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You have to fill the gaps in with other stuff. Like you couldn't seriously have just been looking for work and nothing else for 2 years. Plug in with any classes you taught, businesses you started, presentations you gave, volunteer work, anything. It's not like you were sitting on your ass just sending out resumes for 2 years. Just like it's not like all you do is work when you have a job. Just focus on the extra-curricular when you don't have a main gig.
EXACTLY. I actually didn't look for a job AT ALL during those 2 years. I didn't need to. I saved up money and had my bills in line. I knew I would be able to survive and my fiance supported me, so I took a 15-credit/semester load in college and knocked out tons of classes.
I have no idea how to put that on my resume to make it look relevant. I guess I will Google! But in response, the employers ACT like you were dying to work for those 2 years and almost look at you like "Didn't anyone wanna hire you in those 2 years?"...and I just keep saying "I wasn't looking for work. I went back to college full time to complete my Bachelors". It's like they don't get it.
I agree with this wholeheartedly, as I have a friend in this very same situation. It's funny how some folks get so steamed when people do this, though. Guess they don't know what it's like to be without a job for a year or two, and being "shut out" of jobs that they can certainly qualify for, simply because they haven't been able to find work in so long.
I just see it as a risk they take, essentially, as background checks are becoming the norm and they are very extensive. I have seen this firsthand at my agency. It has cost a few jobs, but some people feel it's worth the gamble and I can't blame them...we all want to work so badly!
The gaps, which happens in life is a pain in the ass, I am so sick of what we think employers, (they are just people like us)......might think......really? It is just sickening already...
so there is a gap, jail me, things happen in life where you just can't go to school, graduate, college, graduate work job 1 work job 2 and so on...sometimes there is a gap, a little time in between jobs, so you know what, tough!!! get over it...
of course you can just bridge the time together and call it a day, it really is no big deal, it is not like you are making a diamond heist or something, I mean really.....it's just a freaking job................
What gets me are the ones that call you in for an interview and focus solely on that gap. Some of them even make little sighs and grunts when you explain why you are not working. If their sole concern is a gap, then why not address that via phone before calling someone in?
I think the hiring manager is just being petty, rude, and uncivilized to you. They don't really care that you have job gaps. Job gaps are relatively trivial unless you were in rehab or prison. In fact all of the hiring managers that I know personally have told me that. It's only when you've been in and out of rehab or prison do they start disapproving.
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EXACTLY. I actually didn't look for a job AT ALL during those 2 years. I didn't need to. I saved up money and had my bills in line. I knew I would be able to survive and my fiance supported me, so I took a 15-credit/semester load in college and knocked out tons of classes.
I have no idea how to put that on my resume to make it look relevant. I guess I will Google! But in response, the employers ACT like you were dying to work for those 2 years and almost look at you like "Didn't anyone wanna hire you in those 2 years?"...and I just keep saying "I wasn't looking for work. I went back to college full time to complete my Bachelors". It's like they don't get it.
I've never had that problem before. The hiring managers I've interviewed with just seem to be all around dim-witted, obtuse, and indolent. They will focus on any random petty reason to not hire you or to give you a hard time.
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What gets me are the ones that call you in for an interview and focus solely on that gap. Some of them even make little sighs and grunts when you explain why you are not working. If their sole concern is a gap, then why not address that via phone before calling someone in?
A close friend of mine was interviewed. She was out of work 2 years caring for her terminally ill mother. At the interview she was asked how she supported herself during those 2 years. She had already explained her situation, but apparently the interviewer wanted to be callous.
Personally, that was none of that interviewer's business. Needless to say, she did not get the job.
Well like I said several times many if not most all HR managers are saliently petty and pedantic. And empathy and active listening are certainly not priorities for them either.
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A close friend of mine was interviewed. She was out of work 2 years caring for her terminally ill mother. At the interview she was asked how she supported herself during those 2 years. She had already explained her situation, but apparently the interviewer wanted to be callous.
Personally, that was none of that interviewer's business. Needless to say, she did not get the job.
A close friend of mine was interviewed. She was out of work 2 years caring for her terminally ill mother. At the interview she was asked how she supported herself during those 2 years. She had already explained her situation, but apparently the interviewer wanted to be callous.
Personally, that was none of that interviewer's business. Needless to say, she did not get the job.
I would have told the dumb ass interviewer that money is something that is not a problem for my family.
Just because I want to work doesn't mean I am poor, because hunny, I am not going to the poor farm any time soon.
The I would have stuck my tongue at her, and left.
Charles has the right answer: reorder your resume to list continuing education as a chronological event within your job history. What you are doing now isnt working, hence this thread... why would you dismiss another way of doing things when your own method keeps failing? THAT is the true source of ypur problems: you think you are right about everything.
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