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You're definitely right about the competitive advantage thing. You want to create a silly blanket rule? Fine - I'll be happy to interview the guy who's a rock

by balloot 15y ago

You're definitely right about the competitive advantage thing. You want to create a silly blanket rule? Fine - I'll be happy to interview the guy who's a rockstar engineer but decided to travel Asia for 6 months.

dreamdu5t 15y ago
We're talking about unemployed, not somebody who has the money to burn on traveling to Asia for 6 months.
- hugh3 15y ago
  Still unemployed! But we are talking edge cases here.
  - nradov 15y ago
    No. http://www.bls.gov/cps/faq.htm#Ques5 http://www.bls.gov/cps/faq.htm#Ques5 "Persons are classified as unemployed if they do not have a job, have actively looked for work in the prior 4 weeks, and are currently available for work."
    - dspeyer 15y ago
      This is the definition used for assembling official statistics. It is unlikely that this is used by companies setting hiring rules.
    - arantius 15y ago
      Well now, that's anyone who currently has no employment, and is applying for a particular job ("actively looked for work"), isn't it?
- PakG1 15y ago
  To be honest, traveling some parts of Asia isn't exactly expensive. Only when you get into Korea, Japan, HK. Most of the other places in Asia are pretty cheap, especially if you're backpacking.