FrankyOne
Junior Member
- Dec 3, 2014
- 156
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Dear all,
I would like to have your view about a professional problem that I have been facing for a while now. The issue is the employment gap I have on my resume. When I use the term gap, I talk about a period when I tried to work independently setting my own business in the UK for around three years. Since I had many problems during that period (girlfriend moved to another nation, I relocated as well for staying closer, my dad’s cancer etc.) I left the organisation dormant without any traceable activity to demonstrate that it was a regular business registered with myself as a sole trader and it never started. Although I currently work as an employee in a tech business, I still get some troubles when I submit the resume to recruiters.
What happens is that, if I leave a gap on the resume, recruiters ask me to provide information, but when I do it, they turn me down. I feel quite disheartened since for the last two years at this job I have been working very hard and kept on studying for certifications in the IT field thinking of moving forward in a higher position. It cost me money and effort.
At this point, I wonder if I would be unethical to pay a business owner to provide me job reference for a position with similar responsibilities to the one I got now and try to overcome this problem or you think is better to find a company more understandable towards somebody who at least made an attempt in life?
The concern is that most of the organisations in the field usually perform a background check for the last two jobs at least. The candidate would need to provide the name of the company, a reference’s contact and consider the possibility that whoever runs the vetting process could query the companies’ house database to find out whether it exists or is a complete lie. That means that it’s not just about asking your friend to pick up a phone call or setting up a website with an aged domain, the company should have at least been incorporated and then dissolved.
Right now I feel quite pissed for the ethical side and eventually the necessity to find somehow a business owner who can BS for providing me with a reference.
I would like to know your view concerning this point. I follow the site from time to time and I know that is plenty of brilliant entrepreneurs and sometimes there are tons of flames when it comes to ethics.
Kind regards.
I would like to have your view about a professional problem that I have been facing for a while now. The issue is the employment gap I have on my resume. When I use the term gap, I talk about a period when I tried to work independently setting my own business in the UK for around three years. Since I had many problems during that period (girlfriend moved to another nation, I relocated as well for staying closer, my dad’s cancer etc.) I left the organisation dormant without any traceable activity to demonstrate that it was a regular business registered with myself as a sole trader and it never started. Although I currently work as an employee in a tech business, I still get some troubles when I submit the resume to recruiters.
What happens is that, if I leave a gap on the resume, recruiters ask me to provide information, but when I do it, they turn me down. I feel quite disheartened since for the last two years at this job I have been working very hard and kept on studying for certifications in the IT field thinking of moving forward in a higher position. It cost me money and effort.
At this point, I wonder if I would be unethical to pay a business owner to provide me job reference for a position with similar responsibilities to the one I got now and try to overcome this problem or you think is better to find a company more understandable towards somebody who at least made an attempt in life?
The concern is that most of the organisations in the field usually perform a background check for the last two jobs at least. The candidate would need to provide the name of the company, a reference’s contact and consider the possibility that whoever runs the vetting process could query the companies’ house database to find out whether it exists or is a complete lie. That means that it’s not just about asking your friend to pick up a phone call or setting up a website with an aged domain, the company should have at least been incorporated and then dissolved.
Right now I feel quite pissed for the ethical side and eventually the necessity to find somehow a business owner who can BS for providing me with a reference.
I would like to know your view concerning this point. I follow the site from time to time and I know that is plenty of brilliant entrepreneurs and sometimes there are tons of flames when it comes to ethics.
Kind regards.
