After working as an Amazon entrepreneur for a while, I want to go back to work in a corporate company. How can I justify myself during the interview?

I have seen many of my partners who worked at Amazon for a few years and then started their own business. They did not work in a company for 1-2 years, but found that it was not stable enough and wanted to go back to work, start a business while working, or just settle down in class.

So, at this point, the date on the previous resignation certificate no longer matches. What should I do during the interview? Should I make a fake resignation certificate, or should I honestly say that I have been starting a business in the past few years?

1. If I make a fake certificate of resignation, will it be easily discovered through background check?
2. If you are honest, the company will be more cautious and think that you have a store and have bad intentions. Will you secretly sell the company's hot products after you join the company? You should know that many companies will ask you to fill out forms when you join the company, asking you if you have your own store and other various surveys. Or what should I say?

How do you all deal with it? Let’s see what the big guys have to share.

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Anonymous user

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I also have a company and an account under my name. I have had it since 2018, but I have rarely operated it myself over the years. Most of the time I have been working for others. During this period, I also encountered a company that needed a lot of ID card registration information for distribution. The company provided subsidies to employees, but it was voluntary. I just didn't sign up to participate.

Based on my personal experience over the years, I don't need to worry too much.

First, Amazon operators want to register a company and apply for their own account. This is a very low threshold thing that cannot be prohibited or avoided at all.

Secondly, even if an old employee of the company wants to, he can work on his own account while working in the company, and can even directly copy the company's popular products. Which company boss would require that his employees are absolutely not allowed to have their own accounts? I'm afraid no boss would regard this as a company rule. Even if someone uses his relative's ID card to register, isn't it fine?

So regarding the issue of starting your own business without social security and a resignation certificate, you can respond based on the attitude of the company you are interviewing with;

If the interview is with a company that likes to ask questions and has a lot of clauses and details, you can just say that you have entrepreneurial experience. Because if you enter such a company, even if you don't have entrepreneurial experience, you will feel uncomfortable. For someone who has entrepreneurial experience, such a company is not suitable for you.

If it is an open-ended question, they are more willing to listen to your thoughts and experiences. They mainly want to know your understanding and experience of Amazon operations. They don’t care whether you have your own company and account. If you didn’t pay social security for one or two years, they may guess that you started your own business for a while. But if they think you are a responsible and hardworking person during the interview, they generally won’t bring up the topic.

If the other party still wants to confirm, then you should try to be low-key and say that you had this idea before and tried it for a while and found it was much more difficult than you thought, so you think it is more suitable for you to work in a company and do operations. You have no idea of ​​starting a business for the time being. This statement is generally acceptable.

Because not only in the interview process, the other party needs to examine you. After you join the company, they will also see from your account operation whether you want to come to the company to work and create profits for the company to get a high income or you have two hearts. This can also be observed in daily work~ Of course, you are the same to the company. You can also see whether the boss has given you a certain degree of trust and operating power after joining the company~ I think the employment relationship is also a two-way process, which is also the most reasonable state

So don't be cowardly because of your experience, as if it has become a stain on the interview ~ or because of this experience, people question you and try to control you (that is, workplace PUA). This is just a very common experience. It is a decision made based on your personal ideas. There was an error in the execution process. You just chose to stop the loss in time ~ It's no big deal. Relax and cheer up ~ I wish you all the best

Blueinlb • Chengdu • 2024-12-04 16:41

Your level is much higher than those people in the building. How should I put it? There is still a big gap in thinking between working and starting a business.

Anonymous user • Shenzhen • 2024-12-04 18:53

@蓝inlb: Thanks for the compliment~ Just think about it from another perspective. I didn’t do anything wrong, so why did I end up in such a passive position~ It’s hard enough to fail in entrepreneurship, and it takes a lot of courage to find a job, and then I have to face these workplace bullying...

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Agree from: Wukong10086, Orangeabcd, Cross-border Bird, 3470002, HumanI Melancholy Guest More »

If you really need this job and are determined to work hard, then I think white lies are acceptable. After all, many companies are reluctant to hire people who have worked alone, and if you tell the truth, you will most likely be rejected.

Question 1: Did you stop paying social security for more than a year because you were unemployed? - Have you been away from Amazon for a long time?
A: I worked for a small startup company last time. I didn't have a basic account, but I had a good relationship with my boss, so I stopped paying social security after negotiation. If they ask why I left, I'll say the startup went bankrupt. If the HR continues to dig deeper and asks for the phone number of the previous person in charge, I'll give you a friend's phone number to smooth things over.

