Layoff question
please help me with this question. During HR or hiring manager interview phone calls , when they ask “why are you looking for new opportunity” is it okay to tell that i was laid off, which is the actual case.
Just tell them you left to pursue better opportunities. Don’t give them any reasons to hesitate hiring you.
being honest and suggesting that you had been "laid-off" is typically not wrong, because down-sizing, re-orgs happen almost always all the time everywhere. although "terminated" is a hard-no vocabulary, because it blatantly suggests there was a fault on your side. "let-go" is a more sympathetic terminology that makes people think you had no fault.
It’s fine as long as you were actually laid off and not fired.
no..never say you were laid off, they will not move forward even a shit company don't call you for the interview. say something like this, you accepted an offer from a company now they rescinded the offer due to company restructuring. all the best.
Just be honest. It would be worse if they found out through the background check and you lied.
How does background check come up with layoff information?
Depends on how they do it, how they verify your previous employment. How are you sure it doesn’t?