Interesting that u tried something different

Software Developer

No need to add that as a company, instead just add a one liner and at the time of discussion with HR / Manager tell them. You can show how you managed those 10 people

Founder

Guys, I graduated in 2020. Started software engg job in 2021 April. Due to covid the joining date got delayed. I needed money so I started a informal company/ vendor and I  built a team of 510 peop...

Welcome to Business Roles's Private Community

Guys,
I graduated in 2020. Started software engg job in 2021 April. Due to covid the joining date got delayed.
I needed money so I started a informal company/ vendor and I  built a team of 5-10 people and used to provide educational material to unacademy like mcq and subjective question papers of 6-12 th class. 
I got fired from apna last month. Should I include this experience in my updated resume?

2020-2021 : above mentioned work
2021-2022: Service based company
2022-2023 sept: apna


Question:
1. This work experience is not related to soft engg at all. So how does engg managers/hiring managers/recruiters see this thing?
2. I am thinking this experience can show I tried something different and had an experience of managing people little bit. 
I am afraid on how hr/ senior software enggs would react to that in screening call.

Please guide. Looking for ans from senior devs/hrs/ Ems.

Need advice in adding work experience.

Software Engineer

Need advice in adding work experience.- Grapevine

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

In 2022, I worked in company A for less than 2 weeks and then left to join my current company B. 

I don't want to show that less than 2 weeks on my resume for future opportunities because I was still in onboarding process, no codebase access and no project was allocated . I realized joining company A was a mistake. 

Reason why I left was at the start of interview process I confirmed that I will get to work on React and they confirmed. But when I joined company A, I got to know they have 0 active React projects and all are in Aurelia (not even Vue/Angular). It was the 1st time I heard about Aurelia framework and decided to resign as I was already getting other better offers. I had discussion with Company A HR and manager and explained them reason of my resignation, they accepted and at the end of month I got salary of those 7 days in my bank.

Is it ok if I don't mention these 7 days in my resume because I did nothing there and was still going through onboarding?

I don't want to show it on my resume because it might indicate to my future employer that I am unreliable and can leave quickly after joining but actually it was not my mistake. They lied and I was lucky to have other offer. I fear future employers might not even shortlist my resume due to those 7 days.

Suggestions?

Need suggestion on hiding irrelevant experience

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

Product Manager

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

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.

Have you deleted any experience from your resume ? Why and how do you explain the gap?

AI Engineer

I am a 23 grad, fulltime exp around 9 months. Prior to that did 3 internship as full time. That experience would be close to 9 months. Did more stuff at my interns rather than my curr job. Also did some tech related stuff, hackathons, blogs, conent writing. When I apply to any job, people rightout reject me because I am a fresher 23 grad. My say is atleast look at my experiences and just not reject me because I am 23 grad. What's your opinion over this?

Experience or grad year?

People who landed job after having 3-4 years of career gap, please share how you did it? What would be your advice to people with long career gaps?

Everyone please share your thoughts or advice on this.

People who landed job after 3-4 years of career

I have submitted a resume of previous employment after completing my education till now ( total of 6 years, In these for the first 3 years I don't have documents) which I have worked for HR before taking a technical interview and client round interview. 
I got selected for that role. But HR is asking now to submit the documents including the updated resume. 
So, while submitting with an updated resume to HR can I remove the first 3 years which I don't have documents from the resume now.
And provide only the remaining documents to them.
Can someone please suggest to me this how to proceed. Thanks!

Hi I would like to change the employment experience in my resume before submitting the documents to HR which I got selected for, need suggestions on the below request

Hii, I'm a front-end developer having around 3 years of work experience. I got laid-off in 2023 just after 1.8years in an organisation. Then I joined another company and got laid off in 6 months. Now I have an offer from early stage startup but I'm too scared to accept it because of my experience. But on the other hand I don't have any offer as well. Will it look bad on my resume. I don't know... I've started thinking that something is wrong with me otherwise what is the chances of getting laid off twice within same year. 
First I loose my peace of mind because of work pressure and then I loose my work... pretty f**cked up situation.
I have never been this unde confident. 
What do you think shall I take the offer from startup again or wait few more months or more to get into good mnc??

2 Layoffs in 2 years

One of my close friends is not liking the work in the current company due to the terrible WLB. He is planning to switch to a new company but doesn't want to show this current company experience of 3+ months. Have you ever come across such a situation? What's the best thing to do? If he reveals to the new employer then it won't be good on his resume because the company previous to the current one laid off 50% of employees and unfortunately he got affected too in that layoffs. So, due to tough market conditions he has joined a startup and realised that he can't sustain here for long.

