Can I change the dates for a 6 month stint on my resume? How to Address Resume Gap?
I worked at a tier 2 bank in its IB team for 6 months before I was let go due to a host of reasons.First, there was a cultural misfit. This was in 2021 and we were 100% remote. Couldn't build relationships. Second, the deal flow in my sector/group sucked + my heart was also not in it (I I had already done IB at a much more prestigious bank for a few years). I took the job because I was moving to a new country and this was a stepping stone for me to stabilize my cash flows.
Anyways, after this brief stint and a few months of job searching, I was able to land another job on the buyside and I've been there since then (18 months), where I am doing well and recently got promoted (fast-track).
I worked at this tier 2 bank from March to Oct 21 and I started my new job on the buyside (Corp Dev) in Nov 22. I only started job searching in May 22. On my resume, I don't include months (only years). Right now I am representing the starting and ending period for my experience (at the bank) as "2021". It's no big deal if not, but I am wondering if instead of saying 2021, I could just put 2021-2022. A 6 month stint could be Mar-Oct 21 or from June 21-Jan 22...which is how I Was justifying...plus is it a big deal over the long run.
It's ok to only write the Year, however do not start messing around with dates freely. In the background check, if they contact the org for your "2021-2022" 6-month internship, and the HR dept says you were employed "Mar-Oct 2021", this is going to look bad, and your future employer could just rescind your offer.
If pressured in interview, just say you took time off for personal reasons (mental health break, traveling, staying with family to take care of your pet calf, anything). But don't rewrite the past in a way that is shady and can (and likely will) be found out and cost you.
I'm not a hiring manager or a Partner or MD, but if someone lies to me about something like that, I just wouldn't trust them anymore.
Thank you. Makes sense. Do you think I should keep on including it though? It wasnt an internship. I could just increase the period of my consulting for a year. So from 2019 to 2022. I can't really disclose client names. Among other assignments, one of which I was consulting and acting as interim CFO got into techstars.
I really would not "lie" or "miscontrue" any hard information on a resume. Dates, job titles, & locations are what they are. I can't speak to how Banking looks at small gaps in a resume, but certainly in Consulting in EMEA, small gaps here and there are fine.
Now, where you have some leeway are things like reasons / rationales for those gaps. For example, it's fine to say you left a previous position for family reasons (no one would probe further) and when you started hiring again in May, the next role you got only had a start date available in November. That's ok. It makes sense, that's not necessarily right or wrong, it's more presentation. But I would not start stretching dates arbitrarily to "fill up" your CV.
I cannot emphasise this enough, if you get the job and then they do a background check and find false information on dates (and not by 1 month, but by 6 months to 1 year or more), this will not end well.
Everyone takes some liberty with bullet points, slightly exagerated leadership roles / achievements. Sure, why not. As long as there's a basis in reality, and it's not a lie, fine. But really don't mess with hard data.
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