, and will need to be volunteered information, at some point in the hiring process, by applicant
Based on first hand experience, I can say with confidence, that not listing employment dates or over-summarizing a resume, can now be considered an “omission” because of how some employers are interpreting the information provided by background checks conducted by ADP SAAS and Equifax Workforce Solutions (some HR departments have been directed by management to use both at the same time to produce a composite employment history which is then interpreted by the employers staff, not ADP or from Equifax “The Work Number database”).
I’ve had to formally appeal and correct multiple errors with these background check services, over the last 5 years, during onboarding as a new hire and also for annual “integrity checks” to keep my job.
Note, this is something new that employers are doing now. I’ve never had to conduct an investigation and dispute with the findings of a background checker, ever in my career previously.
Sure you can, I have and never had issues
I did 3 miserable months at a nonprofit. They fired me and it wasnt until much later i realized they were protecting themselves from a lawsuit and I missed the opportunity.
Wise advice as always Sir!! When I was 17, quit a grocery store job less than graciously. My boss had bullied me for two years, so on my last day, I finally snapped. I grabbed the phone, and proceeded to make a profane rant over the store's PA system. I made light of her weight problem, and continued to cuss her out over the speaker system, with a store full of customers and fellow employees. This was inherently foolish of me. Prior to that incident, I had been a model employee. The customers loved me, as did my coworkers and the upper management of the store. I would have absolutely received a positive recommendation up to that point, but threw it all away for less than a minute of enjoyment. Needless to say, I left that job off my resume.
Yup totally. You are the captain of your destiny
I had an HR interviewer advise me to put all my work history in my CV even though those jobs weren’t pertinent nor relevant to the work experience for the position being applied. Needless to say I still ended up not getting the job. I’ll continue to only list my relevant work experiences, thank you very much.
I was hired on Tuesday and then fired on Monday, so yes I’m leaving it off my resume since I was only there for 7 days
Please do share the story.
Nothing much to share, they just decided to end my job 7 days in. The person said no reason was necessary since it was within my first 90 days and just sent me off
@@Sharpshooter649 Yeah fuck those people
If it's at-will, then yes. But still, they should tell you why.
Similar. Started on Monday, the guy that hired me went out of town on Tues, they cancelled his project on Wed, his boss told me to leave on Thurs.
I can't believe some people are asking this question...heck yeah it's okay! I took a management job, sold my house, moved to a different city for it...only to quit at lunch time 6 weeks later LOL. I've never been asked about that job. In fact, I took the following 7 months to self study and get into a different field (tech altogether)...via UA-cam. I've never had any one ask about that 8 month gap, either.
In this age of project hires, a person with years of experience will rack up lots of companies. To keep a resume at two pages, it's necessary to leave irrelevant jobs off in order to highlight more detail that better relate to the job you're applying for.
Yes being selective is the right word ! If you don’t want to get questioned on it DO NOT PUT IT ON YOUR RESUME lol
Your employer is like the IRS. Dont give more information than needed to prevent an audit.
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Careers are a private club for a small percentage of people
95 percent of workers don't have careers anymore, just jobs.
I love the “other relevant experience” section! I once was prepared to sign on to an LLC with three other parties. Six months into our planning and preparation, one backed out and made it so the rest of us had to as well. I don’t include this on my resume since I never held an official title, but those six months were critical to my current communication and planning capabilities, and the knowledge I gained proves invaluable in every aspect of my life now
I usually take off some jobs that are pointless like seasonal jobs. Unless they’re fun jobs I wanna talk about like gardening or farming.
If I need to look like I been working I usually add seasonal jobs just to say hey I’m hustling and am a good worker ever since graduatin college.
Do they check?
Yes. It’s also ok to make up jobs to fill the dates for the ATS.
I don't include my initial (very successful) 20+ year sales experience. I left for my sanity and moved into more "project management" positions. I only include the last ~12 years on my resume as it's most relevant to my current pursuits and, frankly, at 56 years old I am trying to remove an immediate ageist rejection.
This is a way to combat ageism.
