Has anyone been caught omitting job on application

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So I just lost my 2nd nursing job due to being too slow to complete tasks assigned. As for my first job I stayed on a per diem basis. I applied for some jobs and left my last job off the application thinking I wouldn't be hired anywhere else if they contacted the job that let me go. Then I got a call for job interview. I only listed my first job who I am still employed with. I feel terrible because in my entire life I have held 5 jobs over 30 years. Never been fired I am new to nursing and think I had a bad lapse in judgment filling out the application becasue I really need to work and don't know if I can get enough hours where I am perdiem. I'm also really wanting to change direction after this experience. Now I don't know if I should call up and cancel the interview so the never find out I didn't include the last job and maybe I can reapply there at alter time (really don't want to ruin my chance to work there) or if I can go back in and edit my application online and explain my position in the interview? Or if I shouldn't edit it and Just tell them in the interview that I left it off or should I not say anything and see what happens. I'm feeling like I'm messing up my life now. Dont know what to do. I'm afraid they will most certainly find out about the job I had for less than a month and was let go. The employer wanted to let me go on day two, but I was able to talk to them and allowed to stay longer to prove myself which I failed to do. I should have left them at the time I was told I was not a good fit, but I just didn't believe it. My job pervious to that valued me and said I was doing great. What a smack in the face. Anyway has anyone known of or had a similar experience with omitting a job on application recently and if so how did it turn out? Any advice now that I have already made a bad decision. Please ?

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Specializes in Critical Care, Education.

As a hiring manager & educator, I have been involved in two instances - when new hires were terminated for falsification of the employment application - after the background check revealed job information that they had omitted. I've never seen an employment application that did not contain some sort of attestation - where you have to sign a statement that the information you provided is all "true".

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Specializes in Clinical Research, Outpt Women's Health.

Go interview and at the interview just let them know that you accidentally left some job info off the app and explain...

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Specializes in NICU, Trauma, Oncology.

Own it. Tell the interviewer that you left it off the application because of what happened, explain the circumstances of your termination and importantly what you are doing to rectify the problem. For future knowledge, you have the right to ask that prospective employers not contact previous employers but be prepared to explain why you don't wish to have them contacted.

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Specializes in NICU, Trauma, Oncology.

Also bring a COMPLETE printed resume with you to the interview

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I an leaning in that direction, just feel I'm not going to have an opportunity now no matter what. They will probably believe I'm lying either way and pass me over. I appreciate your input.

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I an leaning in that direction, just feel I'm not going to have an opportunity now no matter what. They will probably believe I'm lying either way and pass me over. I appreciate your input.

My manager fired a guy 6 months in for lying on his application. And there's a very good possibility they will pass you over. They may think if you are lying about a previous job, what else are you lying about. Learn from the mistake and don't make it again.

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Yes application has a disclaimer. I actually applied for this job 4-5 months ago and didn't get contacted so I reapplied. To reapply it's online your old info comes up you can edit it any time. I just added the change to per diem and changed the date which is where the disclaimer is. I didn't bother to re-read it and didn't think about it until after the call. At that point I pulled it up and read the disclosed over and here we are. Have you seen someone get hired despite coming clean at the interview? Or would you say it's doomed no matter what? Anyway I appreciate your input. I would ask did the two get fired because of lying on application or because of somthing they got terminated for at another job? In other words did they commit gross misconduct and that's why they left it off or were they just like me, where they just didn't fit the job, but chose to leave it off out of fear it would prevent them from getting hired. I know it's not the end of the world but I really don't want to miss this opportunity.

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. I would ask did the two get fired because of lying on application or because of somthing they got terminated for at another job? In other words did they commit gross misconduct and that's why they left it off or were they just like me, where they just didn't fit the job, but chose to leave it off out of fear it would prevent them from getting hired. I know it's not the end of the world but I really don't want to miss this opportunity.

The person where I worked was fired for lying on their application.

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Dialysis.

Definitely come clean about this in the interview. Your saving grace might be that your application was completed before this job so explaining that your application wasn't edited to add it can be explained as an oversight and not a purposeful omission.

Even so, be prepared that it might cost you a job offer, but better that than being terminated for lying on an application after you have already started a job. If that were to happen you would then have another termination to add to your resume, and not one that can be truthfully explained by not being a good fit for the position.

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.

I may get flamed for this, but I have omitted a job off of applications, partially because there were not enough spaces, as well as I didn't make it past orientation and have not been fired; maybe I had very good references or my skills were able to not have my employers reconsider hiring me. *shrugs*

If it bothers you to know end, I agree with a previous poster to show up with a complete resume; just state that you updated your resume for accuracy and move off of it; sell yourself but DON'T get too hung up on the omission.

Best wishes.

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All through my 20's I've omitted jobs that didn't work out or didn't apply to the type of job I was applying for. I generally don't like to have jobs on my resume that are less than 1 year and because I always worked multiple jobs at a time, I've never had to worry about gaps in employment hx. However, as I turn 30 & begin my career in Nursing I won't be doing that. I just feel like to a certain extent people providing health care should be "track-able" vs. The less important jobs I've omitted like waitress, CSR etc.

But to get to your question: No, I have never been caught or called out for omitting jobs & I have worked for some enormous companies with top notch HR departments.

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