I don’t understand by what metric a gap in a resume is a bad thing.
“Made a bunch of money, I’m good at piling money, didn’t want to work to McDonald’s. Made renovation in my house untill I had a good offer” that fuck is wrong with that. ?
Especially when in a hiring mindset, employers can see it as you being undesirable or lazy, maybe even covering for quitting before getting fired and being out of work suddenly and without a plan. “If you were such hot shit, why aren’t you jumping from job to job, higher and higher up the ladder?” That kind of thing.
What’s important to keep in context is that typically one provides relevant job experience on a resume. Not all job experience. So gaps might be actual work, even.
Typically if you can have a good excuse and say you did something productive with the time, it’s fine. “I was looking for work for 6 months after we moved and it was a tough market. I spent free time helping with a local community gardening project” would be totally acceptable. “I took a 3 month break to go work on an organic farm” is still work, just not relevant to your job application at Cinnabon or whatever.
Why do you assume it’s a bad thing? It’s no more a bad thing than asking about your previous job is a bad thing.
You renovated your house? Cool, so you are a resourceful person, maybe you can also be asked what did you learn while doing it. When I ask that question people often speak about their hobbies, or side hustles, or learning, or family obligations, it’s almost always something positive about the candidate or their character.
They don’t want people who can easily walk away. They need you to live paycheck-to-paycheck in fear of losing your job at all times.
Some of you live in some dystopia, I swear.
Nah, it’s the communist echo chamber. I prefer it to LinkedIn lunatics because it’s closer to the truth but at the end of the day like most worldview it can lack nuance.
Job interview in 10 minutes, planning to say essentially this if they ask about my 2 month job gap. Will update if it goes poorly.
How’d it go?
They didn’t ask about the gap 🤷
Hopefully that’s good?
Yeah I think it went pretty well. Would like to have a job at some point in the future as I recently bought a house only to be made redundant 4 months later.
There isn’t a single question you can possibly ask in an interview that doesn’t have a million threads like this complaining about it and assuming the worst about its intentions or what the interviewer will conclude from its answer.
The general rule seems to be that any kind of question that you might do badly on, is a bad question.
Then what would pe a poitive interpretation of this question in particular?
You can take it literally at face value. They want to know about you, so they asked. The idea that an interviewer would conclude that “renovated my house” is a wrong answer that get you blacklisted, is something that person seems to have just decided for themselves.
Too many people think of interviews like they’re exams, where there’s a set pass mark. There isn’t. There’s just, would I rather spend the next few years working with person A or person B, let’s ask them some questions to find out.
They want desperate people who will take abuse not so.ebody thst has optiond.
In Germany, you can do: “Explain the corporations history gap between 1933 and 1945.”
And in the us, between 2025 and onwards
No, see - the gap will cover 2021-2024, as those were the years they were heeding the “woke” mindset of Biden’s administration.
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I once had to “explain the gap in my CV” when applying for a loan. And apparently, “I didn’t feel like working for those 6 months,” wasn’t a good enough explanation. Even though I think literally everybody personally understands the concept.
I ended up saying that I spent the time taking care of my parents, since I did spend some of that time taking care of them.
I hope your parents are doing well.
Any follow up questions as to whether your parents are going to pull you away from work?
It was part of the paperwork requested by the person who arranged my loan and there were no follow up questions.
Yeah, and during my five year “sabbatical” I kept very up to date with developing business practices.
Line goes up. Tada your an MBA.
I’m a liar, and a damn good one. So yes, line indeed goes up.
Before anyone actually updates their resume to look better based on a meme:
Sabbatical is just a long vacation. It’s not that you stop being employed, you just take an extended leave and almost always have an agreed-upon return date.
A sabbatical has also come to mean a lengthy, intentional break from a career for non-academic professionals as well. There are very few norms and expectations for non-academic, or professional, sabbaticals. They can be paid or unpaid, affiliated with one’s employer or self-directed, and have a variety of durations, from several weeks to over a year
Idk, sabbatical is everything under the umbrella of this was a decision on purpose
In opposition to I was looking for a job but no one wanted to hire me.
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Exactly. Unemployment is just a forced sabbatical
I am unable due to having signed an NDA.
But let’s just say the world is still here. You’re welcome.
No no, you just put that on the resume so they don’t ask.
2021-2022 Undisclosed work (still bound by NDA)
You’re joking! I’m supposed to thank you for all this shit?!?
“Hi I’m Gravity Man, I’m a superhero”
“What do you… do…?”
“What don’t I do?”
Okay and who can we verify your NDA with
This cannot be disclosed due to the terms of the NDA.
I’ve had several NDAs that also cover disclosure of the other party. And those weren’t even for proper “work” as you’d generally define it.
Unfortunately that’s covered by a pinky swear
I’ve seen an interview with a guy that said, with a straight face, “for legal reasons I’m not allowed to disclose to you whether or not I have an NDA with <company>”.
I’m pretty sure they make NDAs where you’re not allowed to disclose the other party as well.
Hold on i wanna put on my bird law hat and double down on this one
“There isn’t actually an open position. Its just to trick the shareholders into thinking we’re hiring which means growth.”
This.
This.
This.
Yepp. There is a gap. I have been waiting for you to open this position - why was it not done sooner?
My current company was kind enough to give a dropdown menu of reasons. I just chose one, no questions were asked.
Are they hiring?
Oh absolutely. My industry is has a big shortage in practitioners.
Blood magic?
If you give a shit about me not being able to find a job instantly fuck you and go to hell, I don’t want to work for you.
I was consulting! Go ahead, ask my opinion about something and I’ll consult you.
After that, I drove into the hills
And traded my car for a bottle of pills
And after that, I was on a vision quest
Put my mind, body, and soul to the test
And after that, I met my totem spirit
It’s a rattlesnake, so I had to kill it
Then I drank all his blood and stole his powers
And slithered around in the dirt for hours
And after that I started jerking off
Up on a mountain, jerking off
Down by the river, jerking off
And that’s when I had my epiphany:
You can’t spend your whole life jerking off
And after that, I went back to the city
And after that, I’m a whole new man
Brew kombucha in my hybrid van
I give my life to meditation
Then sleep with a whore at a Greyhound station
I mean, those are both legitimate and normal questions in an interview.
Its a fucking stupid and manipulative question for the employer to ask. No employer should give a fuck if somebody took a couple years to travel, take care of family, or just couldn’t find a job.
What they are really asking "Are any of the time gaps in your job history, a job that you got fired from with cause? "
Instead of being little shits about it just ask the actual question straight out. The shock value of asking a real non-bullshit questions in an interview has paid off many times for me when hiring.
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