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• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  "I was unemployed"

  • Why?
  • Can they not even keep a job?

  "I took a sabbatical"

  • Mysterious
  • Arousing
  • Shows off the size of your enormous sack

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  • kadup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What’s your biggest strength?

    The size of my enormous sack

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    • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Randy Marsh, sir, you’re hired.

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• kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Image

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  • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Will this actually work?

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    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      For the most part, yes. They only really ask the question because they automatically assume you were in jail if you have a gap over 2’ish weeks long. So they’re really just looking for some sort of explanation besides “I was just unemployed for no reason.” Because they assume “no reason” is really “I don’t want to admit that I was in jail.”

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    • BussyCat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It depends on the context if you say you had an NDA and can’t elaborate at all on the details that’s a clear red flag as most NDAs you can at least give the context of what it is about I.e. specific job processes, witnesses an event, etc.

      If you say you worked for X company but can’t talk about the details of your work because of an NDA then that’s fine but they might call your old employer to verify you did really work there.

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    • ExtantHuman@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not even remotely.

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I can’t tell you, I signed an NDA

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  • OmegaLemmy@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh. I’m bookmarking this. Great idea.

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• lemmy12369@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I was told one way is: I singed a nda and I’m not allowed to answer that

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  • Draegur@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My refusal to answer is proof that I’m trustworthy :3

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  • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You’d still be asked to provide start and end dates and place of employment if your work was confidential. If the NDA prohibits you from disclosing your employment entirely, it will typically include a restriction against disclosing the existence of the NDA itself.

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    • Scubus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “I legally cannot tell you what I was doing from 20xx-20xx”

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  • letsgo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Was singeing the NDA the reason you didn’t keep that job?

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• zakobjoa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “I had to provide end of life care to a close relative.”

  I have a big gap from a few years of depression and that’s my go to line. I have never ever heard a follow up question.

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  • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I have a big gap from a few years of depression

    It’s relieving to hear I’m not the only one, that shit was crippling. Glad we both made it through!

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    • zakobjoa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Fuck yeah. We survived!

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  • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How big are we talking, I sometimes feel like taking a year off to fix my mental health, but I fear it will kill my career

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    • zakobjoa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I have a year of uni (unfinished), a year of an apprenticeship (unfinished) and then 1.5yrs of joblessness. Started at 20, I learned a trade in my mid twenties and have a solid career now. I just regret I was never able to finish uni.

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• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  FMLA is always a safe bet. Only one available to care for a dying family member buys sympathy and is an area they can’t legally ask any follow-up questions.

  Source: former corporate shill and interviewer

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• pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Haha, as if anyone actually asks that. A gap gets you automatically rejected by the employment AI, long before humans see it.

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  • dan69@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Can someone confirm for a recruitment standpoint.

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  • lemmy12369@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What does one put on the resume then?

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    • etchinghillside@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You use the other AI to fill it in on the resume.

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      lies

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• rdri@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes. I created the document in Google docs, and you opened it in Word.

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  • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s why you should provide PDF of you resume.

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    • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nah just give them the .tex source and let them deal with it.

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  • toastmeister@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I created it in Word and opened it in Teams by accident once.

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    • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Teams embedded Office is the worst. Like, can you not, and would it hurt to be ⅔ less bloated by doing so?

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  • MisterFrog@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is on you then. Providing finished documents in an editable format just feels wrong to me

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    • rdri@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sharing a document in Google docs means sharing a link and in many cases with read-only access.

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “Sorrry, I have an NDA”

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  • TragicNotCute@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    NDAs generally prohibit you from stating that you are under NDA.

    Better to be cryptic “I can’t really go into details due to my clearance”.

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    • HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That doesn’t work either

      They still want name of employer and dates

      Lots of cleared applicants have probably applied there in the past

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• iamkindasomeone@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In Germany, just ask them what the gap between 1933 and 1945 in their company’s history is as a direct response.

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  • groet@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I am not sure drawing a comparison between your unemployment and the reign of the Nazis is the best move

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    • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But if you get a rise out of them it’ll be perfect.

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• RangerJosey@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No I can’t. I signed an NDA.

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  • blubfisch@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The NDA: Dear me, I promise to talk about the fun times only with my friends and not with potential employers. Signed, me.

