Can a Tyco PIP affect employability/hiring relative to MDT?

[anonymous]

Worked for Tyco Healthcare for years with good reviews. But in the end was PIP'd & dismissed a few months before it became Covidien. The question I now ask - Will this hurt my employment chances including application and interviewing with MDT? Does MDT's HR have access to the archives of personnel files for folks such as myself with regards to the time frame and course of events? Or has so much change and time elapsed between the past and present which would have sunken-n-buried the baggage?

Should I continue to pursue employment with MDT confidently at full speed ahead and not let events of the past at Tyco cause concern and worry relative to the present (i.e. with MDT)?

 

[anonymous]

Worked for Tyco Healthcare for years with good reviews. But in the end was PIP'd & dismissed a few months before it became Covidien. The question I now ask - Will this hurt my employment chances including application and interviewing with MDT? Does MDT's HR have access to the archives of personnel files for folks such as myself with regards to the time frame and course of events? Or has so much change and time elapsed between the past and present which would have sunken-n-buried the baggage?

Should I continue to pursue employment with MDT confidently at full speed ahead and not let events of the past at Tyco cause concern and worry relative to the present (i.e. with MDT)?

Is your former manager or AVP still with the company? If not, and you're applying to a division that is not a legacy Covidien business, I think you're probably ok.

 

[anonymous]

Be prepared to explain why you can't use your last manager at TYCO as a reference. Or have other remaining references that support you that are current employees.

 

[anonymous]

Is your former manager or AVP still with the company? If not, and you're applying to a division that is not a legacy Covidien business, I think you're probably ok.

Yes my former manager is still with the company and I believe the AVP is not. Will be applying only to non-Covidien sites.

 

[anonymous]

Who would want to trust any management over there anyway?

 

[Hire Winners Not Losers]

I really hope they find your records, because why would MDT want a loser sales person who can't sell? Do you know how frickin hard it is to get fired from a Medical Device job? You probably couldn't sell toilet paper to a diarrhea ward, yet you feel like you are “entitled” to get another professional sales position with MDT. What a joke.

 

[anonymous]

Im sorry to hear that your situation from years ago is becoming an issue again. It isn't relevant if the manager that terminated you is still with the organization.Your employee records will be researched and the company will eventually find out you were terminated (and yes, they still have the records), so I would not try to omit this fact during your interviews. Lies of omission are a fireable offense at Medtronic. I would be 100% honest and forthcoming with whomever you are interviewing with about what led to your termination and how you learned from the experience. Its really the only chance you have. Good luck.

 

[anonymous]

Your employee records will be researched and the company will eventually find out you were terminated (and yes, they still have the records), so I would not try to omit this fact during your interviews.

The key question -- do they still retain records in that such detail from an employee who was terminated before Tyco became Covidien nine (9) yrs. ago? Or general info like dates and titles? Given the timeline and the fact that Tyco got flipped to COV then MDT you would think there'd be some purging to an effect no?