> The longer you go without finding a new job, the harder it becomes to get past the suspicious-looking gap in your employment history. I lucked out once here

> The longer you go without finding a new job, the harder it becomes to get past the suspicious-looking gap in your employment history. I lucked out once here at an software interview - my parents had bought a house that they were having renovated, and I spent a few months between jobs acting as a general contractor, and doing some of the labour that I was qualified for myself. Turned out my interviewer was a former carpenter, so we spent a while chatting about that.