Hiring teams are easily confused except during salary negotiation 😂
If a job is too old and doesn't really align with your new skills then yes, it is perfectly fine. I know software engineers who have been working in the industry since the 90s and they don't list their 20 y/o jobs. I've worked in fast food and obviously I never list that in my resume.
On a related note, how do you address the mental wellness sabbatical - unemployment hole in a resume?
@@milos_radovanovic You can prolly just lie and say you did some extensive traveling.
Thank you! I worked for a company that treated (almost) everyone there like s*** - there was yet another negative review on Glassdoor a week ago. I leave this off my resume because the old HR person very likely wrote very negative things about me before she was fired.
I worked at the Veterans Administration for three months shy of my probationary period and it was a horrible, traumatic experience. They didn't provide adequate training or detailed information about the daily job and schedule expectations. Those folks couldn't ever evaluate my skills and experience. I don't include it on my resume.
And people want these parasitic government organizations to still be funded.....smh we are a complete joke
Background check companies are usually only verifying what you wrote on the application. Several years back, I had a job that lasted 6 weeks when I quit due to a personality conflict with the hiring manager. Never put it on my resume and was never questioned about it by future employer background checks.
Talk for yourself.
Are you American?
I am not... And jobs come in my background, since I was on a work visa seven years ago. One is still in a contentious issue and I am obligated to mention it, since it comes up in the crappy immigration & Mexican Social Security system...
Not at all true in comprehensive background checks, which are common at bigger companies. They'll find everything.
@@JustMe99999 how would they find out about a job if you don’t tell them about it
@@josephpatti4575 They find out, trust me. I left one off of my resume at a company that did a comprehensive background check (using Orange) and it found the job. Fortunately I was able to explain it to their HR.
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I have left several stupid gap jobs off my resume' who cares the better jobs i have interviewed for never found out
I've ditched 2 awful experiences from my CV. I was being asked in subsequent interviews why I had so many job changes in such a short period of time. I can't and shouldn't have to take responsibility for every rubbish company out there.
3:35 my situation is a little interesting, I was in a long term position until April ‘22, then took a new role at a different company for 6 months before being laid off for nearly a year.
The job was relevant to roles I was applying for, but was a slight step down in position title and I didn’t have much impact in that amount of time. Debated keeping it on (for the work history) or leaving it off (reverse mobility & no impact during time).
Yes you can
Yea the ATS probably doesn't want to know I worked for a cleaning service and retail to help me get me through school and I'm applying for a cybersecurity role. If the hiring manager asks I'll tell them.
I've left Jobs off my resume before.. No one's ever found out, come to me, and said Why did you never mention this? What I'm wondering though-- what do you do with jobs that no longer exist? Like the company still exists, but your specific location/manager/ area is gone? For example, I did camera room/loss prevention at Dillard's for a time, but the store is gone. The mall is knocked down. The mangers are God knows where.
If the company still exist it’s fine, if u were to put it in your resume u can still speak about your experience working there.
I would still put the old location I’m sure the employer / interviewer can find out what happened if they really wanted too
I just wouldn’t use them as a reference if you cannot locate the manager anymore or whoever
i left out mostly my fast food jobs when i first started working in my early 20s and i’m almost 40 now. is that bad? i have about 5 jobs in my resume currently
Yes, generally companies are only looking for 5-8 years of employment history
Works for me.
Yes, you can. Majority of the interviewers don't give an F about your whole job history. They'll only focus on the latest ones and those who have relation to the job offer. Also, my last job was in July as a consortium seller. I was there just for a week. It was an awful experience, so not worth having it in my resume
Is it a good idea to put a security alert on your The Work Number profile so no one can look at your work history without your permission?
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I sure as heck don't put my teenage fast food work on my resume as a data analyst.
I left several things I've left off the resume. It's better to be succinct than exhaustive.
Why would I include my short time working in a boiler room for a mortgage lender on my resume when the last few positions I've held were either in contract or proprietary security? Not related and yep, you're first point.
