HELP!! What to put on resume after being unjustly FIRED?

2008pn · Mar 11, 2009

Well if you won your case, why not state you left voluntarily? I don't see why bring up something that ended on a good note if you ask me, I mean did they actually fire you?

AtlantaRN, RN · Mar 11, 2009

I always thought that the only thing your former employer may devulge are the dates starting and ending employment.

linda

OB6658 · Mar 11, 2009

I always thought that the only thing your former employer may devulge are the dates starting and ending employment.

Generally speaking, the above is true. However, I guess it depends on where you live as to whether prospective employers actually call the former employer.

Where I live, this is not done anymore. The new employer calls this place "The Work Number" (an employment & income verication service). This place will divulge the place you worked for, date started and ended and job title. I'm not completely sure, but I believe it can also state if the past employer will hire you back or not. (which automatically set the red flag with recruiters)

below are few websites on whether you should tell a perspective employer the truth or not. But keep in mind, Nurses usually have worked in multiple hospitals in your area at one time or another. It always seems like everyone knows each other through others, and if you lie...somebody in the new place, is going to know somebody in the old place..etc...

http://www.medhunters.com/articles/dearCPTerminatedEliminated.html

http://www.wikihow.com/Get-a-Job-After-You%27ve-Been-Fired

http://www.cvtips.com/interview/termination_questions.html This site has alot of info if you click on the titles in the left hand box. Especially about interviewing.

BTW, is there anyway you can private email on this forum? Thanks.

OB6658 · Mar 11, 2009

angelswings09 as another member wrote in one of your earlier posts: try to get your file cleared and move on as part of the grievance settlement (voluntary resignation and agreement not to contest unemployment while you search for a new position.)

since you won the case, i'm guessing you haven't left your employment yet but are looking for another job?? if that is the case, you don't have to put you were "fired" at all.

doesn't sound like you have an issue writing anything at all. nurses look for new places to work everyday.

in fact, where i am, nurses average no more than 5 years at each place of employment, with few to the exception.

if an employer asks you why you are leaving your present position, you could always say either you needed a change or you didn't agree with some of their policies.

caliotter3 · Mar 11, 2009

The title of your thread mentions resumes. Resumes only list dates of employment, never reasons for leaving. As for that block on employment applications, take the advice of others and write something that is not negative. If there is a problem, it will come up at an interview anyway and you will get your chance to say what you want to say. Gather your thoughts and be prepared to answer any questions, but until they come up, don't spend too much time worrying about this. It will hamper your job search and your ability to present yourself in a positive manner.

nurseforlife · Mar 11, 2009

On a resume, Why not tell them where you worked? It's not like you didn't actually work for them.

If filling out an application under reason for leaving . KEEP BLANK. If they ask you again, tell them the truth and what happenned. I think the most important thing is to "get the interview". Being given the opportunity to explain yourself in person, rather than just ignored or never considered for a job. That's the way I see it.

BELIEVE THAT YOU DESERVE AT LEAST THAT MUCH!!!

GOOD LUCK

OB6658 · Mar 11, 2009

If filling out an application under reason for leaving . KEEP BLANK.

I agree with NURSEFORLIFE. I think if you put that you were fired in the place on the application that says "reason for leaving"...that application will mysteriously get filed into another pile(unoffically, of course) and you will never get called.

island40 · Mar 11, 2009

I've been fired 3 times and asked to leave once. I put the reasons for my having been fired as it was due to attendance difficulties attributed to my chronic health condition I always mention to my employement prospect that I am well now and do not expect to be off of work for an extended period of time again. I don't have to tell them what my health condition is and they are not allowed to ask. The one time I was asked to leave I went back to the administration and asked them what they would tell a prospective employer about me if asked. I might not have been told the truth since this woman was a backstabbing idiot. Always be prepared during the interview to expain under what circumstances you left any job and be able to spin it favorably- this doesnot mean lie, this just means to tell YOUR side of the story.

