I could see cases where this could be relevant. Imagine someone with a great career path in, say, SFBA -- forward and upward progression. In 2006 he quits a j

I could see cases where this could be relevant. Imagine someone with a great career path in, say, SFBA -- forward and upward progression. In 2006 he quits a job after 6mo and moves to Houston, Boston, Rochester MN, etc. and takes a much lower job (say IT manager or something remote, and with flexible hours..,or maybe no job at all for a couple years) for 0-5y, and is now looking for a job again, based on the previous experience. Maybe he got fired from the good jobs and couldn't get a job somewhere good again and had to move somewhere cheaper to take a job more readily available. Maybe he or a family member had cancer and wanted to be near the world's best particular cancer care. I'd probably be a lot more strongly biased to hire the person who was willing to sacrifice his career for a while to save someone's life than otherwise. (Although Stanford and UCSF are pretty good...)