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For some reason, hiring culture considers any employment gap as signaling a poor candidate. I’m not sure why, but I wonder if it is that someone who can take a
by wintermutestwin 3y ago
For some reason, hiring culture considers any employment gap as signaling a poor candidate. I’m not sure why, but I wonder if it is that someone who can take a year off work doesn’t have enough debt to make for a captive employee.
- ambicapter 3y agoOr those hiring are just suspicious of people who don't make the same mistakes they do.
- bbarn 3y agoI think that opinion is changing. I regularly see engineers come in with gaps, and rarely do they not have a good explanation for it that anyone but the worst managers would be ok with. Whether it's child-rearing, testing early retirement, starting their own thing, whatever. About the only thing that would raise a flag for me was "I was in prison" and only because for regulatory reasons in my industry it's not possible to employ convicted felons.
- neon_electro 3y agoLucky you. 18 months job searching here, 10 years of experience - I absolutely could tell that I was seeing fewer contacts, interviews, offers, etc. in months 7-18 than months 1-6.