Please guide if it's alright not to put the last 3 months experience in the resume and apply for new jobs.

Does hiding previous experience of 3-6 months create any trouble in the new company?

Analyst

I'm 2021 passout have worked as backend developer,
I'm applying at startups but not getting good response.
After being influenced by some LinkedIn post I've re-created my resume, can you guys please advise on whatever I might be doing wrong, feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Pradeep simple resume.pdf

Help- resume, backend dev 2+yoe

Backend Engineer

I mean I have work experience of over 12 years but it’s the first time I have seen this. Like mostly am gonna go with red flag with the company but what are your thoughts? The company is Engati btw. Based in Bangalore and mumbai. Anyway stay toxic Indian tech scene…!

Is it normal while applying for a senior level job to be asked for high school (10th and 12th percentage)?

Creative Head

Please help here.

I was recently laid off. I am applying for jobs. One question that has been a bother for me is on my unfortunate past short stints. 
Need help from folks on how to tackle these Q's.
I am applying for product / strategy roles.
2015 - tier 1 engg
2019 - tier 1 MBA
1.5 yrs - did my own startup...fairly successful but later failed due to covid
11 months - worked in a fairly well known fast growing startup - left coz wanted to move to a product centric startup
14 months - worked in product based big unicorn startup - got laid off
10 months - joined an early stage startup - startup failed and laid off again

What should be my interview strategy? How do I portray my story in a positive light?

How to tackle interview Q's on my short stints?

Like I'm from a non-tech Background I have completed my graduation . It's been two years since I've completed my graduation. And now I want to join the tech industry as a Frontend Developer.
Like I know about these two section :- 
Skills :- HTML5, CSS, JAVASCRIPT, REACT, REDUX
PROJECTS :- I built three projects 



What else should I put in my resume ???

What Should I add to my Resume ?

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

Hello grapeviners,

I want to show my current work experience in a not so well known startup as contract role since it has been a 10 month stint only. Can I showcase it as a contract role?

It will help me justify my short stint. Also, I have been unfortunate to have had a series of short stints before as well. Those were big startups but either got closed or carried out heavy layoffs.

Please suggest. Would be quite helpful to know about the hack 🙂

Full time role to contract role

Hey guys, my first post on here.

I have been unemployed since a year due to some personal problems, but right now interviewing. On my resume is it advisable to add my freelance work which I’ve done in the past year instead of the gap ? It was on and off freelancing for a friends company.

I wanted inputs on, if this is okay and also, how would a background check be done regarding this? Is contact with the client good enough for background verification.

Thank you

Resume advice

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

I have 5+ years of total experience - 3+ years of BA (business analyst) + Sr BA experience and a year of Product Manager 2 experience. Then I started my own venture.

I'm thinking about switching back to the product manager role as my firm is not working as per the expectations and product development & growth marketing is something I genuinely enjoy working on.

I need some advice from you all - how can I justify my 'employment gap'? 
What should I tell (or rather hide) about start-up failure?
What should be my approach while applying for PM openings? Where should I start?
I have graduated from an IIT, how can I leverage that?

I know some of these questions would sound noobish, but I really don't have much experience in switching careers. 

Your help is appreciated 🙂.

Need some serious advice

Welcome to Confessions's Private Community

Forgive me my Sins

In 2017, after graduating, I joined a big IT corporate as an Associate Consultant (Engineer). My start date was delayed by six months, and four months in, I was benched with half my already very low pay.

Money was tight with rent and other expenses. My family expected me to start investing in jewellery and buying land.

I was new to Bangalore and wanted more money to visit bars and expensive restaurants every weekend. Wanted to buy a bike with good gear. Along the dream to have a girl riding behind me. Sab Aukat ke bahar.

As one does, I started looking out into startups. The problem - 0 relevant work ex.

So here it goes,
I had interned at a startup in college and knew what their documents looked like. Filled the 6 empty months in my CV with a job as a “SDE-I Android” working with the founder directly.
I spiced up my CV with claims of 2x load time, reducing costs, international team collaboration, and an award.
Some college awards to boot too!

I made a detailed fake job story, read interview books, solved questions and watched salary negotiation videos. Eventually, I got into a Series A startup with only having to make 1 fake certificate.
They never checked with my previous employers, and now I earn eight times what I would have.

The guilt and imposter syndrome haunted me until I started performing well. I still feel guilty, like last Holi when my family praised my achievements.

Just excused myself and went for a smoke and a ride out. The bike is here and it is a custom painted beauty.

Guilty thoughts still go by occasionally but I am becoming more and more comfortably numb to it every passing year.

I have since stopped outright lying and just partake in the standard resume inflation.

Had to let this out.

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