I’d love to be able to afford to have a gap in my resume:(
The secret to writing a good resume is that people are lazy and HR departments are overworked just like everyone else so you can just fucking lie
They lie in the advertisements, so there’s nothing wrong about lying on your application.
10000000000000% this.
As long as you can back up your lie with a grotesque amount of overconfidence, most hiring managers are not going to dig much deeper than surface level. Like you already said, they are probably overworked and just going through motions. Hiring you has the potential to ease their workload, not hiring you means wasting another afternoon conduction more interviews the next day.
What if I told you
It’s none of your fucking business small business tyrant.
Them: Can you explain the gaps in your resume?
My autistic ass: Well, it’s because I was unemployed.
One of many dumb questions that the gatekeepers ask you before they decide your livelihood.
Me: Can you explain why this is the 4th time you’ve posted this exact job in a year?
I’ve actually applied to 2 different places 4 times a piece over the last year. I had initial interviews with them each the first time and both said “lol no we found someone better qualified”. But alas, they keep reopening those positions. I think at this point I’m blacklisted from both and it’s an insta-deny on Indeed from them.
Sounds like a fucking mess. Seen a lot of that stuff in the tech sphere more recently and it doesn’t instill a lot of confidence.
Probably not a great situation to hop into, sounds like you may be dodging a bullet, but beggars and choosers… Good luck, comrade!
I don’t mean this in a mean way, but to me if you have a gap (and I mean like you create one on the paper) it’s sort of an old school “shouldn’t exist anymore but boomers gonna boom” “intelligence” test. Their attitude is basically “no one I hire will have an employment gap.” So, you just simply do not have a gap. Whether it’s true or not is irrelevant because let’s be honest ain’t no one capable of nor willing to prove or disprove your employment status from Jan-June 2022 (random example). Maybe the IRS or whatever relevant tax agency, maybe law enforcement, sure, but if you’re applying for a job as the sales manager or whatever the fuck at Don’s Dogshit Diaper Emporium… just go ahead and stretch the dates together to fit. You could probably put other shit in there if you did it like completing on-going education credits in your relevant field, but, keeping it simple is best. Even a fucking financial institution, a bank or whatever, won’t bother to figure that gap out when they literally pull on the nitrile gloves and shove their entire fist up to the elbow into your financial asshole looking for any reasons to downgrade your eligibility for a mortgage or give you a shit rate- ask me how I know. So, just lie. If they care enough to find that shit that place absolutely sucks anyway. Or it’s a federal law enforcement agency and you should feel bad and stop doing that anyway.
