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Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Yikes - background check!
I recently accepted and started a new job. Like most companies, this company performed a background check on me. I had to fill out some paperwork - prior positions, supervisor name, phone number, salary, when I graduated, etc etc - and the background check came back with an exception. For one employer, I rounded my salary up to the nearest hundredth - but my previous employer confirmed my *exact* salary. Now the difference was only $125 but that scared the holy heck out of me. Obviously the "exception" didn't matter because it was obviously rounding but this goes to show you SHOULD NOT EVER lie about salary information!!
Re: Yikes - background check!
I have never given it.
And companies have never had a problem with the omission of my salary.
THey're going to ask you what salary you are looking for, anyway -- and sometimes they'll say "We are only offering X a year; we cannot deviate from this figure. Is this acceptable? if yes, we will continue with the interview; if not, we will say goodbye."
You shouldn't lie about anything on your resume. It will only come back to bite you in the arse.
I'm glad it worked out OK for you.
Our little Irish rose came to us on March 5, 2010
Don't drink the water.
Disclaimer: I am not an MD. Please don't PM me with pregnancy-related questions. Ask your doctor.
Good piece of advice to job seekers!
As a hiring manager, the $125 difference would not have mattered to me. Now a lie that ranges in the thousands, might be a deal breaker.
This would also have come up as an issue in my company. If it was the only issue, not a problem. If it was one of others, then there would be greater weight given to it. We've rescinded offers over things like this. We're a very conservative company when it comes to stuff like this, and we strongly coach people filling out an application that accuracy is crucial.