Well Im taking double naught spy of my resume. I'm currently in the process of retraining. I just received a Copy of Brain Surgery for Dummies, however I'm keeping my options open for monster truck driver.
I left a few jobs off my cv , I left a job which lasted three days which was an employment agency at a company, I left that off , as I was let go, not suitable. I always try to fill gas in my cv, short term , short temporary jobs are okay if it got some skills you have picked up., most the companies I worked for are not around now, and agencies change names. or two merged into one
If it ain’t related to your career choice you can.
If they require you to enter 7 years of employment you might have to.
If life happens to you. Its always your fault and will work against you.
It took me a lot of explanation to do if I include them. Leave them out. If it leaves a few month gap, so be it.
If the companies are looking for someone who never had a gap in the resume and immediately start a new job, you don’t need it anyways.
It is 100% ok
Do you have any videos on job gaps? I had to stop working for a year due to my son being deathly ill. And its been hard to get a job with such a large gap in employment. Any advice?
If you're at the same company but took some roles or worked on some teams that were not so good and wanted to exclude those, would the background check be able to determine that on the application?
I've had a few jobs that were very short term. I've left those off and any jobs that are not relevant to the position I am looking for.
Thank you, everyone, for your advice and for sharing your views, I appreciate it.👍
You're very welcome
My first 3 jobs were contracts that lasted 4 months, 8 months, and 4 months(technically FTE but ended do to me not being a good fit) respectively. 14 years later, needless to say these are off of my resume for good and out of memory 😀
I have no idea how to do this selection correctly. My resume is all over the place. Then, my LinkedIn never matches my resume.
I'm not sure how I'd remove a toxic job that I had for too long off my resume (that was more than a decade of my life that I won't get back). Then again my late grandfather foretold me years ago that there will come many twists and turns and that many opportunities will arise. While I'm working a job I generally like, I'm still not over the post trauma of my previous, toxic job that I was looked down on a lot.
I'll never forget this job I applied to where after I filled out the application, I was given this form that asked me if I had left off any positions on my application and below it said they can check with The SSA to see all the jobs you've had.
Sounds more like a way to scare you than that they were actually going to check, but yes, this is definitely not a fool-proof concept. Most companies probably won't. Similar to that, I remember talking to a friend of mine who ran a company of about 30 employees, and he said he was asks for salary verification. I'd never heard of this,but apparently it's way of actually finding out if what you say you made on your previous job is actually what you were paid.
@kevinmach730 Yeah, this was about 20-25 years ago when I applied. I have never seen anything like that on any applications since then.But you're right it was probably there as a scare tactic.
@@kevinmach730salary verification in 2024?
They were full of shit!
I was fired after two weeks and never included it on a resume or application. Seven years later I was working as a temporary employee at that company in another state and they wanted to hire me, so in that case I told what had happened because they would find out anyway, even though I had since married and changed my name. They hired me anyway.
Will companies reject you before looking at your resume? I ask because these online applications are very time consuming and it’s redundant to fill out job information, school and certs already on your resume.
Would you tell a recruiter all the jobs you've worked? I was at a job a few months ago that I quit recently. It had nothing to do with my other professional jobs. If I leave that job off my resume will look like I haven't worked for a year.
I think either you liked it or not, every experience we had opportunities to work on, are adding up to you as an individual and therefore, every little helps nothing is wasted time.
Hi, I have a slightly related question. Soon I will be interviewing for a job I am slightly underqualified for on paper, but considering I come from within the team I am a desired candidate. I expect an offer. Our company works in scales, so the scale is set. The question is: Am i still in a position to negotiate? I know other similar jobs want me and would pay more than the bottom of the range, but I am afraid i will not be able to counter the argument that it is a huge step up either way. How would you do this? Thanks in advance for your or any other commenter's reply!
Update, did not get the job
Hello. The removing a filler job strategy sounds usful. However, it well not matter if I have a 4 month gap between one job experience to another?
I've left several lackluster jobs off my resume, and just explained the gaps with 'freelance work'. No one's ever asked further.
