How to explain grandson's checkered career history?

biglouis

A CV is often a complete work of fiction. It doesnt always pay to tell the truth.

I had an aquaintance who was rebuilding her career after a short spell in prison. When she was honest about it the agency interviewer told her they could not employ her and hinted that she should not have mentioned it. if she wanted to get on.

Next day she applied to another agency and she decribed the missing months as "providing end of life care for relative" (more or less impossible to check up on). Interviewer said "Sorry for your loss, That must have been tough" and quickly steered away.

The agency employed her and she ended up with a permanent post with a firm of soliciters before she retired.

How could you begin a career with a lie?
To fabricate a CV is dreadful.

Our daughter once interviewed someone whose CV and experience looked great but his degree was a 3rd.
When she asked him about this he said he partied hard for 3 years, was very immature and barely did any work, it was his biggest regret.

He got the job.

Most job applications are done online these days and the forms that need to be filled in and the information required is entirely different to the way it was done when most of us were at work.

DD recently changed her job and explained to me how different it is and the kind of information she was needing to supply. Equality rules often mean things like sex and age are left off forms.

One good thing, she changed her career entirely in her late 40s and now in her early 50s is racing up the career ladder, age and sex are no hinderance. All each employer has wanted to know about her is; Can she do the job?

Allira

David49

“Why would someone with a PhD want to apply for a more mundane job?”

Because there are no jobs that suit them and they need to pay the rent.

This person had a job but kept applying every time a certain type of job was advertised. It was very odd!

There is no shortage of “odd” people.

M0nica

Most job applications are done online these days and the forms that need to be filled in and the information required is entirely different to the way it was done when most of us were at work.

DD recently changed her job and explained to me how different it is and the kind of information she was needing to supply. Equality rules often mean things like sex and age are left off forms.

One good thing, she changed her career entirely in her late 40s and now in her early 50s is racing up the career ladder, age and sex are no hinderance. All each employer has wanted to know about her is; Can she do the job?

It’s not just is he/she qualified, they have to have the right personality to do the job, Appoint the wrong personality can be a disaster, we had that with the insurance office I deal with.

The previous senior partners retired, head office appointed a woman who was so bad ALL the other staff resigned, it was chaos, many customers took their business elsewhere, but it didn’t improve. HO daren’t sack her or they would have had a discrimination claim, after 18 months she had lost so much business her commission was so poor she resigned.

Can they do the job is much more than a CV, for a key employee, I want to know a lot more about them, lower grade workers you give them 6 months probation.