ARGHHH 10-year employment history form!!!

[Andrew_VT]

I have an interview coming up and I'm having a hard time studying because of all the work I'm putting into tracking down all the little jobs I've had that gave me W-2s....its impossible. I've been able to use tax records to get the years, but as for starting and ending dates, or even months, I'm guessing here. I hope winter '01, fall '02, ect is acceptable. For some jobs I cant even remember the season!

Does anyone know if guessing at dates will get me in trouble?

Alot of these businesses do not even exist anymore! One W-2 employer was only for 2 weeks (a Phish Concert!), and I just found a one saturday night gig as a dishwasher at a wedding where I made $66.00 that I have to report because I got a damn W-2 from it!!! GRRRR

[Weekendwarrior]

I figure as long as you don't overlap your employment dates it should be okay.

[GreenDayPilot]

Yeah, it does sucks... about a year ago I sat down, made some research of previous employers (numbers, dates, etc.), and jotted it all down on a word doc... needless to say, I feel your pain

[Minnesota_Flyer]

Yeah. I had to do it for the Navy, and it blew enough that I've kept it up since so I wouldn't have to go through that again. (Having now been in the same job for 8 years also helps.) Good luck.

[MQAAord]

Learn from this y'all! Keep a detailed work, education and residential record starting now! Keep it updated, and not only have it on your hard drive, put it on a floppy/USB drive backup, AND have a printed out copy in a lockbox or other safe place somewhere. Having all that info neat and handy in one place makes filling out applications so much easier!

[JEP]

Originally Posted by Minnesota_Flyer

Yeah. I had to do it for the Navy, and it blew enough that I've kept it up since so I wouldn't have to go through that again. (Having now been in the same job for 8 years also helps.) Good luck.

/high jack.......


didn't realize you were Navy.....?

went up today to knock out some ipc work and got .2 actual..... w00t!!!!


/back to regularly scheduled programming....

[pilotty]

Do you need W-2's for each job you have held? I thought it was for those that were no longer in business. I am still waiting to read a reply from someone who has done this for xjet, comair, pinnacle or any other regional so we know what they want. Good question Andrew

[Andrew_VT]

Well, I finally finished getting approxmate dates and trying to remember supervisor names. I'm still blank on a few names but i just gave their position title.

I did realize that my employment history looks really bad! One former supervisor is dead, one place of employment burned down and went out of business, and I've had alot of jobs that lasted less than a month. It was because one was a short term job at a Phish Concert, one was a one nighter as a dishwasher at a wedding, and then a bunch of seasonal jobs, ski resort in winter and dock guy in summer, but you cant tell that by looking at the history!

[Proximity]

Don't worry to much. All you can do is provide as much info as you know, where you worked and what the phone number was back then. When they do your background check and the place doesn't exist anymore then they've done their due diligence.

[flyguy]

Originally Posted by pilotty

I am still waiting to read a reply from someone who has done this for xjet, comair, pinnacle or any other regional so we know what they want. Good question Andrew

I can testify for SkyWest. On the application they just want dates to the nearest month, and phone numbers of your last 3 jobs. They don't specify a time period, just the last 3. Apparently they don't even check up on them because my most recent employer still hasn't been contacted. If you get hired, on your first day you'll have to provide fairly detailed information on any 121 or 135 job you've held in the last 5 years. That's it. No non-aviation, not even flight instruction. I had no 121 or 135 experience so they told me to leave the forms blank. For previous 121 and 135 it should be pretty easy to give dates as you can look them up in your logbook, and probably have lots of documentation for them.

[launchpad]

another thing that might help you is if you were in School during any of those temporary jobs. If you were, it's generally accepted that your school was your full time employment, and that's all you have to put down. If you're unsure of using that method, then just call whoever you're applying to and ask. Generally what they're looking for on these background checks is that you were getting money through legitimate channels and not on a crime spree.

[Minnesota_Flyer]

Originally Posted by JEP

/high jack.......


didn't realize you were Navy.....?

went up today to knock out some ipc work and got .2 actual..... w00t!!!!


/back to regularly scheduled programming....

Yeah, not really. I was "in for a grand total of about 5 weeks. Shoulda stayed, but decided law school was the better deal. WRONG! [/hj]

[jtrain609]

Originally Posted by Minnesota_Flyer

Yeah, not really. I was "in for a grand total of about 5 weeks. Shoulda stayed, but decided law school was the better deal. WRONG! [/hj]

Naw man, if you had stayed in you woulda been like, "THIS SUCKS, LAW SHOULD WOULD HAVE ROCKED IT!"

[Minnesota_Flyer]

Originally Posted by jtrain609

Naw man, if you had stayed in you woulda been like, "THIS SUCKS, LAW WOULD HAVE ROCKED IT!"

So true.

[Doug Taylor]

Originally Posted by jtrain609

Naw man, if you had stayed in you woulda been like, "THIS SUCKS, LAW SHOULD WOULD HAVE ROCKED IT!"

Where does a country boy from Michigan learn such speak?