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Your last submission to "Who wants to be hired?" states you are not willing to relocate. Maybe this is a determining factor in the lack of engagement from recru

Your last submission to "Who wants to be hired?" states you are not willing to relocate. Maybe this is a determining factor in the lack of engagement from recruiters. I think the post-Covid era for software devs is seeing a lot of employers wanting assets to come back to the office. I wouldn't worry too much about the gap, cover that with freelance work or some side-gig... If you're in dire straits, pivot, look for work somewhere else you might have shun in the past... like Government...

sh9 3y ago
CSE Graduate '23, a couple of months as an AI Intern. Then, 3 months of solar sales. I've an year gap of about the entire year from Nov excluding sales. Will this always haunt me, lost my interest there's nothing that excites like the olden days. I don't want to be learning webdev, is there anything else you'd recommend? Any recommendations would be highly appreciated.
- pelagicAustral 3y ago
  Gaps will never haunt you, you know the story, if a recruiter or interviewer is interested, just give them a back story, doesn't even need to be a blatant lie. I have gaps in my CV of up to three years, I just moved to a different industry, but I was always working as a freelance and was always upgrading my knowledge. Maybe the market was not right, maybe you had personal issues, who knows... I honestly don't think this matters, the only way to screw up the answer to the gap question is with something like "Yeah, I did a 3 stretch for drugs, but it's all good now". About webdev... I don't know, I've been crunching code for a decade now and I'm still not tired, I have done other stuff like CMS implementation, native windows desktop apps, office plugins, APIs, console abstractions... whatever, I understand this is not necessarily something you might want to do, but tell you want, maybe you need a break from the industry anyway... When I had my 3 year gap I went to work for Immigration and then I came up with the idea for a system that I then developed and sold to them. Sometimes the gap is exactly what you need to come back with fresh ideas.
  - muzani 3y ago
    I have a ton of freelancing in my resume, which many people admitted look like gaps. Which is why I also have a heavy portfolio that matches up with the number of years. I think if you just work on enough stuff, you can just slap "freelancer" over all those gaps. Freelancing maybe a gap too - there are many times when you're just doing sales or ops work and no coding.
shantnutiwari 3y ago
Thanks. I put a no there as I live in Cambridge, and (historically) 80% of jobs I've seen are always in the Cambridge/London area. But maybe I will put relocation as Yes now; not sure how it will help, I would expect other countries to have the same issues?

sh9 3y ago

CSE Graduate '23, a couple of months as an AI Intern. Then, 3 months of solar sales. I've an year gap of about the entire year from Nov excluding sales. Will this always haunt me, lost my interest there's nothing that excites like the olden days. I don't want to be learning webdev, is there anything else you'd recommend? Any recommendations would be highly appreciated.

pelagicAustral 3y ago
Gaps will never haunt you, you know the story, if a recruiter or interviewer is interested, just give them a back story, doesn't even need to be a blatant lie. I have gaps in my CV of up to three years, I just moved to a different industry, but I was always working as a freelance and was always upgrading my knowledge. Maybe the market was not right, maybe you had personal issues, who knows... I honestly don't think this matters, the only way to screw up the answer to the gap question is with something like "Yeah, I did a 3 stretch for drugs, but it's all good now". About webdev... I don't know, I've been crunching code for a decade now and I'm still not tired, I have done other stuff like CMS implementation, native windows desktop apps, office plugins, APIs, console abstractions... whatever, I understand this is not necessarily something you might want to do, but tell you want, maybe you need a break from the industry anyway... When I had my 3 year gap I went to work for Immigration and then I came up with the idea for a system that I then developed and sold to them. Sometimes the gap is exactly what you need to come back with fresh ideas.
- muzani 3y ago
  I have a ton of freelancing in my resume, which many people admitted look like gaps. Which is why I also have a heavy portfolio that matches up with the number of years. I think if you just work on enough stuff, you can just slap "freelancer" over all those gaps. Freelancing maybe a gap too - there are many times when you're just doing sales or ops work and no coding.

shantnutiwari 3y ago

Thanks. I put a no there as I live in Cambridge, and (historically) 80% of jobs I've seen are always in the Cambridge/London area. But maybe I will put relocation as Yes now; not sure how it will help, I would expect other countries to have the same issues?