HRs dont share this info , 
Actually they cannot even verify your salary with previous HRs.

It will always be mentioned as resignation

Software Engineer

Software Developer

Nope. Background verification is just making sure , you were there as an employee. HR will say only resignation/experience letters.

Data engineer

Will the previous recruiter that fired you mention that you were fired if the new recruiter asks them for a background check? or it is always mentioned as resignation?   Also, during interviews wha...

Will the previous recruiter that fired you mention that you were fired if the new recruiter asks them for a background check? or it is always mentioned as resignation? 

Also, during interviews what is advisable? covering it up as resignation or being honest?

Can the new recruiter know that you were fired?

Can the new recruiter know that you were fired?- Grapevine

Hello, i was recently asked to resign from my job with no notice period. What should i be saying and explain this in my interviews?

Recently asked to resign

My employment was terminated last month from the organization’s side but they have put things like “his performance was average” & “he left the organization in his own accord” in the relieving cum experience letter. 

I am not much worried about the performance part because I have good experience letters from my past organizations and believe would be the same in case of reference checks.  Should I be worried about these?

Any suggestions on how to move forward with future applications would be helpful.

Laid off last month and negative relieving letter

Product Manager

Welcome to IT Company Discussion's Private Community

It's been a year and a month since I've been unemployed.
I had a chronic illness which lasted for 2.5 years ( yes I was working when I was sick - worst decision of my life ) .

I recovered from it in September 2023, since then I've been looking for new jobs in frontend domain.
In my previous role , I was working as a support engineer for a service based company but wanted to work in frontend. During my illness period I also joined a cohort and also did a certification in React development.

Now, when I apply for jobs, I'm getting no calls, when I do get calls from recruiters, they ask about my career gap I tell them everything that happened. After the call they just ghost me.

How am I supposed to justify my career gap so that I can proceed further with the interview?
Do I lie about it and say that I did freelancing, I've heard most people do these kinds of things when they have to justify any kind of career gap.

How do I justify my career gap?

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

I have been recently laidoff. month end is my last working day. Should I tell recruiters that I have been laid off? Or should I not . If not, how can I hide it?

Need help with job search strategy

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

What are some of the questions related to labour law in India that you always wanted to know (probably something that your HR may not explicitly tell you) - Ask here!

Labour Laws that you always wanted to know

I took a career break due to health issues of my mom. when i resigned i was able to get few offers but didn't join as i was needed at home. this is around 2 months back

now i'm back looking for new roles. should i mention this in my resume? like the company names of offers i got back then ? any views how to navigate this coming back to job market.  also what about compensation, should i expect them to match the earlier offers or expect some hike on this

Career break advice

Program Manager

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

Context- https://share.gvine.app/f9px4N8yWVNYJA1a9

Thanks to everyone who responded! I am super stressed cz of the situation and counting on the community because i’ve got nowhere else to turn to. It’s going to be a long post, but please keep up if you think you can remotely find a solution to this🙏🏻

In my post, I mentioned that my relieving letter states the date as "Dec," as verbally communicated by my ex-employer. However, today when I requested the letter from HR, they went back on their words and they indicated it would show October to align with their records for audits which would otherwise create a discrepancy since my final settlement was in October.

Now, my resume states my experience until December, prompting questions during interviews about why I left in December. 
However, for background verification form that i had to urgently submit today, I listed my last working date as October because supporting docs will mention october only and i was out of time & options. 

1. Will this two-month discrepancy on my resume cause significant issues? Are the dates in resume and BGV form matched? If not, whats given more preference?

2. How do I explain the advance payment reflected in my payslip? If the new org comes to label it as severance pay, I lack evidence to prove otherwise, especially since my resignation was verbal.

3. Will my new manager come to know of the disparity between my resume and BGV data?

4. ⁠I need to provide last 3 months payslips and i told new HR I'm seeking payslips for November and December. Now, My ex-employer can't provide them as well since payment was earlier. How do I cover up and offer payslips to HR for Aug-Sep-Oct instead? How do I explain the Oct payslip discrepancy mentioned in point 3?

Thank you again everyone, and i advance. Looking forward to a way out from this mess🙏🏻

Update- ex-org screwed up BGV data

Need some help with Background verification in a MNC.