Question 2: What if they find out that you have a company under your name? - Check whether you have ever worked alone
A: Because the previous company lacked operating accounts, they negotiated with you to register a set of accounts using your information. This reason is generally acceptable to companies, because many large cross-border e-commerce companies negotiate with employees to borrow information for registration.

Absolutely impossible

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It's okay to say openly that your business failed and you want to come to work. It's best not to forge anything, although companies basically won't do any background checks nowadays.

Before the interview, I would check whether the interviewee has a company, when the company was founded, and the changes in the company, etc., mainly to see if this information matches your resume; if you register a store with your own identity, and then say you don’t have one during the interview, I will definitely not consider hiring you for such an obvious lie. Don’t worry too much about whether your identity as an entrepreneur will affect your employment. In fact, people who have started a business have more dimensions of thinking than ordinary operators, and wise bosses will not pass you up because of this past.

Wanyu Shengxuan • Guangzhou • 2024-12-02 12:05

It should be said that the bosses who dare to employ you all have their own core supply chain. Didn't you also get rid of those companies with low barriers to entry? Didn't you fail in your own business and still not realize that the right time, right place and right people are the right time. The right time means the product is on the trend, the right place means the company's supply chain is strong, and the right people means that you have the ability and the company provides resources.

Tomoex • Guangzhou • 2024-12-03 13:54

But in fact, most bosses will still mind. Although I also think that people who have started their own businesses will be more comprehensive and better able to control the overall rhythm, but in fact, it is still not that easy to return to the workplace.

Unobvious ID • Shenzhen • 2024-12-03 15:23

As a boss, you should consider that this person has started a business before and has his own ideas. You cannot train him as a backbone, or he will run away after being fattened up.

Absolutely impossible • Xiamen • 2024-12-03 15:27

What's the matter with the point of stepping on it? Wise bosses are indeed willing to hire people who have started a business before. Such people can often build up performance relatively quickly. As for whether the boss trusts you in his heart, that is another matter. Maybe after you succeed, the boss will kick you out, but this is all later.

kopper • Shenzhen • 2024-12-04 10:37

@Absolutely Impossible: Isn't the purpose of working to gain stability? You are telling a lie once to avoid a lot of unnecessary troubles.

Anonymous user

I am speaking directly and frankly. I think that if people can accept the company I started before, there won't be a thorn in their hearts. It is inevitable that colleagues will talk about this over time.

1. Just say you have a company under your name, and that it was registered by your previous company, and you don’t know the current account status. (To avoid the company finding out that you have a company under your name when they need to use your credit card or information to register Amazon)

2. You concealed the fact that you had started a company, and then said that your previous company used your credit card to hack Amazon. As a result, your information is so useless on Amazon. Anyway, your information is no longer usable.

3. Just conceal it, and ask your friends who have started their own business to issue you a certificate of resignation. As for social security, you should have flexible employment on your own, so you can make up for it by saying that it only costs so much money, etc.

Anonymous user

Agree with: hehepenn

I am sharing my own experience and I am speaking the truth.

I personally think the benefits of telling the truth are:
1. First of all, the work experience must be true and not fake, and you are not afraid of various background checks.
2. Have good experience in running a store from 0 to 1. Some companies really want employees to have this experience. You can also show more of your real and advantageous data from 0 to 1 on your resume, as well as your ability to deal with different account issues.

If you choose to tell the truth, the company will generally be more concerned about why you gave up, whether you can't do well on Amazon, and whether you want to start your own business in the future. So you can prepare more for these two questions. When answering, I think it is a better answer to combine the funding issue with some difficulties of starting a business. After all, in the current environment of Amazon, it is still difficult without a certain amount of capital investment. And starting a business is indeed not suitable for everyone.

Anonymous user

It actually depends on the size of the company you currently want to join;
New or smaller companies will pay more attention to this, while large companies will not care about these and will have KPI assessments;

You can get away with anything with a small company. You don't know anything at the beginning, but the company took your information and gave you a few thousand to open a store. This is really just a casual statement; it mainly depends on your personal ability. If you have strong ability, you will always find a good one.

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I think you shouldn't tell them. Many companies don't investigate. Find a job in those companies first. If you tell them, the boss will think that your own store has failed.

1. He thinks you are incompetent.

2. They think you will start a business in the future, so they are afraid that you will steal their information.

On the other hand, you are the boss, so you can decide what to think.

Anonymous user

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1. If the company is not very big, they generally will not look for a certificate of resignation. The background check may at most reveal that you have a company under your name. In the interview, you can just mention a company at random and say that you worked there and did not pay social security for one or two years.

