Message #65972

[queenbean]

I think everyone is entitled to one blip on their CV, no matter how short the period of employment but it's when a pattern develops that it'll raise a red flag to a potential employer and will likely go against you (even if it's an unfair assumption).

My blip was a job for just 3 months where it turned out I was completely unsuited to the company's structure.  I had come from a very flat-structured, innovative company and I moved to something much more hierarchical thinking that I wanted to try something different.  I was strangled with red tape from the beginning and it simply didn't suit me, and my gut feeling on my first day was the same as on my last that it was just a horrible mistake.

I think as long as you're very honest about why you leave a job so quickly, then an employer ought to understand.   And it helps to be able to put a positive spin on it - I always explain that it was a poor decision on my part, but the experience helped me learn a lot about myself and identified the type of organisation I now know I'm suited to (and those which I'm not!)

QB