Have always wanted to do S&T. After graduating, no luck and managed to get a full time cconsulting position where I worked for 6 months before landing at a smaller s&t firm. While i'm glad I was able to make the jump sooner than later into the right industry, my real goal is to soon use this experience and get into a mm or bb S&T. Now my question is this. I know shifting around 2-3 times in 2.5 years isnt so highly regarded so am i able to leave this consulting experience off my resume. I was there for only 6 months so it wouldnt leave a terrible gap in employment bw graduation and first S&T position and secondly, b/c I left after only 6 months, it wasn't on the best of terms and while I'm aware ppl make bigger deal out of background checks on this website, I'm nervous that can only hurt me. Basically, can someone advise if a 6 month, more or less unrelated position can be left off my resume. I assume in the long term down the road this would be fine but how about short term. Thanks
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If you leave your consulting gig out of your resume, you will HAVE a gap. If you keep it, you won't have a gap. So that's simple to see.
Why you left after 6 months? because you didn't not want to waste time until you got what u are PASSIONATE about , was a great learning experience, and an OPPORTUNITY came up in the field you want it, so you took it. plain and simple. it wouldn't hurt, short term or long-term, unless maybe if you want to go back to consulting in the near future, which i am assuming you don't.
Future employers will understand don't worry, it is all about how you market it/present it.
good luck and congrats on the S&T gig!
i appreciate that and makes sense...in the event I decide to go the other route, I was more concerned with possibility of this being found out somehow and if its wrong to leave something off resume. Obviously, creating something that didn't happen is bad but what about vice versa?
well if you leave something out, they will never find out about it anyway, so I guess it wouldn't hurt you legally but will hurt your future prospects at other jobs because you will have a gap. They will ask u what did u do after college for 6 months, and you would have to tell them u had a consulting gig, and you will look stupid for not putting it. They will assume u performed badly, that you don't wanna mention it...
I am in the same situation like you (in the general sense, I am already in the industry), and I would just leave it in my resume, and for me, I will just not add a reference from that experience if my boss is pissed cuz i left earlier than he expected. But I am sure he will understand ultimately.
for background check, unless u put ur boss's name and phone number, and he will give u a bad review cuz u left early, you wont get a bad reference. In that case, u just put the HR's number, and they will just confirm ur position and dates and thats all.
I wouldn't worry too much, but I would worry about the exit opps and learning opps of your S&T gig compared to consulting. Is it legit or not and so on.
I wouldn't leave it out. Contrary to popular belief on this forum, a consulting job isn't a bad thing. It's how you answer the "Why did you leave the job?" that's going to make all the difference. I would work extra hard on finding a good excuse.
Lieing on your CV is not a good idea. Banks are very good at finding things like this and you will look like a complete idiot if they do and will almost certainly get rejected.
Hey Bafoon I was wondering if you could look over my rez and give some tips / places to apply sort of thing? Is it ok if I PM you?
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