2. Don't be honest. Don't tell him/her why you have a business license unless he/she asks you. If he/she asks you if you have your own store, just say no. If he/she asks you why you have a business license, just say that a friend wants to set up shop on Shein, AliExpress, etc. and asked you to help register a business license.

yun147 • Wuhan • 2024-12-02 10:17

Just say you have done distribution, and the distribution company asked you for your identity information to register an account

Anonymous user

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I don't recommend talking directly about starting a business. Companies may not be completely honest with you, but you have to reveal all your cards, which is very unsafe. During the window period, you can go home to take the postgraduate entrance examination, continue to work if you fail the civil service examination, or go back to the county to work. The county company does not pay social security, the salary is low, and you still can't adapt. And so on.

Taylon

First point: Find a licensed friend to help you issue a certificate of resignation. Ask him/her in advance and ask for help if you receive a phone call for background check.

The second point: I have interviewed with almost 30 companies before, and only one asked me if I had my own account. When they asked, I told them truthfully that I did. If I couldn't accept it, I could just hire another company. If they didn't ask, even if they found out later, it wouldn't be considered that I had deceived the company.

Anonymous user

You can say that you opened it for a friend or that your previous company had an incentive mechanism for opening a store. There are many other reasons.

Why think so much? The purpose of working for a company is to create more profit value for the company. On the premise that this most basic demand can be met, if the company still engages in intrigue with you because of issues such as whether a parent company is under your name, then you probably won't stay in this company for long depending on how it treats its employees. What you should do is to hone your work skills and maintain self-confidence. If you encounter this kind of problem and can't solve it, just find another one as soon as possible.

Laid-off Lafayette -Retirement in progress

Shouldn't your entrepreneurial experience be a highlight on your resume? You have been a boss yourself, so you know what kind of decisions will lead to failure, and you can avoid them for the interview company in advance. At the same time, you can better understand why the boss makes this decision. No one can understand the pressure of being a boss better than you. So you should write it down generously and discuss it together.

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Agree with: iron李, that year that rabbit, biki2018

My humble opinion is that it can be a thousand-layer cake: I was full of enthusiasm at the time, but later I was killed because of buying and spoofing. And now I have a mortgage, a car loan, a wife and children. The main point is to highlight that I really need this job and that the value of exploitation is very high, but in fact it is not. Let the boss have a little impulse to control you haha

Cross-border electricity operator

In my humble opinion, first of all, do you have certain achievements in entrepreneurship? If not, don't mention it and look for other reasons. If you have certain achievements but failed due to supply chain funds and other factors, don't mention it.

I think companies pay more attention to whether you can provide them with promotion experience from 0 to 1 and how much performance you can bring, so they should focus on this aspect.

Anonymous user

Agree with: Retired

There are also different levels of entrepreneurial failure. Let’s take two extreme examples. For example, if a business fails because of a broken capital chain, companies will scramble to take it over. Or if you register a store but cannot get orders or there is no profit, will companies want you?

kuhai666

Agree with: 123456 Sunny Day, Miss Bread 2024, Bonita, Rope Master No. 98, Open Society More »

Generally, companies that develop new products will avoid these issues. Only those companies that have the ability to develop their own molds and have strong cost advantages will not care about these issues.

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Agree with: Open Society, yomo111, sobreaker, The Kite Runner, Maomao1001 more »

There is no need. Although there are many scams in society, for most people, it is impossible to cover up their lies. It will be even more embarrassing if they are found out after telling one lie after another.

supercute6

Agree with: jaychoufever , Beneme

If you tell me, will others still want you? You failed in your own business. What can you bring to the company?

Shuangmulin LSS • Shenzhen • 2024-12-03 06:38

Who told you that starting a business is a one-time success? Don’t bosses know that if you can succeed, would you still look for a job? It’s a contradiction.

sobreaker • Guangzhou • 2024-12-03 09:22

My friend, starting a business is different from working for others. Just like being laid off is not 100% due to your ability. The industry downturn, wrong company strategy, etc. are common reasons. There are more factors affecting the failure of starting a business, such as funding, strategy, supply chain, etc. When you work for others, you are just selling your skills for money. You just need to prove that you have that skill.

damon00 • Shenzhen • 2024-12-03 14:45

I think this situation needs to be resolved by the company. Some companies don't care so much. After all, starting a business doesn't lead to immediate success. On the contrary, if you start a business, the company will think you are courageous.