I've thought about excluding an employer from my resume. I left Google in April, worked at another company for 6 months, didn't like it and resigned, and started at Strava (which I'm loving) in November. I have a decision to make: do I include or omit the 6 month job on my resume?
A resume, and a LinkedIn profile, are about getting hired while telling the relevant truth. It's putting the relevant experience in front of the recruiter, interviewers, and hiring team. If I feel that I didn't learn much at the 6 month job, I may omit it - not to wipe my history, not to hide anything, but because I may conclude it's not useful or relevant to the hiring company.
Resumes should tell the truth. They should be trimmed to be most relevant. And maybe that's omitting irrelevant career experience.
A resume is a sales brochure. It is you marketing yourself. When I apply to jobs, I edit my resume to emphasize the experience and knowledge I think makes me most suitable for the job I'm applying for. To do otherwise would be doing a disservice to myself.
If prospective hires are expected to not do this, it would seem only fair for the potential employee to ask the company to provide a full history of all its interactions with employees, both happy and unhappy.
A resume, and a LinkedIn profile, are about getting hired while telling the relevant truth. It's putting the relevant experience in front of the recruiter, interviewers, and hiring team. If I feel that I didn't learn much at the 6 month job, I may omit it - not to wipe my history, not to hide anything, but because I may conclude it's not useful or relevant to the hiring company.
Resumes should tell the truth. They should be trimmed to be most relevant. And maybe that's omitting irrelevant career experience.