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If you have enough financial security to be able to not work for a year, then the company may not want to hire you. Ideally it needs you to depend on it for everything, because this ensures you'll be a well-behaved slave for an extended period of time.
Yep. They want desperate people.
... but not too desperate; clients might be scared off if the parking lot is full of rusted out 90s econboxes...
"you don't seem desperate enough... that might mean you expect more than slave labor, which complicates things for our company."
"I enjoyed life for a bit, focused on hobbies, family and so should you"
Depends how you frame it—gap sounds bad, took time to learn/reset sounds way better 😅
“I signed an NDA”
Oh fuck, that's an enjoyable response. Unless theres something they can check about that. I dont know enough about employment.
NDAs are almost never all-encompassing. It may not even be legal. Usually an NDA is something like "I worked for [defense contractor] for three years as a mechanical engineer. I can't tell you about the projects I worked on, but I can elaborate on my responsibilities."
The care about compliance. If You go "I don't give a fuck about the norm" You'll have a good time while you say it and then probably a rejection.
I agree that they shouldn't care but they do. Unless they are cool.
'Entreprenuer' is just a way of saying unemployed to make rich assholes feel smug about it. Writing a resume is just recoding every event so its written correctly for rich assholes to feel smug.
"I'm sorry, I can't talk about that. I signed an NDA."
You can even create your own NDA to sign so it won't be a lie, if you care about that sort of thing.
This is the best answer by far.
Second best is "independent researcher." Make up the metrics. You produced numerous 20,000 word reports for a small group of peers? Great, I have also barfed up a wall of text at reddit.
First rule of signing your own NDA is you don't talk about signing your own NDA.
Signing an NDA with oneself sounds like fay trickery 🤣
Narrator: I didn't.
They’ll use anything to reject you. But I don’t think they “care”.
My answers to "Would you explain this gap in your resume?":
I am not required to disclose medical information, and will not be discussing this matter any further.
Why the combative/legalese tone though? Why not just say "It was for medical reasons, I don't want to go into it" like a normal person? The interviewer would go "Oh ok fair enough" instead of thinking "What's wrong with this guy, did he get out bed with his left foot today?"
No2 will make any interviewer exclude you as they don't want to hire a "lemon"
Lemon is right...but not because they have medical problems. I'm left as hell but I'd get so annoyed if an interview candidate snapped back like that. I'd think "this person is going to escalate any minor inconvenience"
Yeah it's much better to begin with a more polite "It was medical in nature and I'd prefer not to discuss it." And only pull out the "hey, legally you can't ask about my medical issues" if they continue.
Thank you. You're one of the only people in my replies who gets what I'm saying lol
Other people are acting like the interviewer is demanding answers.
Another good one is to mention there being health issues in the family that necessitated you take time to help them with.
Only a very nosy employer will question that further. If they give you grief for helping your loved ones in such a situation, they probably aren't worth working for
I have a "mental health break" line in my resume for a 4 month hiatus. I don't know if it's a flex or not, but it's honest about what it is. At some point, a potential employer asked about it with some stern reservation, which allowed me to avoid a toxic workplace culture. Win win.
"Sabbatical."
*taps sign*
One must speak the language of the bourgeois to win his favor.
I've had gaps, and no employer has ever asked me anything about them.
I hire people where I work. Nothing fancy, just pest control, but I don't give a fuck. If you're licensed and seem decent as a human I'll give it a go. Worst case scenario is you suck, in which case you're fired pretty quickly on your own merit and I hire someone else. There are so many smaller companies out there in nearly every industry and they're ran by normal people with normal fucked up lives like most of us.
I've been fortunate to end up where I am and what I do but all my employees have fierce loyalty to me simply for being normal and treating them like maybe they're normal too and I hate seeing things like this because even these big corporate jobs are still being ran by people going home and having normal human problems. I don't understand why so many jobs have entry barriers that exclude shit like, "shit happens, sorry for being poor?"
Hope that makes sense. I'm rambling but I also had a shitty day with work and came home and drank. So fuck judgement.
"I had to provide end of life care to a close relative" doesn't get followed up by a lot of questions.
I’ve successfully labeled a period of “being laid off and playing a lot of video games until my bank account got to the area I didn’t like it to be” as a sabbatical.
ymmv though
Some recruiters are not so great at judging people. Instead they come up with rules and red flags to justify their choice, or worse, get inspiration from other recruiters on LinkedIn.
You see a lot of people who hire want individuals who live to work: workaholics. Those are the kinds of people you can get the most value from.
They don't care that these people exploit themselves and hurt their families in the process. These are the ones they want; therefore, those are the kinds of people we have to masquerade as.
Oh yeah sir, that was my year as a porn star, you should have asked your wife about that
Employers like you to be desperate, so demonstrating that you can afford (whether through finances, friends, or foraging) to not work for a long stretch of time indicates that you won’t be negotiating with them from a position of dependency.