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Q: Is it unprofessional to leave a new job where everything is a mess? A: No. Notes: personally I would have either abandoned it during the first month or at
by _odey 5y ago
Q: Is it unprofessional to leave a new job where everything is a mess?
A: No.
Notes: personally I would have either abandoned it during the first month or at the end of the probation period, depending on severity, otherwise I'd force myself to stick around for the year, so I wouldn't get questions during further interviews for why I stayed there only X months. A "hack" would be to endure until somewhere in January next year and then in your CV write only the years of employment like this:
2018 - 2021 Old boring job.
2021 - 2022 Shitshow job (but don't actually write anything bad in the CV about them, only positives).
2022 - present Awesome new job.
If you write it with the number of months, some (not all) recruiters and hiring managers will get suspicious. I've personally had people (colleagues at previous employers, but also random people at random meetups) tell me they trust people less if they see that on their CV, or even filter out such CVs early as they fear you'll do the same there, even though they had the same situation themselves when I checked their linkedin profiles.
I personally don't care at all about the month range when I conduct interviews, and if anybody brings that up I fight against it, as something I've learned from personal experience is this: most jobs suck, most employers suck, I've had to deal with some, everybody I know has dealt with such; then I switch the subject to what's really important: what can you actually do so we get to hire you.
- gregkerzhner 5y agoAn alternative to hacking your resume is simply leaving the short position off altogether. Your resume doesn't have to be a total transcript of your career. It should just be a highlight of most relevant experiences for your desired job. The same goes for really old jobs too btw - having a detailed explanation of your exploits in Java Swing on page 4 of your resume is likely distracting and irrelevant. Consider making your resume a single page with older jobs grouped together like "1999 - 2008 Various software gigs for Employers1 thorough Employer5"
- ianai 5y agoFurther, the first few months absolutely are a two way street on “fit”. Hopping out quickly shouldn’t be a red flag. Having 12 employers in 6 years could be a problem or even just standard for certain contractors. Also maybe something better came along.
- dgfitz 5y agoI would personally not want to explain the gap in employment. "Why did you not work for a year?" Either you lie (I took a personal leave of absence) or tell the truth (the company was a shitshow and I didnt stay long). I'm not big on lying, and if I tell the truth I'd expect to get "Well why did you leave it off the resume?" And from there I expect the conversation to go poorly.
- jon-wood 5y agoIt coming up at all is going to vary wildly between interviews. From my perspective your CV is what gets you into the interview process, and will come up in an initial screening call where I have a conversation with you about the last few years of work you've done. Unless you explicitly bring it up, or the work seems massively relevant to what we're doing, I'm unlikely to touch on anything more than a year or two into the past. Once you're through that initial screening call the only influence your CV is going to have is if our interview process covers particular things you've mentioned knowing about in your CV and then you can't answer questions on them when they come up. Not knowing a thing I'm generally fine with, claiming to know it but not being able to answer simple questions on it is going to get you screened out very quickly.