If you were screening resumes or the hiring manager, would you prefer to see (employment, 2015)

[jobsearchingin2015]

someone who has a past 2 year resume gap but a focused resume for the finance industry

or someone who has no gap but spent 2 years in self-employment working on something unrelated like an internet company and possibly appear uncommitted to the industry

[ragnarkar]

Originally Posted by jobsearchingin2015

someone who has a past 2 year resume gap but a focused resume for the finance industry

or someone who has no gap but spent 2 years in self-employment working on something unrelated like an internet company and possibly appear uncommitted to the industry

Neither.. there's plenty of qualified candidates in the finance industry and I'd not be desperate to hire either one of them. If I could only choose from those two, I'd lean slightly towards the 2nd one, all else being equal.

[convextech]

Originally Posted by jobsearchingin2015

someone who has a past 2 year resume gap but a focused resume for the finance industry

or someone who has no gap but spent 2 years in self-employment working on something unrelated like an internet company and possibly appear uncommitted to the industry

Neither one. I would keep looking for someone who is current in the industry.