AngelfireRN, MSN, RN, APRN · Mar 12, 2009

I was recently terminated as well, for "asking too many questions". On my job apps I write "will discuss at interview". I have had 3 so far. Good luck to you, honey, and remember, what goes around, comes around. They'll get theirs in the end, just you wait.

Guest343211 · Mar 26, 2009

Most of the time you must fill out electronic applications. If you do not fill in reason for leaving, it will prompt you that the application will NOT go further.

The HR systems are well throughtout anymore. Just be careful what you put in that part of the electronic application--but remember, mostly anymore, your application will not go through until you fill in the spaces they deem as mandatory. You'll get red letter messages or something to that effect, and you will not be able to complete the application and it will not go forward.

Terminiated for asking too many questions. LOL (not to diminish your pain or frustration angel fire,) but this kind of nonsense is all too typical of the field of nursing. I wonder if we put all the nurses together that were "let go" for alls such essentially bogus nonsense, it could fill up many football stadiums and air fields. Yet the lunancy in the "profession" seems to go on and on. Thanks to AT-Will-Employment. Some places make you sign a form that states that you will not sue them if terminated, but that you will go through some mediator program. Now, please tell me how truly unbiased the mediator and the system will be? *Shaking head*

Yes, they will get theres, when there are dramatically less nurses unwilling to put up or even standby and watch such antics happen to fellow nurses. Remember. If you watch these games happenn to others, regardless of what you think and how safe you think you are, they can most definitely happen to you. Don't think they won't. That's why I don't play such games--plus I find bogus firings unethical and unprofessional in general.

You really have to pray a lot and be so very careful in this field. At the same time, you shouldn't have to compromise who you are and what you believe in just to have a job. And you should become as overtly or covertly sneaky, distorted in sharing "truth," and cut throat to be "safe" and remain in your nursing position or be promoted. I know so many nurses who ended up playing this way, and in due season--give time--it came back on them. Call it Karma. Call it reaping what you sow. Call divine justice. But it WILL come back to you. Stick up for fellow nurses. Be open and understanding and do what's right. Even if you lose in doing so for some reason, in the end--the bigger picture, you will will. And you will not have to compromise who you are and what you know in your soul to be true.

StatBlues · Aug 4, 2009

Most of the time you must fill out electronic applications. If you do not fill in reason for leaving, it will prompt you that the application will NOT go further.
The HR systems are well throughtout anymore. Just be careful what you put in that part of the electronic application--but remember, mostly anymore, your application will not go through until you fill in the spaces they deem as mandatory. You'll get red letter messages or something to that effect, and you will not be able to complete the application and it will not go forward.
Terminiated for asking too many questions. LOL (not to diminish your pain or frustration angel fire,) but this kind of nonsense is all too typical of the field of nursing. I wonder if we put all the nurses together that were "let go" for alls such essentially bogus nonsense, it could fill up many football stadiums and air fields. Yet the lunancy in the "profession" seems to go on and on. Thanks to AT-Will-Employment. Some places make you sign a form that states that you will not sue them if terminated, but that you will go through some mediator program. Now, please tell me how truly unbiased the mediator and the system will be? *Shaking head*
Yes, they will get theres, when there are dramatically less nurses unwilling to put up or even standby and watch such antics happen to fellow nurses. Remember. If you watch these games happenn to others, regardless of what you think and how safe you think you are, they can most definitely happen to you. Don't think they won't. That's why I don't play such games--plus I find bogus firings unethical and unprofessional in general.
You really have to pray a lot and be so very careful in this field. At the same time, you shouldn't have to compromise who you are and what you believe in just to have a job. And you should become as overtly or covertly sneaky, distorted in sharing "truth," and cut throat to be "safe" and remain in your nursing position or be promoted. I know so many nurses who ended up playing this way, and in due season--give time--it came back on them. Call it Karma. Call it reaping what you sow. Call divine justice. But it WILL come back to you. Stick up for fellow nurses. Be open and understanding and do what's right. Even if you lose in doing so for some reason, in the end--the bigger picture, you will will. And you will not have to compromise who you are and what you know in your soul to be true.

Have you worked in HR ? :nurse: