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Here is the scenario. Employment application asked for 10 years employment history. I didn't have a resume and tried to do most of it from memory and records I had on hand. Only had my tax records back to 2004. No hire-powered jobs; administrative positions over 35 years of employment. Nothing was exaggerated.
After 3 intensive interviews with various management personnel I was hired and successfully passed 3 weeks of training. Now time to fill out application for state license for a state that company also operates in (not the state I am working in). That application asks for 10 years employment history, so to be sure, I go to my storage room and dig up boxes of old records and start going through all the paperwork. I find a record from 2 jobs I had in 2002, one for 4 days (I hated it and quit) and one for about 3-4 weeks which I quit to take another, better job.
I put these down on the state application. Question is, should I go back and talk to HR now and tell them about these discrepancies. To complicate the matter, before I started this new job on June 1, 2009, I got hired a another local company and after 4 days, was told "I wasn't a good fit." I didn't list this at all because I just didn't feel at the time that it was relevant. So, it all looks bad, I know, and I don't know what to do. It is tormenting me to know that there are these 3 discrepancies on my application. I know I can't work with this hanging over my head; it is torturing me. But I'm so afraid if I try to explain it all now, I'll be fired, and I need this job. We are about to lose everything and end up on the street. We literally have $23 to our name.
Do you have a security clearance or work with kids or in a job that requires and FBI background check?
If not I would maybe mention to HR that you realized you had forgotten about a couple of jobs that you only worked at for a very short time, and wanted to know if they wanted to add them to your employment record. Don't act guilty, act like it was what it was--your forgot. I doubt it will make any difference, because you weren't there for any length of time.
If you do require a security clearance, it could be a problem.
Because I will be working as an emergency call monitor for an alarm company, and they take calls from a certain state, that state requires call monitors to be licensed, just like security guards. I think HR might understand the two forgotten jobs; it is the one from May of this year, the 4 day job, that I'm not sure how to handle. I just didn't think it was relevant, but I guess it is, and I know that can be perceived as a lie on my application. Thanks for your advice. Very helpful.
I would be straight up and say that because you were only there for a few days you didn't feel it was relevant. Don't say you were let go, you quit, anything. Just stick to the minimal facts, you worked there for only a few days so didn't think to mention it. End of story.
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