5.5 Years Unemployed, Should I Lie on My Resume? (applications, company, salary)

[Jesse69]

I NEVER HAD A JOB OFFER I TURNED DOWN! I only said I asked for a $48,000 min salary at Cummins Alison and Ability Engineering. I think they wanted to only pay $45,000 a year, but we never negotiated a salary. If they offered a job and negotiated a salary, then I would submit to their offer pay.

[mjd07]

Originally Posted by Jesse69

I NEVER HAD A JOB OFFER I TURNED DOWN! I only said I asked for a $48,000 min salary at Cummins Alison and Ability Engineering. I think they wanted to only pay $45,000 a year, but we never negotiated a salary. If they offered a job and negotiated a salary, then I would submit to their offer pay.

So, you don't include your salary requirements until they ask.

Beyond that, there really is no reason to be angry and combative with people responding. You asked for advice and you are receiving advice. You won't always like or agree with what other people have to say, but that's not a reason to be argumentative.

Good luck in all you do.

[ColdAilment]

Originally Posted by Jesse69

I NEVER HAD A JOB OFFER I TURNED DOWN! I only said I asked for a $48,000 min salary at Cummins Alison and Ability Engineering. I think they wanted to only pay $45,000 a year, but we never negotiated a salary. If they offered a job and negotiated a salary, then I would submit to their offer pay.

Oh really? Please read the bold words.

Originally Posted by Jesse69

I shouldn't have rejected applying for the low ball salary of $23/hr for a John Deere job in New Orleans around March 2009, but that was too low for doing Proe and knowing GD&T.

I guess I should have accepted working for $45,000 a year at a certain South Side Chicago Eng firm, but I insisted on $48,000 year for having an ME degree, and if they wanted ME input they should at least pay for that. It was a Solidworks Mech Designer job. But the Sr Eng didn't like my spotty work history.

A Chicago recruiter just called me 4 months ago for a Solidworks Plastic Design job, but then they dismissed me for not having recent experience.

I apply to numerous Chicago job ads on Monster and CareerBuilder, but sometimes it's just a resume black hole. Like one week I applied for 20 jobs and yet I did not get a call for a single interview.

I fear I am getting discriminated based on my age and work history. I hardly have work experience as a design engineer but I've gotten a few calls and interview for some. I think if I had a solid 5 years design work history I would get frequent recruiter calls.

Chicago is a terrible jobs market. I just lived here to live rent free in my parents house, but a terrible thing happened - my mom died, her $4,198 monthly pension is now gone, and now my brother controls the Trust and he want to sell the Chicago house I live in because he wants his inheritance money. He always excuses that the Trust says he has to sell the house.

Because I interviewed for a rare Proe Designer Job knowing Windchill, electronic schematic reading, and Proe Creo and yet the Rockford company still didn't hire me after passing their schematic reading test and Proe test. For a $23/hr job.

I get $1171 monthly SSDI, but now that won't be enough.

Anything else?

[hunterseat]

You'll have to come up with something to fill that gap. I probably need to read all 8 pages of posts to figure out what you did during the 5*1/2 yrs but you should have something to put in there. I'd become seriously creative. You were: a parent? you watched your nieces & nephews? You studied online? Researched? Cooked food, shopped, washed your car? mowed lawns, Entrepreneur? Make an effort to appear NOT a bum.

[SarahReed]

Originally Posted by Yakscsd

While admirable on some level, this is a naive view of the world we live in. Why are you sure he will get a job? He hasn't in 5 years allegedly. How long should he try to play honestly? Sorry, but you do what you need to do to survive and in the spectrum of lines to cross, this one is very, very low.

So, just because he hasn't got the job in 5 years, this means that he should start lying and get into other law breaking activities? This is false. You can't build up anything based on a lie. I am sure he will get a job, if he try harder than he was trying before, nothing in this world is impossible, you just need to have a positive attitude and the will to do "it".

[hunterseat]

Okay, perhaps the truth is in order....simply.... unemployed. It's illegal for them to ask you health questions....or mental questions... or cross-dressing questions... or deviant...YOU GET THE IDEA. It IS legal, however to ask fiscal responsibility questions..... Grow up and take any job for now. And do it well. It's easier to get a job when you have a job. Flip burgers or volunteer... with maybe a greenhouse.... or a homeless thrift store....

[Suncc49]

Have you considered a job with the disabled industries? Like goodwill industries? They hire people on SSDI disability.

[STT Resident]

Originally Posted by Suncc49

Have you considered a job with the disabled industries? Like goodwill industries? They hire people on SSDI disability.

Good idea. Maybe he could replace the outfit in the profile photo with the employee discount.

[hopefulone]

Originally Posted by jman07

Anyone not working for more than a year hasnt' been trying hard .

That's quite a judgement isn't it? There are many people in that position and you don't know what they have or haven't been doing.

[midtown mile girl]

I am long term unemployed, but i do temp jobs here and there, and I put it on my resume to show that i am trying to work so i won't look like i am not doing anything.