Have you deleted any experience from your resume ? Why and how do you explain the gap?
I will go first, i have deleted my first company from my resume because even though i was very good at coding. They put me in a support project in graveyard shift. I faked illness to get out of shift, and later on was removed and put in angular project. I moved on 6 months later to a good company as backend engineer but i really regret joining my 1st company. When asked , I just say the work was not relevant to what i wanted. Please share your experience too.
Watsay49
Stealth
a year ago
Never remove workex. Just explain what happened in a positive way
Vegetabledev22
Stealth
a year ago
Will try for sure, nowadays roles paying 50+ are expecting 6 yr experience. Lets see abhi toh 3 hi h😅
This is not good advice. You have to minimise information to be more effective.
Qwerty2398
Stealth
a year ago
My whole resume is a lie. I have claimed a whole lot of stuff that i never worked on. There is no honor among thieves. Company do it all the time, why cant we,
OnADietCoke
Stealth
a year ago
First time I changed jobs it was effectively a technology switch, essentially they said my existing full stack skills would transfer well. Thought it would be good but basically was not what I expected in terms of technology. Also didn't help that the delivery manager and technical architect for the project there was extremely toxic and micromanaging and quite frankly unskilled when compared to their years of exp in the industry they had. So stayed there for about 2 months and left. Kept the experience for my next job switch and removed it from my resume after that.
In general it is always better to keep the experience in if you think you have done significant work and your work exp can be validated during a background check. Any experience that might paint you negatively or doesn't align with your career goals is well worth removing provided you can communicate the gap effectively if asked for clarifications.
UpsetUnicorn
Stealth
a year ago
My advice is a little gray and will require you to be a bit careful. But consider adding whatever you are good at or whatever is relevant to the role you are applying for to that time period.
For instance, if you are comfortable with some technology or framework etc but have never used it formally at work, you can include that. If you have done some side projects, feel free to include them here.
Point being, no body goes and checks what you did at that company. They do check the dates you worked at a company and your behaviour etc, but never exactly what you did.
The interviewer will ask you for more details on what you did at that job, what challenges you faced, etc. And why you quit that job if it's recent. As long as you answer that well, you are good to go.
You should assess the role, if it is not adding something important and/or different, drop it. Also, if you can't frame it as a quantifiable achievement, probably best to drop it. ATS won't pick it up.
AngryComma
Stealth
a year ago
Won't it show in BGC if the company had created an EPFO account? Can't you just tell you also worked as a BE in the first company as well? I doubt anyone will check that and you get to show extra 6 months of experience in your resume.
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