# Job Application advice

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-application-advice/561589>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 22, 2010, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-application-advice/561589 "2010-11-22T21:59:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-application-advice/561589/1 "2010-11-22T21:59:15Z")

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I am looking for a job and I have an interview coming up. They are asking me for former supervisors which is OK except for 1 job I do not recall the name of my supervisor. I was only there for about 4 months, it’s on my resume so I cannot leave it off. This was about 11 years ago, that’s why I do not recall his name.

Can I just write “do not recall” or something similar to that? I don’t want to leave it blank.

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**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-application-advice/561589/2 "2010-11-22T22:15:24Z")

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a four month long job from 11 years ago? There’s about a 1% chance your supervisor is still there and a .0001% chance they’ll call that supervisor even if you knew his or her name.

I’m not sure what you should put down but “do not recall” would most likely work.

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**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-application-advice/561589/3 "2010-11-22T22:34:09Z")

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Put the manager’s title or what you imagine their title might have been.

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**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-application-advice/561589/4 "2010-11-23T04:59:23Z")

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Make up a name. They’re not going to call and even if they do, the company won’t have that information readily available.