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| *Ostroff, Fair and Company>>>Other - Careers & Employment |
Should I be honest with my work experience? |
I just graduated and have started applying for jobs. I wrote my own resume, and I'm not sure if I should be 100% honest with my work experience. I worked only for a week at a company and that was one year before I graduated and that was the last time I worked. I have to put it on my resume since it is one of the only work experiences I ever had. For now I have it as a two month period (yes, I lied). But if they do the background check, I am afraid they might find out. What should I do? be honest at this point in your life. what you could do is call that place you worked at and ask about your employment and if they have the reocrds of it, or have a friend call like they were verifying employment. some places have high turnover and there may be no one there who remembers you or where the records are kept. Source(s): poob Okay you must mean you are graduating high school not college. Here is the easy fix. Never lie on your resume. You can leave things out but dont lie. Just leave out the part that you have work experience. ie no background check, there isnt anything to check. 1 week or 2 months work exp does nothing for a company. Lying will get your **** fired. Just leave it blank. If they ask if you have worked in your interview, you say I mowed some lawns, I shovelled my nieghbors driveway, I started this job that I didnt want. Nothing of importants so I didnt list it. They will move on to the next question. ***** UPDATE ****** Be very general, Say something like this. I was focused on college and my education. My work experience includes things such as working at my families company, I worked with community in the past, Ive worked and provided services to help people. It can be extremely broad. Helping the lady across the street to me is better work exp then 1 week and McDonalds. Hired for fortune 500 companies if you are going to list it, be honest. if they do a check on your references, they are going to find out and you will NOT get hired. as long as you left on fairly good terms (ex- "hey this job isn't for me" vs... just not showing up). chances are they won't check considering you were only there a week. Your best bet is to write a functional resume that highlights your skills versus a chronological resume that highlights your work history. A functional resume is great for people who have been out of work for a long period of time and recent grads. http://jobstar.org/tools/resume/tempfun.... http://www.quintcareers.com/resume_sampl... http://www.quintcareers.com/resume_sampl... http://content.monster.com/articles/3476... Key note...never lie because many companies do check backgrounds and references. Not all but you wouldn't want to be out of the race before you even get an interview do you? ex career counselor |
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