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If you've previously been made redundant, should you list that under your work history? Concerned that without mentioning redundancy it looks a bit odd that I was in my last role for only 2 months
Do you actually need to list the two-month job at all? In my estimation, that short a time would not represent a serious enough time-gap to raise any suspicions or concerns were you to just omit it entirely.
EDIT: I should add that I am responsible for hiring people with moderate regularity.
It's 2 months on since being made redundant so that gap is now a 4 month gap 🙂
Ah, I see. In which case, you might list it like this:
date hired - date released (redundancy); place of work; job title
(in whatever order your format takes)
I'd put it there, it shows you did the role and were not fired (unless it was redundancy of 1) also helps to lead on to the conversation about looking for a serious long term position etc. hows the company going, whats your next 3 years looking like?
Yeah I'd reference it in a way like SaxonRider suggests. I wouldn't omit it as discussing the time gap may come up at interview and might be seen negatively then if it looks like you were trying to hide it. Was it actually redundancy though, I would have thought you'd have been on a probation period (although maybe that still counts as redundancy, not sure what else it would be called really...)
Was it actually redundancy though
Company was liquidated, so everyone was made redundant. As it's within a probationary period I didn't qualify for any redundancy pay but I think it still is technically redundancy.
Why not just say that the previous company folded soon after you joined them?
yeah, work it into your details for the role as the concluding line
Why not just say that the previous company folded soon after you joined them?
Worded that way makes it sound as though my joining and the company folding were linked 🙂
I've mentioned redundancy as a reason for not being in a job very long, it doesn't seem to have caused me any issues. It's not like it's a rare thing these days.
Worded that way makes it sound as though my joining and the company folding were linked
Ok, how about this?
"I joined **my-last-employer** at a juncture, unbeknown to me, where they were undergoing financial problems resulting in all the employees being made redundant soon after."