Spots in the biography

Read us in Telegram Experience. Corinn Miles Managing Director of Personal Career Management. The spots and misconduct standing behind them are different - from the most trivial to serious. Useful retouching how best to play this party? If this is not you, they can fire you. Therefore, first of all, you do not need to lie, ”says Nigel Parlow, the managing director of the British unit of the Hedhanting company Harvey Nash.

Therefore, you have the right to concentrate on your positive aspects and retire the negative. ” Corinn Maylls, the managing director of Personal Career Management, says: “It surprises me as many people usually have to attract attention to their shortcomings. They seem to want to report them to the whole world. The mistake is that candidates provide too much information about themselves.

” Among the examples of such behavior are stories about how you were reduced after many years of work in one place or memories of the bad ratings that you received at the university many years ago. The painful question by the words of Maylls, other people feel an inexplicable desire to tell in detail about their health, even when they are not asked about it.

Nevertheless, she adds, if you were sick for a long time, you will have to talk on this topic with the employer. Open cards if you were asked a direct question about what you tried to conceal in a resume, it is better to open cards. Look for an answer to them until you find a plausible option that you can confidently offer the employer, ”explains Miranda Kennett from the Coaching company First Class Coach.

But is negative experience always bad? In reality, people who have been in difficult circumstances are often more useful and more experienced than those who have everything went like clockwork, ”says Moren. Time smooths out the consequences of negative experience. Nevertheless, he says, it is more difficult to deny numerous mistakes: "Everyone can make a mistake, but if you make two or three in a row, the matter looks like a problem in you." If your affairs are really bad, then the mores advise considering the option of work in other sectors, for which you should contact the company to change your career and use your personal ties as much as possible: “If your resume is really no good, ask friends who occupy a good position in your profession, vouch for you.” Evaluation of honest according to researchers from the London Business School and the University of North Carolina, applicants who honestly spoke at the interview not only about their virtues, but also about the disadvantages, later were more satisfied with work and more loyal against the employer.

Daniel Kabel, an invited professor for organizational behavior at the London Business School, and the candidate of science Virginia Kay from the University of North Carolina also found out that honest applicants later received higher grades of their work. Researchers considered the behavior of applicants within the framework of a psychological theory about a person’s desire for self -testing, i.e.

scientists have found that contrary to the previously adopted theory, not all people are equally striving for self -testing. According to scientists, such applicants are more successful at work, because thanks to their openness, the employer during the interview was able to get a more complete picture of the personality of the future employee and made the right decision on hiring.