In my past experience:

- I got laid off on May 2020
- in July 2020 I got a job, did not like it and left early by Sept 2020 
- I joined a new company on Oct 2020 

In my resume , I have skipped this experience and mentioned other dates correctly. I didn't think it would be relevant!

1. Experience  A - Till May 2020
2. Experience C - from Oct 2020 - ..

1. Would this be a problem for background verification?
2. Should I inform the HR about this ?

Background verification process

Background,
I got laid off from an organisation and by god's grace I had a offer, which was not that good 10% decrement in salary, but me being a scared person joined the company.

Now 1 month after I realised I can do much better and market seems to open up.

What should I tell the HR in 2 scenarios.

1. I had already started Interviewing and haven't mentioned that I was layed off. What should I tell if I get selected? 

2. If a opportunity comes to start Interviewing for seperate company, should I mention about ty current company or no?

PS. The work in current organisation is not that good and it's a contractual role.

Need advice on what to say to HR of new company .

Need guidance please.
2022 passout. 
Currently working as a Cybersecurity Analyst, the project is more like a Technical Support Role. Have to connect with the user and troubleshooting in their laptop if issue required. Here I have to work in 3 different shifts like for morning 5.30 am or from night 9pm to 6.30 am or at afternoon from 2pm and it's changing weekly. And also have to report to the office now in those timings. 
I want to change the domain to different role like backend or frontend or in the same domain I want to switch to a different company.
Is it good to resign without having any other selection ( I am good to sit without any company for 2-3 months)?

If I resign and will sit for 3-4 months without working in any company, does the next company which I will apply for interviews or openings, will not allow me to sit in their interviews? Or would not go with my resume?
And what could else I have to face .


Need truthful guidance.

Need guidance for my career

Cybersecurity

Recently i got laid off. Now that i start appearing for interviews should i make it explicit i was laid off and i am ready to join immediately. Or should I state something else as the reason of a break that might be there post 1st April ?

Should I admit to the recruiter, that i got laid off

I was talking to one of the Navi recruiters and she became uninterested once I told her I was recently impacted by the layoff and can join within a few weeks.
I mean it's funny how they don't want to interview immediate joiners who are impacted by the restructuring.
I'm surprised as other company recruiter eyes lit up knowing I can join immediately but navi finds it disgusting.

Funny incident with navi

Had a similar experience with udaan in 2022. Later the recruiter itself got laid off 💀

Business Analyst

[TL;DR former National quiz champion(covered on TV and newspapers)dropped out of B. Tech in 2020 during peak of addiction and depression . Got over it and sober in Jan'23, resumed college and completed my B. Tech in Feb'24. Picked up coding again and feel ready for a job now Should I be honest or lie about the gap? Been ghosted my few recruiters whom I was honest with.]

JS developer here. I used to be a decent student, public speaker and one of the best quizzers in the college scene. Made it to TV shows and featured in newspapers articles. But I never addressed some traumatic events that took place in my life before I turned 16. My depression took refuge in substance abuse and I abandoned all studies/career prospects during the pandemic. Eventually after 7 years of using, I got clean/sober in Jan'23 and resumed my studies. I earned my degree but on paper it took me 8 years to complete a 4 year B. Tech (2016-24).

Reasonably I get asked about the gap in my academics by hr/recruiters whom I push my CV to. I've been dead honest to them about my struggles with mental health and addiction in the past. And I've been getting ghosted. (It could be because of skill reasons on my part but I'm not even getting a feedback).

Should I not tell recruiters the truth about the gap? Should I leave the addiction bit out? How should I word it? I've never held a real coding job before but been slogging for the last 6 months to get better each day (my github and projects will reflect that). Please help me out with all your valuable suggestions. If you're a tech recruiter let me know how you would perceive my case.

Should I be honest about my past struggles of depression/addiction with recruiters while explaining the 4 year gap in my resume?

Is it better to resign or getting fired from work? Does it come up in background checks later?

Which is better to resign or getting fired from work?

I officially left my previous organization in October 2023, but I actually worked until December 2023. 
I was going through a financial emergency and requested them to pay November and December month salaries in October itself, to which they complied, and did my entire full n final clearance in October itself.

