Timeline for I worked for a company affiliated with a very publicly failed project. Should I take it off my resume?
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| Oct 12, 2015 at 5:53 | comment | added | Paul Hiemstra | @Kaz the anecdotes are the data in this case. If Joe's answer is invalid, than so are many other answers in this thread that are based on personal experience. What kind of data exactly would you accept? | |
| Oct 12, 2015 at 4:11 | comment | added | Kaz | @PaulHiemstra The experience isn't relevant. A claim like "don't worry, most hiring managers won't negatively associate you with a failed project", it requires data, not anecdotes. | |
| Oct 11, 2015 at 22:08 | comment | added | Paul Hiemstra | @Kaz Joe provides insight from his own experience as being a hiring manager, and adds more data points by adding in other hiring managers he knows. The question of the OP is answered and backed up with experience explaining why Joe thinks this is good advice. So, I disagree that the answer is useless. Could you explain more why the answer is useless? | |
| Oct 7, 2015 at 10:30 | history | edited | Joe Strazzere | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 5, 2013 at 22:09 | comment | added | Kaz | This answer is completely useless. "I'm a nice hiring manager (protecting my organization from bad apples, be damned), so just behave as if everyone is like me. Good luck!" Just count how many times "I" and "me" occurs. | |
| Dec 5, 2013 at 22:00 | comment | added | Kaz | @EllenB If I had a stack of 50 resumes, I'd toss it like a candy wrapper. If I had three, I'd not be so hasty. | |
| Dec 4, 2013 at 20:57 | comment | added | eykanal | If you had a very public role, though, it may come up. | |
| Dec 4, 2013 at 20:19 | comment | added | Ellen B | If you're in a tech field (engineering, design) there's such high demand for those roles that I highly doubt you'd get rejected on that basis — I make hiring decisions and I'd never throw out an otherwise interesting resume because of 6 months at a dodgy company. Actually, the fact that you spent only 6 months there speaks in your favor! Unless you were one of the senior decisionmakers on that project I wouldn't hold you responsible, and even if you were I'd care more about whether you learned from your mistakes. | |
| Dec 4, 2013 at 17:28 | comment | added | Roy Tinker |
... unless I somehow believed the individual was directly responsible for the failure - don't discount the value of failing on the road to success. I wouldn't reject someone because of past failure, if they openly acknowledge it and articulate convincingly where they went wrong and what they should have done instead -- au contraire!
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| Dec 4, 2013 at 16:42 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | Further, while I've never tossed a resume for being at the wrong company, I have tossed resumes for "been out of work too long". 6 months wouldn't trigger that for me, but it may for others. | |
| Dec 4, 2013 at 15:35 | history | answered | Joe Strazzere | CC BY-SA 3.0 |