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. ?
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.
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?
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.
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
Yeah, and during my five year "sabbatical" I kept very up to date with developing business practices.
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)
Okay and who can we verify your NDA with
This cannot be disclosed due to the terms of the NDA.
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 ".
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
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.
You're joking! I'm supposed to thank you for all this shit?!?
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.
In Germany, you can do: "Explain the corporations history gap between 1933 and 1945."
And in the us, between 2025 and onwards
"There isn't actually an open position. Its just to trick the shareholders into thinking we're hiring which means growth."
Yepp. There is a gap. I have been waiting for you to open this position - why was it not done sooner?
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.
My current company was kind enough to give a dropdown menu of reasons. I just chose one, no questions were asked.
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