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In the April 9, 2019 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter a felony stands between a reader and a job. Nearly every position I have found that I am qualified for in logistics is off limits to anyone with a felony within the past seven years

The site aggregates job listings from thousands of websites, including job boards, staffing firms, associations, and company career pages. The report claims to be a “quantitative survey” of more than “1,000 customers using SilkRoad’s applicant tracking system (SilkRoad Recruiting),” based on “15 Million Applicants, 392,00 Hires, 655,000 Interviews. It breaks the “sources” of hires into two categories: * Internal Sources of Hire: employee and personal referrals, HR, a company’s own careers web page, and internal employee movement like promotions If the oldest job-board watchdog gives up on trying to suss out the “Source of Hires” after over a decade of trying, what’s up with SilkRoad’s conclusion that Indeed is the source of 65% of any kinds of hires?

I started talking to Company B about a new job and after a few interviews things were looking really good. Would your termination (and the facts surrounding it) at Company A make a material difference in your ability to do the job properly at Company B? If not, I see no reason to disclose that you’re no longer employed by Company A (or that you were fired) if you prefer not to. One is that I didn’t want to work at my old company any more and as of a few days ago — after we started talking —

I know there are other things to consider, but it’s such a big pay bump that I think it may be sufficient reason to move. If I were you, I’d compare the new company to your current employer on these factors, in this order of importance: Whose are better? You may have found a good job and great money, but the financial gain from that big salary bump may be very short-lived if those other factors aren’t strong. If the company declines to let you come back in, I’d refuse the job offer, no matter how great the money is.