wait I thought references was to confirm working at a place at a certain time.
are you saying I should skip references? or only put ones I know will get me in with your particular job.
you are just one interviewer. do other interviewers have different requirements? cause I’m starting to feel like I’m doing an awful lot of work that some jackass is going to just chuck into a pile of “don’t hires” for all the good a stupid cover letter does me.
I’m saying that when you’re given an opportunity to list references, list people who won’t give you a negative reference.
And sometimes the non-specific nature of employment verification can hurt you. A common rule for companies is only to verify when they worked there and whether they’re eligible for re-hire.
A good example from my personal past is that I worked at a company where I experienced an on-the-job injury in 2018 that required cosmetic surgery. Their insurance required the surgery occur within 2 years to cover it, but the wound had to finish “developing” for a year before they could do the surgery, so I had a 1-year window to get the surgery.
I scheduled the surgery with about 9 months to spare, but the date ended up being in 2020, and because of Covid I couldn’t get it done in the 2-year window. I had left the job in the meantime, so the former employer reached out with a settlement agreement to basically pay me cash that I could use for the surgery after Covid died down.
As part of the settlement language, there was a clause that I couldn’t be employed by the company in the future, which was fine by me because it was a retail management job I did after college while searching for a real job.
So if someone calls up that former employer and gets the standard response, it would be that I worked from X date to Y date and am not eligible for re-hire.
I explained that when interviewing for a job in 2021 that I ended up getting. They told me after hiring that I would not have been given the position if I hadn’t given them a heads-up about it because they were told I was ineligible for re-hire by the previous company.
wait I thought references was to confirm working at a place at a certain time.
are you saying I should skip references? or only put ones I know will get me in with your particular job.
you are just one interviewer. do other interviewers have different requirements? cause I’m starting to feel like I’m doing an awful lot of work that some jackass is going to just chuck into a pile of “don’t hires” for all the good a stupid cover letter does me.
I’m saying that when you’re given an opportunity to list references, list people who won’t give you a negative reference.
And sometimes the non-specific nature of employment verification can hurt you. A common rule for companies is only to verify when they worked there and whether they’re eligible for re-hire.
A good example from my personal past is that I worked at a company where I experienced an on-the-job injury in 2018 that required cosmetic surgery. Their insurance required the surgery occur within 2 years to cover it, but the wound had to finish “developing” for a year before they could do the surgery, so I had a 1-year window to get the surgery.
I scheduled the surgery with about 9 months to spare, but the date ended up being in 2020, and because of Covid I couldn’t get it done in the 2-year window. I had left the job in the meantime, so the former employer reached out with a settlement agreement to basically pay me cash that I could use for the surgery after Covid died down.
As part of the settlement language, there was a clause that I couldn’t be employed by the company in the future, which was fine by me because it was a retail management job I did after college while searching for a real job.
So if someone calls up that former employer and gets the standard response, it would be that I worked from X date to Y date and am not eligible for re-hire.
I explained that when interviewing for a job in 2021 that I ended up getting. They told me after hiring that I would not have been given the position if I hadn’t given them a heads-up about it because they were told I was ineligible for re-hire by the previous company.
this just keeps getting more depressing as I’m reading and it’s making me think a life of crime might be preferable, honestly.
at least if I fuck that up I can still get a room and food.