There is no law or rule or anything that says you have to list all jobs. Leaving off jobs that don’t matter makes the resume easier to read. And if rhey do somehow find out and ask, you will know they are pretty meticulous.
kassiopaea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
I know this is true for most employers, but I’m not sure I’d be willing to be confident that there’s no way for any company to know. I’ve heard more than one report of companies that sell that sort of information to certain partners.
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Sackeshi@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The only way to know where you worked is really via tax documents. Unless the company has access to government databased they aren’t able to verify anything.
There isn’t really any data that can prove you worked somewhere other than tax info.
lividweasel@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Word-of-mouth is a thing.
“Hey Sackeshi, didn’t I hear that you were working over at ABC Corp last year? I’m curious why you chose to leave that off of your resume?”
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 days ago
Tracking smartphone users is a billion dollar industry, and it’s not that hard to figure out where a user is working if you have their location data and a million other data points from their phone usage. That doesn’t necessarily mean that this data is easily accessible to every employer, but it’s absolutely possible to know someone’s work history with reasonable certainty without government databases.
traceur301@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
The data could in many cases be strong evidence someone worked somewhere, but the corollary isn’t true. A lack of data doesn’t prove someone didn’t work there, which makes this technique not very useful for some percentage of the population which makes the whole technique inconclusive
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 days ago
The thing is, they don’t need irrefutable evidence to toss out your resume, or at least be suspicious enough about it to ask you what you did in a given period; and if they already paid for this data, they might as well verify your answer as well.
leakier_spook0w@lemmy.world 3 days ago
employees.theworknumber.com
Sineljora@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Thanks! You can and should ask equifax to freeze your work number.