Archived question for HR people?

[newbury2]

I'm recently reentering the job market after a short time (about 9 months) off of it - I had to care for my ailing husband, as he recovered from emergency surgery. Anyways, my last job was as a cashier at wally world, but I only did that for about a year. previously I had been with target for five years, and moved when I got married - unfortunately I had to quit because the nearest target was over 30 miles away!

I really want to apply for a leadership position at a retailer nearby, but they say I need at least 3 months leadership experience to do so. While at target I was not in a formal "leadership" position, but in my last 6 months with the company I was on what was then called the "team leader bench" I don't know if you guys still have anything like that - but I had a lot of informal responsibilities associated with leadership - delegating tasks, ensuring we finished every night (and no I was not a GSA).

Would target maintain any information that I was on the team lead bench when I left? would they verify that for prospective employers? Would they deny it if I listed it? I spoke with this retailer's local hiring manager, and he said he "may" consider it as relevant experience, but that it was up to the corporate background check if I could even get an interview. Does anyone know what target would tell their third party background verification service?

 

[cmat21]

I'm recently reentering the job market after a short time (about 9 months) off of it - I had to care for my ailing husband, as he recovered from emergency surgery. Anyways, my last job was as a cashier at wally world, but I only did that for about a year. previously I had been with target for five years, and moved when I got married - unfortunately I had to quit because the nearest target was over 30 miles away!

I really want to apply for a leadership position at a retailer nearby, but they say I need at least 3 months leadership experience to do so. While at target I was not in a formal "leadership" position, but in my last 6 months with the company I was on what was then called the "team leader bench" I don't know if you guys still have anything like that - but I had a lot of informal responsibilities associated with leadership - delegating tasks, ensuring we finished every night (and no I was not a GSA).

Would target maintain any information that I was on the team lead bench when I left? would they verify that for prospective employers? Would they deny it if I listed it? I spoke with this retailer's local hiring manager, and he said he "may" consider it as relevant experience, but that it was up to the corporate background check if I could even get an interview. Does anyone know what target would tell their third party background verification service?

About the only way this will have any relevance is if you're applying at the store you already worked at and/or your store has a member if management who knew you were on the bench. Most likely situation though is that Target will make you start from the ground up. I started to consider being an HR TM months ago, but that never panned out so I couldnt say for sure.

 

[babysitrmk]

Target will not give references or answer any questions about team members. In order to even get employee verification you have to call a 1800 number and they look up the person. That's all you can get from target, just verification that you worked there...