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  • slappypantsgo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This can also help you filter the lunatics from the normal workplaces. In an interview, I once explained that I couldn’t discuss specifics of my client work because of confidentiality and NDAs, and they kept pushing. It wasn’t even the same industry! There was no obvious competitive advantage.

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    • CandleTiger@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Maybe they wanted to be ver very sure you weren’t covering a not-working period /s

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  • andybytes@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    On snap… It could work if you are a good bullshit artist

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• duckythescientist@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “I took four months off to recover from burnout”

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  • Fallofturkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s pretty much what I said - I took some time off for my family. I was getting called 3-4 times a week between 6pm-5am, often times not being present for them, so I had to make a change or risk losing them. I got the job and don’t get called at night. Win-win all except for those 4 months without paying and stress of resume rewrites and a million applications.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes. I’ve basically said that, not that I’ve had such a rude, direct question from an interviewer.

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• Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “That is the year when I was happy.”

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  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “I cosplayed as a person who was free.”

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• slappypantsgo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This question should be illegal to ask.

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• explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “I was consulting.”

  It’s true, I was giving out advice left and right.

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  • camelbeard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It was my sabbatical, and be really smug when you say it, like I’m better than you.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “I inherited some money and could afford to pursue personal interests (getting high and playing videogames)”

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  • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Online and on video games.

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  • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I totally had a guy catch and call me on that

    “Those 3 months I did consulting for a local elderly care facility, helping them learn some computer basics”

    “Sir, your parents don’t count” without missing a beat. I actually did help other people in that specific chunk he was asking about, but rude lol, and I think that might even be a big part of why I didn’t get that one tbh

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• lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  i have never been asked this question and i actively remove positions that aren’t relevant to the job i send that particular resume to

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• Freshparsnip@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I was working on my mental health

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  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh you have had mental health problems? I’m not sure we’re going to be a good fit for your kind…

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    • Freshparsnip@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s discrimination

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  • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    in other words, it’s why i’m not trying to strangle you for asking me that question!

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• stoly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  An idiot asked me that once when I had just finished my masters. Like did you read my resume?

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  • blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think they do that to:

    1. Judge your reaction to being asked stupid questions.

    2. Check that you know what’s written on your CV, to see if you’re lying on it or something?

    C) Because someone else chose the candidates for interview.

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    • stoly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Based on the context and my own personal experience as a person who has interviewed hundreds as a hiring manager --not syaing I do this, just that I understand-- they said “HEY FRANK WE NEED YOU TO SIT IN THIS INTERVIEW IN 30 MINUTES. K THANKS” and Frank showed up and tried to pretend that he knew what was going on.

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• NoMadLadNZ@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Those were the times I was taking time off to argue with the voices in my head that were telling me to kill again.

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  • Texas_Hangover@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Did you win the argument?

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    • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      For like 3 months out of the 2 year gap, yeah

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    • NoMadLadNZ@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s what the interviewer asked too. The voices didn’t like that question…

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• twice_hatch@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Took a year off to let everyone else catch up 💅

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “Those are line breaks. You see it’s easier to read if you break up blocks of text into paragraphs separated by a whole empty line.”

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• PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s too much info. A simple “I can” answers their question.

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• Dearth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes, i was pursuing other opportunities that do not relate to this field so i did not include them

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• joyjoy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “The economy”

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• Litebit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If i have to explain the gap (which clearly means I was not employed), it means you are incompetent, you fail my interview, I don’t work with incompetent bosses.

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• refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “Yeah, I spent that time driving Uber/Doordash/whatever.”

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  • Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Depending on your career, this might be worse than not doing anything

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    • cornshark@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Why’s that?

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• doug@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s called a line break. Now I know why you needed someone proficient in MS Word!

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• Event_Horizon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I always put in “traveling overseas”

  In my case this is actually true, but I’ve never had anyone question me taking 12 months off every few years

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• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Time loop

  I could have been in that gap once, twice … a million times … we don’t know

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• Suavevillain@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Me: “I was moving in silence or under a NDA.”

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I had a six year gap. I tried to found a startup with a buddy and it fell through. I had enough savings to spend time learning new technologies and leveling up my skills. It made me unemployable. It really sucked. Finally taking a temp gig for four months got the phone to start ringing.

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