Can I leave off CV?

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If you quit a job within 3 months of starting, and within the probation period, do you think it's ok to pretend like it just never happened and leave it off your CV? Is that fraudulent or acceptable?

What will your P45 say for last employment?

Oh i hadn't thought of that! I don't know? Will that impact things with a new employer if I get a new job?

I just thing it will state last employer, and you’ll be found out as it wasn’t on your CV?

Also what you’ve earn’t abs paid tax on in the current tax year, as we’re only in May, and I assume you’ve worked in the old place since April, then it’ll show tax paid?

Would you be saying you didn’t work in current tax year? How would you close the gap in employment or just say you weren’t working?

Be careful!

I've done it multiple times, no issues. I simply didn't give a P45 and nobody cared.

But I guess will vary by company.

Yes maybe that will work, but be careful OP!

I work in FS, any gaps need to be fully explained, so this would never be an option

Thanks all.

I can explain the gap as I have 2 jobs. One is self employed, the other is salaried.

The salaried one I am.hating! I took it as an emergency when the self-employed work dried up.

Problem is, I am now applying for a very senior post. My CV is great, except for this emergency job I took which is in a very junior role and i just hate seeing it there on my CV, want to leave and want to pretend it never happened! Without it, I think I could get the job in the senior role. But with it there i think it just creates a bad first impression

Haven't been.able.to.sleep all night because I desperately want this senior role, and think my decision to take this temporary junior post has ruined my chances. I wish I'd neber taken it but the pay was really good.and I needed the income...

Good luck whatever you decide!

Thanks. Because it's a v senior.role.i.dont.want to.hide anything or do.anything I shouldn't do. If I did get the post, I absolutely would not want to jeopardize it in any way. I haven't quit the junior post yet (though I desperately want to). I was thinking I should quit then erase from my CV, but if this is not appropriate I could.comtinue and quit if/when I get the senior role. But that means leaving it on the CV and on my application.

I think I will try and speak to the company before I submit.my.application and explain why I am currently in.a junior role, and talk it through with them..

I personally would write an accompanying letter! Tell them exactly what you’ve said here that makes perfect sense.

But say you realise with the benefit of hindsight it’s not a shining example on your CV. That you’d welcome the chance to discuss this all at interview level.

As a fellow job seeker are you actively applying? Or have you applied? (I'm assuming you haven't).

What's your industry? Is it a regulated one?

IME (work in private sector) having random junior roles do look bad on paper.

Or you could have a functional CV instead

Do you need to put dates against roles? You could just put the job titles, summary and skills gained/used/evidenced in order.

edit: editing as I’ve just seen your updates RE it being quite junior. Is it related at all to the field of work/role you’re going for? If not, I would leave it off. If questioned, it’s easy to explain you didn’t feel that role was relevant here. We don’t all continue to put the barista roles we did at uni, do we, so I think that would be fine.

Some serious over thinking going on here.

Leave it off the CV, if challenged at a later date just say it was a temporary role and wasn't for you so you didn't declare it.

Nobody is going to compare your CV with your P45, unless you are applying to be Trump's bodyguard, the MI5 or something similar.

As long as your references are solid you will be fine.

Good luck with the application.

Leave it off, but put a line in your CV saying something along the"Full CV available upon request". Therefore you are showing that not everything is being included on your CV, so not being untruthful by ommission. You could also head your employment section "Select Previous Employment" or "Relevant Previous Employment". So when they glance at your previous roles they're not looking at your more junior role, but you've made clear not everything has been included so it doesn't come back to bite you at some point.

I like that - Relevant employment. No need for anything else, keep it simple.

FYI Financial Services roles do.

I don’t work for Trump but I do need a full work
history.

This sort of thing does get picked up.

In my industry you have to put all or explain any gaps. In the gaps, you could have been in prison for example. I have one very short job on my CV - it was an awful job and I hated it. I still put it and for reason I left, I put personal reasons. No-one says anything. Put it in

I would leave it off your CV.

If you have been freelancing consistently anyway there are no gaps to explain.

You don't need to have a P45, your employer can instead make you fill a 'starter list' to get all the info they need for payroll.

Leave it off your CV. There's no point, you don't need to list it and it probably wouldn't look good on the CV anyway.

I've done this type of thing before, no problems (in the days when I worked). I have given references from previous jobs before the one I left off, there is no need to hand over a P45 (just fill in a P46 or whatever it's called) and the tax office doesn't tell employers what jobs you've had or where.

When I was younger I used to over-think everything on a CV, as I got older and older (and there were more jobs on there, some of which I'd rather weren't there) I got used to leaving stuff off that wasn't relevant. Never had a single problem.

Unless you work in an industry that requires a full employment (financial services, civil service etc) you are really overthinking this.

A lot of jobs ask for the HMRC record of your employment which includes everything from the last 5 years. I have known people who have not been hired due to discrepancies.