Should i put "dropped out of A levels" TWICE on my application form?

[QueenVictoria]

I never know whether its better to list that i stayed on at 6th form for 6 months and decided i didnt like it. Then tried it again at college and still didnt like it.

What do you people think?

And what is best to put in the huge space they leave for supplementary information (i was at the same job for over 10 years until recently so im very out of touch).

NOOOOOOOOOO don't put it in!

NOPE. Better to say you were on a sabbatical or something

But there is a gap in the time between 1992 and my first job in 1994. Shall i just see if they spot this discrepancy?

Many applications only ask for last ten years anyway!.

Loads of people don't work for a year or two after leaving education, especially in the middle of a recession, I wouldn't worry, just leave it out.

Cheers folks

What about the supplementary info bit?

My CV tends to gloss over the fact that I've dropped out of a HND course and a degree course they were awhile ago, so I tend to be a bit blurry about dates, I doubt if they'd bother checking. I actually lost out on a really good job because I put I dropped out of the HND course - they gave it to the next best applicant as they thought they would be more 'reliable'

My CV glosses over the fact that I completed an HND and failed it

(Luckily it's way more than 10 years ago so it doesn't show!)

quite frankly, if you been in a job for 10 years now, A levels are irrelevant - only put school stuff on CV if you are just leaving school

Thanks ladies. Will omit it.

I'd bin a CV that had "dropped out" of anything. Hate that, so do many other people.

Presumably you were doing something for that time, unless it was actively criminal put that.

As for a gap, it is now the case that many large firms do basic pre-employment screening. Unless you are doing something very sensitive, 5 years without a gap is generally enough.

They can be quite anal about the lack of gaps. I was pimping someone into a large firm, and she was currently between jobs, so there was a gap. We solved this in the end because I was a director of the firm and could thus solemnly confirm that she had been looking for work, not in prison or an Al Qaeda training camp.