Does it hurt your hiring prospect if you reveal you were laid off?
May 18, 2020
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I received a rejection from Atlassian after onsite, despite the fact that my tech interviews went fine. I had revealed to the hiring manager upfront that I got laidoff. Speculating what went wrong there, how likely is it that I got rejection because of the layoff status?
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It might hurt in negotiating salary if the manager is a low baller, but it is likely to improve your chances of getting hired.
I would absolutely tell you that being laid off hurts your chances of finding another job.
You become less desirable and the old advice that it is always easier to find a job when you have a job is true.
People can say what they want but this absolutely factors into hiring conversations and salary discussion. We recently offered a guy a .4 of band because he was coming from Uber after being laid off.
Not the right thing to do but if we can catch you desperate and for a bargain we will.
Source: L6 Recruiter
A recruiter should know this.