Education Strategy

I was terminated from my previous job. Could my ex-employer say any negative things that will reflect on my chances on getting a job?

The Career Doctor responds:

Possible? Yes. Likely? No.

Given our litigious society, employers are getting more and more tight-lipped about what they say about former employees so that it does not come back to haunt them.

That said, most employers will state that you were terminated, and some may state whether you were fired for cause or simply terminated so, you need to face the fact that in many cases, a prospective new employer may very well know you were fired.

But I think you need to spend less time worrying about what a former employer might say about you and more time on how you are dealing with being fired and what you have learned from the experience.

From my work with job-seekers, I know that getting terminated whether for cause or downsized is tough on the ego, so you need to pick yourself up off the ground, shake off the termination, and go right back out there and seek new employment.

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