Come Clean with Dismissal or Not?

[Sapphocles]

Thanks for your replies!

[Daytonite, BSN, RN]

I wouldn't reveal any information about being fired from job unless specifically asked. Some places won't release information on whether or not an employee was fired or terminated voluntarily anyway. However, loose lips sink ships. The more you talk at a job interview, the more you reveal about yourself. A smart and crafty interviewer can get enough out of you to raise questions about what went on at a previous job to make them put your application at the bottom of their list. Let the organization who you have made an application for a job with do their investigation. If they flat out ask you, then you need to respond in an honest and tactful way. If they never ask, then you're off the hook. I've been a manager and worked with a temporary employment agency. Some places, believe it or not, NEVER check out this kind of background information. May you be lucky to find one of them.

[leslie :-D]

You can't file for unemployment if you just leave and some people need something coming in moneywise..

actually you can file for unemployment if you can prove that working conditions were such that you were 'forced' to quit.

i know.

i've done it...and have gotten the unemployment.

leslie