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Honest or Dumb..

  • 24-03-2009 1:18pm
    #1
    HashSlinging
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    Hypothetical Question For People Who Hire.

    You had a bad experience in a company - they fired you without warning based on bad performance.

    Would you include them on your CV? As you still learned something from the experience.

    On a CV would this look honest or would it look dumb.


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  • #2
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,431 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    Include it.

    If you have an unexplained gap, I'll assume you were in prison.


  • #3
    AARRRGH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,382 ✭✭✭✭AARRRGH


    I would not include it, or at least, include it but not use them as a reference.

    How long did you work there?


  • #4
    HashSlinging
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,412 ✭✭✭HashSlinging


    Ok so what happens at interview stage, would it not open a can of worms?

    IMO it would lead to a load of sidewinder questions.. How, What, When etc


  • #5
    HashSlinging
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,412 ✭✭✭HashSlinging


    Hypothetical question but lets base it on 3 months working in a company. What if you could get a good reference from a manager.


  • #6
    AARRRGH
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    The only problem is the reference. If you can get a good reference, then you have nothing to worry about.


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  • #7
    Nody
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    AARRRGH wrote: »
    The only problem is the reference. If you can get a good reference, then you have nothing to worry about.
    Well I'm almost in agreement with AArrrgh here, it would also require an explanation why you left. It will look a bit odd to leave a job after 3 months and have nothing after it or a gap there.


  • #8
    Maglight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 281 ✭✭Maglight


    HashSlinging wrote: »
    Hypothetical question but lets base it on 3 months working in a company. What if you could get a good reference from a manager.

    If it was only three months and a few jobs back, you can skip it. Lets assume that you spent at least a year in the job on either side, then you can you put in the years you worked there eg 2007 to 2008 for job 1 and 2008 to present for now, rather than May 2007 to April 2008 and Aug 2008 to now

    Three months is nothing. A year is harder to explain.


  • #9
    Capt'n Midnight
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    depends on how far you want to stretch the truth
    if it was very recent you could say you were made redundant, there is a lot of it about

    since it was only three months they don't really have to give you a reason
    if you were last in then you could explain it as last in / first out

    of course this is all moot if you use them as a reference and you feel they will dis you


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