8 minutes and 17 seconds to say "YES"
If you also do some side work while working a full time job should you include the side job in your resume? Would the hiring manager think that you are not dedicated to your main full-time job because you also have a side gig such as consulting?
What about if the job I want to leave off is my current position? It doesn’t add value to my career, and I just took it to close the employment gap after a 1.5 year sabbatical. Please advise.
I would normally say "SURE" but in my experience the irrelevant job is less important than a time gap, ESPECIALL with government or contractors who require EVERY time window to be work or school.
A few times I've left jobs off my resume.
I was fired from 2 jobs due to personality conflict with management. Not due to anything I did. I never put that I was fired. I work in a field that’s always looking for bodies so I always managed to get job by the next week. I only put month and years worked. And that I left the position. Interviewer almost never asked why I left. And I don’t offer the information. When they do ask I say that it wasn’t a good fit.
Question: Does the airline industry legally need a 10 year employment history? if so where would I see this on the law books?
The answer is only if it’s old.
I had a coworker who hid a bunch of stuff on their resume. Turns out he was fired from those jobs and was trying to hide his incompetence.
He was promptly fired again because of it. Had he been honest about his experience we might have not taken such drastic measures because management didn’t want to do it. But the manipulation is what got him fired as they could no longer trust him.
If you have experience, I wouldn't go back more than 10 years. Leave the irrelevant jobs off. Describe what you did in terms of the difference you made. A résumé isn't a job history. It's a customized marketing tool. You want to convince an employer that you understand who they are, what they do, and that you can solve their problem (job opening usually means there's something not getting done in a timely manner). A résumé should also be a living document that's always current and ready to customize. If you're laid off or you spot a good opportunity, you're ready.
I did because it was an under the table HVAC job and I honestly don't remember that employer's contact info. Also it was more than 10 years old which airlines don't care about and neither does the TSA & Customs (for airport credential background checks). Both groups only want the last 10 years of your history.
Well if I'm applying for a job in infosec, I'm not going to list my first job flipping burgers when I was 16..
I always let jobs out of my resume.
As a youth, I always had a summer job. I started at 14. Should I put those jobs in my resume? Absolutely not!
Then I worked as a machinist (lathe operator) while I was studying to become an automotive engineer. Should I put that job in my resume? Absolutely!
Do I have a choice? Can I let those jobs out, when I'm going to apply for an engineer position at the same plant? They already have my employment records.
After working for about 7-8 years as automotive engineer, I switched to software development for more money (double salary actually). Back in my country, Romania, everything was hunky dory with these sort of career changes. It was normal. When you complete some sort of technical post-secondary education in Romania you are supposed to know programming, because no one accepts "hand calculation". Most of the time. you must build a program that does the calculation. That's how it works. So, yeah, switching from various technical fields to computing is like Monday in Romania. No one sees any problem.
The problem arrived after I immigrated to Canada. Employers seem to have an issue with you switching from a management position to a simple developer job.
It does not sound right to 9 people out of 10. No one can comprehend how can you give up on such "amazing" position for a simple one, where leadership skills are not required.
I have been asked to explain countless times, at every interview, all my past decisions. I got tired, so, I removed all those "outrageous" positions from my resume. That did the trick.
I got multiple offers. People thought that I was like 10 years younger. However, they can find your previous jobs, no matter how hard you try to hide them.
Two of my employers asked me to agree to a background check when I got the job. I agreed, and they found out.
There are companies specialized in background checks, they do the job and sell the records to whoever asks and presents your background check agreement with the photo ID.
I was contractor that worked off and on for a government office. I took an oath to uphold certain statutes and to report violations of these. When I reported them I was removed from the department (telling me I did wrong by reporting) and transferred elsewhere and they did not renew my contract. How do I address this on a resume/interview?
I always do. I'm looking for a certain job. If some of my past jobs aren't related of the job search I'm doing I always leave out. I never leave anything in the resume that will lose track of the reader that are reading hundreds of resume. So I never jot down jobs not relied to that job search. So the reader of my resume won't be looking for the no pile.
