For LinkedIn's career expert Catherine Fisher, it comes down to image. Being fired is taboo — and off-brand. Younger candidates aren't the only on es artfully shaping their work histories — everyone does that, and for good reason — but millennials, he says, "take this to the next level by guarding their professional and personal image online, covering up anything bad that's ever happened to them.
Millennials may be notorious for oversharing, but it's a carefully curated kind of oversharing — and that careful curation carries over into how millennials present themselves to potential employers. They're not necessarily wrong to tread carefully. Many millennial workers were hit hard by the recession.
As a result, "millennials feel that they must do whatever it takes to compete," says Karen Myers, an associate professor of communications at UC-Santa Barbara. Through that lens, image consciousness starts to feel less like narcissism and more like survival.
But there's another factor that may offer even more insight into the murky depths of the millennial psyche: More than their older colleagues, millennials value organizational "fit. At least from their perspective, "it may have been a lack of fit and they would have quit soon anyway.
Understanding why younger workers behave the way they do is only half the story. Here's the other question: Are millennials wrong not to disclose? She is also the author of several nonfiction trade publications, and, in , had her first young-adult novel published by Glass Page Books. Work Careers Management Jobs.
By Lisa McQuerrey. Getting Caught A potential employer has many ways to find out the truth if you lie on your job application about being fired. Your Reputation Lying about facts on your resume calls into question your ethics and morals and can damage your reputation. Telling the Truth Telling the truth on a job application or in an interview -- even if painful -- can actually endear you to a prospective employer, particularly if you explain the circumstances that led to the termination.
Explaining Unprofessional Conduct Many people who lie about a termination on a job application do so because of the circumstances surrounding the firing. Related Articles. I was once fired from an ice cream scooping job because I bit my fingernails too much and apparently the sight of my chewed-up digits bothered the customers. I can share the experience now and laugh about it; humor, as they say, is just pain plus time.
And what if a prospective employer asks why you left your last job? Thankfully, Alison Green, author of the popular Ask a Manager blog and a columnist for The Cut, has shared a simple solution. According to Green, covering up your firing is setting yourself up for disaster. The key to successfully answering questions about why you were fired is focusing on what you learned, and how you plan to improve going forward.
Green provides two sample scripts for responding when an interviewer wants to know why you left a job:. They made the right call, and I was relieved to get back to editing. Keep it concise, calm, and non-defensive, says Green. Most importantly, remember your own worth. When you visit our website, we store cookies on your browser to collect information.
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