Worried About Overlapping Job Dates Early in Your Career? Will It Haunt You Forever?

1. I was employed by employer X for one year at the start of my career and resigned after serving the notice period. I requested employer Y, a workforce management firm that outsources employees to its clients, to change my joining date as there was an overlap of 10 days. Employer Y instructed me to report after completing my notice period with employer X and did not bother to amend my joining date on the offer letter. Years later, employer Z (the client I worked for while employed with employer Y) offered me a permanent position. Employer Z had no issue with the 10-day overlap I had during my transitions between employers X and Y. This situation arose both at the beginning and during the course of my employment. Subsequently, I received a better offer from employer A, who also had no concerns regarding the 10-day overlap with my previous employers during the beginning and throughout my employment. I now have an offer for a superior position from employer B.

Question: Impact of Overlapping Employment Dates

My question is, "Can this 'black mark' of having overlapping relieving and joining dates at the start of my career continue to affect me throughout my career?"

Note: All the employers mentioned, except for employer Y, are top MNCs in India listed in the Fortune 100.

Time Lapsed Between Job Changes

How much time elapsed between the first and last change of jobs?

From the post, it is found that there appears to be an overlap between the probable date of joining mentioned in the offer letter issued by Y and the date of relieving mentioned in the relieving orders or the experience certificate given by X. The probable date of joining mentioned in the offer letter and the actual date of joining can differ at times. Service commences only from the date of actual joining. It can be explained with reference to the salary slips as well as the experience letter, if any, issued by Y. Therefore, actually, there cannot be an overlap of the poster's employment between X and Y.

Have you been paid by both X & Y for the overlapping period? If not, then there is no cause for any worry. It seems very unlikely that any organization would look for such long past data as long as your other particulars are found to be satisfactory on verification.