Early here!
If the job I had doesn’t fit the type of job I’m pursuing, I leave it off. Unless, of course, I don’t have much else.
I was fired in 2004 from the first full-time job related to my degree that I ever had. I was in that job for two years and left the industry for two years after that.
This job, and the stopgap jobs I held for the next two years, have not appeared on my resume for a long time now. No employer I’ve spoken with since has cared enough to bring them up.
if I included every job, I should also include unpaid volunteering that were harder than any job Ive ever had, and if I did that my resume would be 5 pages long.
I have a question, and your experience could help. I've worked as a talent acquisition manager in a small consultant firm in hometown, from 2020-24, then moved to a bigger town to get a job in a corporation of 400-500 people as a recruiter, should that be mentioned or not ?
Ive done it in the past, its a resume not an autobiography
Might be a problem if it leaves a long gap in your timeline.
Can you leave a graduate degree off you're resume, if you are being called "overqualified"?
Sure. Why not?
You can definitely do this. No one is going to check to verify educational levels beyond those required by the job.That being said, I have been in situations where I probably should have done this. One job in particular, they interviewed me 3 different times over 6 months and eventually hired me because the 2-3 people they hired instead didn't work out. I found that tibit out about a year later into my employment there, and also found out part of the reason they were hesitant to hire me because my education / work experience- they thought I would quit the second something better came along, when in reality I was just looking for a less demanding role (of course, I never told them this at any point in the interview, you don't want to admit that).
In short. Can you leave it off your resume? yes. But during an in-depth background check someone CAN ask when you started/ended work. So be prepared to explain any gaps or inconsistencies.
My resume goes back 45 years. When I was applying for government jobs, they wanted resume with every job you have ever had on it. Really? You want to know about my paper route in 1974?
So I sort of summarized several jobs in college and shortly before going into the military...no one has EVER asked.
Is Résumé Rocketfuel on CD-ROM? I tried looking in stores for that box but couldn't find it.
You can leave jobs off your application also. If they don't know you worked at a company they wont know to talk to them about you working for that company. Its not like they are going to call random companies to see if you worked for them. But you will have to say you where unemployed during that time period which could be far worse as companies really frown on periods of unemployment.
Ok so it would be especially helpful if you can help me and others out here. I work in IT and in that comes a lot of contract work. After completing the application, the data will typically port over to the background check company (e.g. ADP, etc.).
For example say I was contracted by "Recruiters R US" to work at Amazon for a one-year contract. I worked for Amazon... not Recruiters R US. How should we put this down on an application. Lately I've been putting down things like Company1: Amazon (Contract via Recruiters R US). is that correct? I lost a job offer back in May 2020 because of this (during the pandemic when I was laid off for MONTHS).
Nobody told me what I should put down so when they contacted a previous company they said "We don't have record he worked for us", as they (and others) only look at full-time employees. That honestly started my disdain of HR. The offer was rescinded almost immediately and I didn't do anything wrong.
I put name of company/client - name of staffing agency/contracting company. It's as simple as this.
I once left a job after two weeks after finding a rejected candidate who I had sent there from a staffing agency was hired directly without paying me a fee. I do not put this employer on a resume. Years later, a financial institution, known to do extensive background checks, questioned me hard about why I’d lie on my resume and why I was there only two weeks. I told them the job was misrepresented and moved on, which seemed to satisfy HR. Unfortunately, I’ve had no choice but to take a position below my capabilities due to long economic recession in banking. I cannot leave it off my resume since I had to stay several years. Work at a lower salary or stay unemployed and widen the job gap, or be thankful for the lower opportunity. I have no doubt this has hurt my career.
Lol I have an uncomfortable truth for you. You don't have a career, you never did. You've had JOBS. Most of us don't have careers anymore, it's all about money and freedom.
Do you also leave the job off your resume off your LinkedIn profile too?
I left out 3 jobs from my resume (short-term jobs that were not the right fit for me in the beginning of my career). I only include jobs that would add value and give credence to my career trajectory and highlights my experience and skills.