I'm in a position where I will have one glowing reference (current employer) and one reference which will be factual, including a disciplinary.
I made a completely embarrassing mistake at my previous job. The circumstances leading up to it was I really struggled with an aspect of the job, and had raised my own concerns which weren't answered, but I obviously take responsibility for the whole thing. It was for misconduct.
A job I'm going for won't have the same circumstances, so there won't be the same risk there imo, but obviously from a future employer point of view I get they might not see it that way. I have to give my recent employers as a ref, so couldn't get around it by using someone else.
Just looking for opinions on whether a great reference would outweigh the disciplinary on the factual one?
A couple of points -I wasn't dismissed from previous job, I eventually resigned during a a redundancy consultation.
I wasn't asked to declare it at any point during application (tbh I forgot I'd had one as it was few years ago and it didn't have an effect on my working relationships, management did sort of laugh it off and 'comfort' me but they had to follow procedure)
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Disciplinary on reference -would you still consider?
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1984isnow · 18/10/2019 10:04
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