Three months at a company that wasn't what they described. Do I put it on the resume or leave the gap?
Left after three months. Role was sold as backend, turned out to be almost entirely manual data cleanup with no path off it. Nothing dramatic, no burned bridges, just wrong.
Now I'm applying again and I keep rewriting this section. Leave it on and answer "why so short" in every single screen, or leave it off and have a three month gap that's honestly the easier conversation?
Which one do hiring managers actually mind less? I've had confident advice in both directions.
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AnonymousAnon Leave it on. A gap gets you "so what were you doing" with a faint air of suspicion. Three months gets you "what happened", which you answer in one clean sentence. "The role turned out to be manual data cleanup with no path to backend work" is a completely normal thing to say and I've never seen anyone blink at it.
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AnonymousAnon Whichever way you go, make the resume and LinkedIn match exactly. I got caught out once with dates that were a month apart and spent the first five minutes of a screen explaining a discrepancy instead of talking about my work. Miserable way to open a call.