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Sears still exists
In my opinion, having any of these on your resume would be useless at best, and detrimental on average, assuming you’re applying for a job you actually desire and that there’s at least one competent hiring manager involved in the process.
That advice comes with the usual caveats and nuances. Keeping it short (by my standards), there are obviously exceptions and circumstances where this doesn’t necessarily apply.
Unless you’ve got a VERY good reason for it, having a job that you left 10+ years ago on your resume is usually not a good look. That’s especially true if it’s with businesses that have crashed and burned.
For numerous, numerous reasons, it’s a caution flag at best for most positions. It can come across as you playing the “you can’t prove I didn’t work there” card, that you don’t actually have a lot going on career-wise so you’re padding your resume with old stuff that doesn’t actually show your current skill set / work ethic, or that you’ve stalled career-wise such that a high-level job from a decade ago is essentially where you peaked, and so on.
The thing is, it may be true that none of that applies to you, that you’re actually a great worker, have up to date skills, etc but when employers are getting hundreds or thousands of resumes per open position, they get really selective and persnickety about who deserves more attention and who goes back into the digital abyss.
AND ALSO: RadioShack management would almost certainly be detrimental on a resume, based on personal experience. Even in the good times, they had largely a terrible reputation. Personally, I think I only ever had one good experience with a RadioShack manager and that was 40+ years ago. While store managers and regional managers are not the same thing, the store managers are reflective of the corporate culture that regional managers are responsible for. So, a regional manager would have even more blame for the poor corporate environment.
Wait…sorry having a job that’s older than ten years old is a red flag? How do you think folks who have to prove 10+ years experience do it?
Don’t you think “have to prove 10+ years experience” would qualify as a very good reason? I mean, I was pretty specific with that wording and even mentioned this…
That advice comes with the usual caveats and nuances. Keeping it short (by my standards), there are obviously exceptions and circumstances where this doesn’t necessarily apply.
Well, assistant regional manager
Assistant to the regional manager.
I get it, but a background check can prove you weren’t.
Agreed. A friend had a background check done for government work, and in their case if they lied it was a felony charge.
Can you imagine that? “What are you in for?” “I… I lied about working for Sears.”
I’ll be honest they won’t bother to prosecute that. I know of a few people that lied on their resume for the feds. They just got banned from applying to government jobs for 10 years.
Of course they can always decide to prosecute, but they’re not going to bother unless your lie makes you actually get in and you use your position to defraud the government in some other way.
Or they have some other reason they don’t like you. Under Trump this could be your social media posts these days
I believe the joke is that the companies no longer exist.
Yes, but federal tax records can be used to corroborate an individual’s previous employment regardless of whether the business is still active
Not their position though
That’s why I was CEO of Apple. I taught to Tim Apple everything he knows. Which actually explains a lot really.
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Is there an echo in here?
They get it.
They’re unlikely to check your references even if they weren’t defunct. Ain’t nobody got time for that shit. Lie your ass off on your resume/application.
Everyone knows you only check references after there is a problem.
I graduated from (a two year) college at age fifteen. Lots of HR people have doubted that. Only one has ever bothered to verify it … And that was at a sales job, not somewhere my degree would have mattered.
Unless you were obviously 5 years old when they closed.
Youngest manager in history.
Boss baby was a documentary
I love a go-getter, take charge attitude from someone with the proper grindset. It’s never too early to build experience!
Wouldn’t it be wild to interview with the person who was actually the manager at the time.
Who would want to mention any of these tanked companies on their resume, not really an accomplishment.
Because it isn’t the responsibility of staff members if the c-suite management make dumb decisions. And no one knows that better than managers themselves.
The managers interviewing you at BestBuy aren’t gonna blame the managers at RadioShack for RadioShack going out of business. If you think being a retail manager is not enough of an accomplishment to put in a resume then this meme just isn’t aimed at your tax bracket.
Not just manager… REGIONAL manager. For a national chain.
That’s not a position to sneeze at - you’re in charge of some major money and logistics at that level.
Me. I worked at RadioShack right out of high school. It shows that even as a dumb teenager, I already knew what I was talking about enough to help people with their electronics bullshit, and it shows a long history of it. Now, it’s a bullshit retail job, and as such doesn’t show up on my resume all the time, but it’s still relevant to those who know what that store was all about, even to its bitter end.
I’ve put failed companies on my resume. It ain’t my fault they went out of business and anyway it provides something to talk about. I can always claim that I’ve learnt lessons from the experience (the lesson learnt was that when the company looks like it’s about to go tits up, you start applying for new jobs because you ain’t getting that final paycheck)
