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There's other reasons you might have a gap on your resume. Lots of women (and some men) take years off to have and raise kids. You might have an ailing parent
by MikeTheGreat 9y ago
There's other reasons you might have a gap on your resume.
Lots of women (and some men) take years off to have and raise kids.
You might have an ailing parent who required care
You might have worked several small, irrelevant 'odd jobs' to live off of while finding yourself on a journey of self-discovery
You might have been a ski bum / surf bum.
Having a multi-year gap doesn't look good no matter what, but 'prison' isn't the only reason one might have such a gap :)
- brianwawok 9y agoSure, but if you wanted to exclude prisons, you could exclude anyone with a multi-year gap. Would you hit some people that didn't go to prison? Sure. But it seems a close enough filter to discriminate on...
- nomagicbullet 9y agoWhere did you get the statistic that the majority of people who have been out of work for more than a year are criminals?
- brianwawok 9y agoMy statement does not say that. Perhaps you need to try reading it again.
- MikeTheGreat 9y agoOne other thought - there are people who serve less than a year in prison. One scenario is that they get out before serving their full sentence. (I'm not sure on the details of how that happens, but I've read news articles about so-and-so who served 9 months of their X year sentence, and then got out for good behavior, etc)