Omitting short jobs on work history?

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  1. insipidtoast

    insipidtoast Road Train Member

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    I have never had a cdl. I'm A bit worried about what potential employers will find out about my work history. In the past two years I can think of 3 jobs I had that I kept for two weeks or less. One was a summer job delivering pizzas, I quit after two weeks, because I just used it for some quick cash for an upcoming trip. I worked at the post office and dhl for only a couple weeks each. I didn't even make it out of the training period before I realized the positions were not a good fit for me. The scheduled were not what I was led to believe, and the jobs themselves were a pain.

    Typically I don't even list these 3 jobs on my resume, because it doesn't look good, and I figure such a short term job is irrelevant anyway. However, I've read a couple posts that say trucking companies will discover all your work history, so I'm thinking of listing these short term jobs that I quit after the first two weeks, even though it looks bad.

    What do you think?
     
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  3. JC1971

    JC1971 Road Train Member

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    I talked to a guy who told me he did 18 years in prison who got hired by a smaller company. Someone I knew from high school who was homeless got a job with CR England. I myself didn't work for 4 years, got an aerospace manufacturing job for three days, decided I didn't like, then quit and got my CDL. I don't think I would worry about your job history.
     
  4. Chinatown

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    List everything because trucking companies will find out.
     
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  5. G13Tomcat

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    ^^^^ This..... agreed.
     
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  6. insipidtoast

    insipidtoast Road Train Member

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    Ahh Okay. Thanks for the responses. Will do.

    Reason for leaving pizza delivery job? "Traveling" ?

    On a side note, how would they find out about the two week pizza delivery job from 3 years ago?
     
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  7. Chinatown

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    I don't know how they do it, but they do. If you got a jaywalking ticket in high school they will find out about it. For one thing, there's a paper trail for taxes, but I don't know if that's how they do it.
    @JC1971 - what you posted is actually pretty common. I know of someone that did 20 years for murder and when he was released, attended cdl school and went right to work with a medium size company.
     
  8. insipidtoast

    insipidtoast Road Train Member

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    So they want to know about any citations you've ever had? do they look at arrest records? Or just conviction records. I had something expunged from my record over ten years ago.
     
  9. Chinatown

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    Depends on how the question is asked; Have you "EVER" or Have you "within the last 5 years", blah blah.
    I really don't know the answer if something is expunged; shouldn't be able to it seems, but I don't know for sure.
    If I had something expunged, I wouldn't list it.
     
  10. rabbiporkchop

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    I streamline my resume. Companies will only find out about your 3 days at a DOT reportable company like JB or Werner.
    5 days at an aerospace company or McDonald's will not show up on a DAC report.
    Most likely a week working for an owner operator will not show up.
     
  11. pattyj

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    When it says reason for leaving just put seasonal.
     
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