Unfortunately, the finance team made errors: my end of service date in the PF account is listed as October, and there were no tax deductions nor PF paid for November and December, also causing issues with my pay slips. My experience letter correctly states my last working month as December. I've tried to rectify the situation by asking my previous organization to update my end of service date, but due to the missing PF deductions, it will not be possible.

Now i am joining a new org and i am afraid i will fail the background check cz of all this and they are demanding for last 3 months payslips while i have payslip only for october which includes Salary till December under “other prerequisite” 

Please advice on a way out.

Urgent help for background check requirements

Hi guys I was let go last week of June because project did not go well and company didn't have bydgets. Entire team was let go. However when interviewing in last week of June I mentioned to the hr my project is not going well and can leave anytime and I didn't mentioned already I have finished my role. They might offer me a job now in July. I didn't basically tell HR at the start on this. Will I still be ok?  If i show my resignation and last day as same because my previous company mentioned that it will reflect in my experience letter, will it be an issue?

Need opinion urgently layoff

Growth Manager

Really need some unique, kickass suggestions

What questions do you usually ask to the interviewer about the firm?

Got impacted in a layoff in Jan. Found a job in 3 months and took up whatever I got.
Now I wish to move from here, because of stability, layoffs happening here also, I haven't been impacted yet. A very small company.

Do I indicate my layoff in my resume by quoting Layoff or let them figure it out by the work period gap?

Resume post Layoff

Welcome to Business Roles's Private Community

Context: 10.5 YOE, Marketing lead. I've been looking for a switch since September last year. I'd seen signs of maybe my role or the company itself folding very early and knew 'twas time to bolt. But it's not that easy. Back then - 1 year in a startup meant hey not bad, people still spoke to you and considered your profile. These days, they treat you like Ebola if you've not had your ass stuck in the same place for 3-5 years. 

Anyway, so the majority of my time searching for jobs was the shitty Easy Apply or IIMJOBS premium account route. Suprise suprise. It doesn't work. But hey I was still employed and not nearly as motivated as someone who's unemployed. 

Cut to layoffs: Got laid off with my whole team and a huge chunk of other leaders. My first layoff, felt hilariously like the last day of school. To the org's credit they gave us 3 month severance, leave encashments and extra months for those who'd been there for 2 years+. In hindsight hearing the horror stories of 2k severance from Byju's. I'm grateful for the nice golden parachute I got. I'll be honest, it contributed heavily to my mental stability. I had time, I had leverage, I didn't have to run for the first shitty opportunity that came my way. 

The How I did it (why you struggled through the above stream of consciousness) 

- Wrote to 159 founders with one pagers to 35 of them with ideas on how i'd lead their marketing function. 5 replies. 3 interviews. 2 offers - didn't take em cuz they were super early stage or diff cities. This is immediately in month 1 so I've already started feeling icky about not getting great brands to have in my set. 
- Easy Applied to 768 (I ran a Gmail search, this is a real number) jobs. 99% no responses or you've been rejected. 
-Kept changing one letter on my Naukri.com profile, got me 6 calls, 3 interviews and 1 conversion 

I think theres a word limit to posts 🥲 following up as comments below.

Finally got a job (here's the do's and dont's)

Part 3 
  
 - Add HRs and hiring managers on LinkedIn, send them free ideas and strategies. Its ok if they steal them it meant they were great. One of them will refer you, remember you or hire you. 
 - Have a CV and a summary (half a page) that gets people excited about wanting to read the CV. Only areas of expertise and bullet points for results  
 - Don't put the OpentoWork filter on your LinkedIn DP. Its radioactive. I know people actively avoid those profiles. But make sure to keep open to work beacon on for recruiters. It pushes you ahead  
 - Dont post low effort i need a job because im laid off, i dont have money, copy pasted by millions on Linkedin. If you're gonna publically ask for a job, make sure that post has enuff of your skillset screaming for a potential hirer to want to explore more. Else you'll get velle gadhe typing CFBR 
 - Dont be anal or choosy about interviewing, i literally gave 35-50 in 3 months that culminated in 4 offers. Each one taught me something, heck ive spoken to startups with 7 peeps in it  
 - The only one that can negotiate CTC is the one that can walk away. When the offer i wanted finally came, my fixed went down a tad, but variable increased. The role was worth it so i didnt bother negotiating. Places i wasnt excited about - oh i quoted 30% hikes and got it at one place :p

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