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Change your resume to show which years you were at a job. Leave the months off. e.g.: Assistant to the Regional Manager, Dunder-Mifflin, 2009-2023 A 10-month
by joezydeco 3y ago
Change your resume to show which years you were at a job. Leave the months off.
e.g.: Assistant to the Regional Manager, Dunder-Mifflin, 2009-2023
A 10-month gap will be invisible. You'll see. Then, next step, never mention it in an interview.
- dudul 3y agoAnd hope that either the new job doesn't run a background check or doesn't care about the discrepancy (very likely once you reach this point of the pipeline, but you never know).
- joezydeco 3y agoWas the resume lying? What's the discrepancy? If they want exact dates of employment then by all means give it to them. If they ask during the interview, tell them. I have never seen an interview cycle get that picky about dates. If you really want an unethical life protip, tell them you were caring for a sick family member. Do you think they'll press on that button?
- JohnFen 3y agoWhat discrepancy? I've been omitting months for a very, very long time and have gone through numerous background checks from different companies. Never once has omitting months been a problem or even something anyone wanted clarification about. I'm not saying anything that isn't accurate. I'm just rounding off irrelevant detail, no different than omitting the exact day that I started and ended each job. Nobody cares about what month you started and ended, unless your employment lasted less than a year, maybe.
- jjgreen 3y agoYou should probably do this in any case, including months in employment periods is a bit like saying "I'm seven and a half!" when someone asks your age.
- JohnFen 3y agoI haven't put months on my resume in decades, for this reason.
- aaronrobinson 3y agoThis is terrible advice. Don’t do this.