Easy questions have easy answers, right?
“Yeah, I spent that time driving Uber/Doordash/whatever.”
No boss to confirm/deny, and it’s not like Uber is going to tell a random employer when one of their drivers were active.
Depending on your career, this might be worse than not doing anything
Why’s that?
Well, just a gap in the resume might mean you took yourself a sabbatical of sorts. But driving an uber means you were desperate for cash and needed a job, but wasn’t able to secure one in your main field. That’s sus.
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<chef’s kiss>
“I was consulting.”
It’s true, I was giving out advice left and right.
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
It was my sabbatical, and be really smug when you say it, like I’m better than you.
“I inherited some money and could afford to pursue personal interests (getting high and playing videogames)”
Online and on video games.
Just lie. There is absolutely nothing unethical about lying about timeframes on your resume.
Looking for a job after being made redundant, but still in good standing with your former coworker or manager? Just say you still work there.
Otherwise they’ll have way more leverage when it comes to salary negotiation.
My friend did this when he got made redundant, landed a well paying job, after months of being unemployed.
You have no reason to have a gap on your resume because you’ll be unfairly punished for it.
Just lie. It’s 100% ethical.
In Germany, just ask them what the gap between 1933 and 1945 in their company’s history is as a direct response.
I am not sure drawing a comparison between your unemployment and the reign of the Nazis is the best move
But if you get a rise out of them it’ll be perfect.
Big if true
My resume has a bigger gap than goatse
It’s a store, they sell clothes, I worked there.
I tried to get the US-Citizenship. But then came the Macarena…
Time loop
I could have been in that gap once, twice … a million times … we don’t know
A dozen times, a hundred, it’s impossible to tell.
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
In principle they shouldn’t be allowed to ask that. if they seem to be giving too much weight to that they are just being lazy on trying to evaluate you and they will likely be bad employers who believe that taking time off for yourself is a red flag
“Sorrry, I have an NDA”
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”.
That doesn’t work either
They still want name of employer and dates
Lots of cleared applicants have probably applied there in the past
I am not at liberty to discuss this gap.
I could tell you but…
I’d go to prison and you’d have to sign some kind of NDA
Ohh, juicy. Where do I sign?
OMG, reply threads are in rainbow colors. I just noticed.
Hah! I had the same reaction when I noticed. It’s neat.
I could tell you, but this unspeakable information is bound to turn even the most capable minds towards madness.
You were also probably wondering, what’s in the canister?
No I can’t. I signed an NDA.
The NDA: Dear me, I promise to talk about the fun times only with my friends and not with potential employers. Signed, me.
On snap… It could work if you are a good bullshit artist
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.
Maybe they wanted to be ver very sure you weren’t covering a not-working period /s
“That is the year when I was happy.”
“I cosplayed as a person who was free.”
