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Must I admit to deferred adjudication on an application?

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 03:04 AM PDT

Question by : Must I admit to deferred adjudication on an application?
I am applying for a receptionist/front desk position in a hotel spa… Due to some stupid things I have done, I am on deferred adjudication… On the application is asks:
“Have you ever been given deferred adjudication or plead guilty or no contest for anything other than a traffic violation?” Yes or No.

Should I admit to my deferred adjudication? Isn’t the purpose of being on deferred adjudication so that employers can’t see your record?

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Answer by hrgirl1701
Deferred adjudication merely means you took an alternate route to conviction and sentencing and basically implies a plea of ‘guilty’.

A rule of thumb: Always be honest on an application because it WILL show up on a record if they check your background. But I would do your best to explain the circumstances on the application itself. Don’t say ‘Will discuss at interview’ because that implies there is a complicated situation behind it and the hiring manager is free to come up with their own ideas of what happened.

Be brief but up front and you will find a lot of employers don’t care, so long as you have a clean record since then and the problem doesn’t involve theft. It’s better to take a chance that the employer will be understanding and hire you for your credentials than to lie and almost guarantee you won’t get the job!

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