Is questioining a employment gap an invasion of privacy? (credit, job, money)
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is this how you American think? picturing a hiring process where you're asked even about who you slept with and you'll begin to understand what I've gone through...
is this how you American think? picturing a hiring process where you're asked even about who you slept with and you'll begin to understand what I've gone through...
What country allows an employer to ask that? In the United States that is illegal to ask.
Agreed. If I win the jackpot tommorow I won't be working ever again. Ill pay my fair share to the government and let the money work for itself after that.
The last part is what I'm saying. There are multiple reasons why people don't work, but sitting on your lazy butt collecting welfare and leeching off of your parents or the such aren't legit gaps in work history. This is why the employer is asking what is up in this work history where you took a gap off.
I'm not working by choice despite having an advance degree that is actually "useful"- forensic science. Instead of sticking to that or the old boring CSR route, I'm trying to become a professional musician. I live by myself off my savings from previous work. If and when I go back to work to support my dream, I will have made my choice. What's the beef? Sounds like jealously. I love the intolerance and shock other express at my decisions. It makes me realize how little their world and dreams are. Enjoy your boing lives. haha!
So you think someone is going to reveal personal medical information on a interview to get hired?
Good Night lol
All you have to say is I had a medical emergency. If they insist so you had cancer (or whatever the medical emergency is) and it flared back up for the second gap unemployment. Saying either one doesn't mean you letting the whole world know. Millions have cancer or what have you...who cares if you reveal that information.
There's legitimate reasons why one should not be working between 18-65. If you're attending medical school, for example, you should not be working. And if you're retiring early, you should not be working. I know people who have retired in their 40s, attained a gap, got bored, and went back to work only to retire in their 50s. Having a gap in itself is not a problem. If you have a gap of sitting at home collecting welfare... then that's a problem.
"Should" according to whose rules? The sentiment you expressed indicates total conditioning - just like a good soldier.
I'm not working by choice despite having an advance degree that is actually "useful"- forensic science. Instead of sticking to that or the old boring CSR route, I'm trying to become a professional musician. I live by myself off my savings from previous work. If and when I go back to work to support my dream, I will have made my choice. What's the beef? Sounds like jealously. I love the intolerance and shock other express at my decisions. It makes me realize how little their world and dreams are. Enjoy your boing lives. haha!
Umm what. Lol
I don't care if your a musician. That is a legitmate career. If they ask why there was a gap say I'm also a musician. It obviously takes time to write songs. It not an invasion of privacy is all I'm saying.
"Should" according to whose rules? The sentiment you expressed indicates total conditioning - just like a good soldier.
You can replace should with could. Obviously I injected my opinion in there. Here's more opinion for you. Who the heck wants to work every single year between 18 and 65? There's too much stuff to do to let work get in your way.
Well I have never been asked that question and was out of work for 11 months so it's probably how u present yourself when being interviewed.
In 11 months out of work you had just two interviews (your own admission). Two interviews during which neither of the interviewers allegedly asked you how you had been spending your time while unemployed does not make this a standard. It has been said hundreds of times over that some employers ask and some don't but this whole nonsense about the question being illegal or an invasion of privacy is exactly that - total nonsense.
It is not an invasion of privacy. It all depends on the tone of the interviewer and exactly what he/she asks. Some interviewers are not polite, are nosy and have a negative attitude. Others are just curious and ask the question in a way that is not offensive. Regardless of the interviewer's attitude, it's really in everyone's best interest to "keep face", give direct eye contact, and nicely tell them something that will put their "fears" at rest. You may have valid reasons why there are gaps, be they 5 years ago, or currently. Do you tell the truth and nothing but the truth about any gaps? Not if it'll disqualify you. Purpose is to sell yourself; at the same time, the employer isn't going to tell you the truth about the company, even if you ask anything. To respond to questions dealing with any job gap, you can say things like: attended school, raised children, was out of the country for a family/estate/legal matter, was in the process of moving, handled illness in the family (yes it's resolved). Think of some things that sound reasonable. For current gaps you can say self employed, school, managing family property (income generating) or business, etc. Look the interviewer dead straight in the eye, hold their gaze unshiftingly, and answer the question. Do not whine about the economy and the challenges of job searching. Unless an employer has their head up their a** they should know about the state of the economy. Also don't oversell yourself as you will sound like you're lying. I really feel that a lot of people with decent intelligence are going to understand about "life event" gaps or the bad economy. If someone is so ignorant, judgmental or paranoid about unemployed people and gaps, then maybe I don't want to work there. IF they are obsessed with hating on the jobless and in love with those already employed, they're in for a major awakening. MOST EMPLOYED PEOPLE IN THIS BAD ECONOMY WILL NOT LEAVE THE JOB, NO MATTER HOW CRAPPY, TO GO WORK FOR ANOTHER EMPLOYER WHOM THEY DON'T KNOW. This is what the employed tell me. "Why would I leave my job in this bad economy to go elsewhere?" "What it really sucks there?" "Then I'm scre**d."
Some are freaking out about gaps. There's no need. A gap doesn't mean you're a defective human being. If interviewers and employers make you feel very uncomfortable about gaps, then you wouldn't be happy there. They would be trying to crawl up your **s after they hire and while you are working there. They would make you paranoid, because they are!
I have spoken to quite a few who are employed, and they all say the same things. It's too risky to change jobs. These employers either GET IT; or not.
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I love the intolerance and shock other express at my decisions. It makes me realize how little their world and dreams are.
Enjoy your boing lives. haha!
