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Quit your job. Find another one. Leave your current one off your resume. Mark Suster talks about this here: http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/04/22/never

by calcsam 12y ago

Quit your job. Find another one. Leave your current one off your resume. Mark Suster talks about this here: http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/04/22/never-hire-job-hoppers-never-they-make-terrible-employees/ http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/04/22/never-hire-job... "If you worked somewhere for 6 months leave it out. It’s not worth it. Listing it is a negative and unless it was interning for Ted Kennedy or Ronald Reagan it’s most likely a liability. A resume does not require you to list absolutely everything you’ve ever done. Do not lie. If asked in an interview about the gap you can simply say, “I joined a company for 6 months that was a total mistake. I regretted it. I figured I didn’t accomplish enough to put it on my resume. Trying to make what I did there sound good on a resume would have been false."

partisan 12y ago
Agreed. I did a 6 week stint at a largish software company. When I saw what was going on there, I couldn't get out fast enough. That doesn't feature on my resume. I was 9 months at another job. That one I did put on my resume. Only once did I get a real sense that the interviewer was concerned about my job hopping history, but understood my reasons for leaving and at each point, I made sure to explain what I had learned from the experience and took responsibility for my role in it. Coincidentally or not, that is the job I stayed at the longest. They were filtering for candidates who would stay and grow at the company and created an environment that encouraged it. So, if you are looking to do this, have a really good reason and be sure to take a lesson from it as well as claim responsibility if you entered the role with unrealistic expectations.
kelnos 12y ago
Very much agreed with this. Try not to make a habit of this, though. One or two mistakes here and there is fine, but a pattern of successive "mistakes" will likely raise flags with interviewers. But for a single mistake? Whatever. Any interviewer who doesn't understand that is probably someone you don't want to work with anyway. A quick anecdote: I actually do have a 5-month stint at a company on my resume. In the end I decided that the product and culture wasn't a good fit for me, and I left, but I had already accomplished something worthwhile there in that time, and felt that it actually was a plus to list it. So overall, as the parent points out, it is entirely up to you what you feel is useful to list on your resume. Just don't lie, and if asked in person, tell it like it is.

by calcsam 12y ago

partisan 12y ago

Agreed. I did a 6 week stint at a largish software company. When I saw what was going on there, I couldn't get out fast enough. That doesn't feature on my resume. I was 9 months at another job. That one I did put on my resume. Only once did I get a real sense that the interviewer was concerned about my job hopping history, but understood my reasons for leaving and at each point, I made sure to explain what I had learned from the experience and took responsibility for my role in it. Coincidentally or not, that is the job I stayed at the longest. They were filtering for candidates who would stay and grow at the company and created an environment that encouraged it. So, if you are looking to do this, have a really good reason and be sure to take a lesson from it as well as claim responsibility if you entered the role with unrealistic expectations.

kelnos 12y ago

Very much agreed with this. Try not to make a habit of this, though. One or two mistakes here and there is fine, but a pattern of successive "mistakes" will likely raise flags with interviewers. But for a single mistake? Whatever. Any interviewer who doesn't understand that is probably someone you don't want to work with anyway. A quick anecdote: I actually do have a 5-month stint at a company on my resume. In the end I decided that the product and culture wasn't a good fit for me, and I left, but I had already accomplished something worthwhile there in that time, and felt that it actually was a plus to list it. So overall, as the parent points out, it is entirely up to you what you feel is useful to list on your resume. Just don't lie, and if asked in person, tell it like it is.