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plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “I was providing end of life care for a family member.”

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  • plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You get benefits for that, and why would you not list that on the resume ahead of time to explain the gap?

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    • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Because resumes are for listing relevant work experience not a timeline of your life events.

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      • plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Being a caregiver is relevant work experience, quite sad that some people think caring for others isn’t relevant for a large portion of work…

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    • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I wouldn’t list it because it’s in a section that is titled “Work Experience” not my life journal. I even personally call mine “Relevant Experience” and note to please reach out if you’d like to see more, out of respect for their time. My full experience would take up like five pages of resume with everything else. Besides, to me the point of the resume is to get to that phone call, and after that I figure I can talk to anything they’d like to know.

      Man I wish I lived in a place that had benefits like that.

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      • plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Being a caregiver is its own work experience, you should list it.

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• MIDItheKID@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This one is so crazy to me. I have two friends that seem to be facing this issue right now. One took 6 months off after being laid off from his job because he wanted to, had enough money to, and just wanted to take some time off and travel etc. He keeps getting grilled about it, and has been job hunting for another 6 months on top of it. Now he’s been unemployed for a year and is getting grilled even harder for it. Why is that a problem? Like why do people see that as some kind of flaw? “I had the resources to take some time off so I did” seems perfectly fine to me

  The other friend was suffering from severe burnout and decided to take a year off to get his own mental health in order. Once again, I don’t see the problem with that. If you can afford to take a year off and that’s what you want to do with your time and money, then right on, go do that. Life is for living. But now he’s having a very hard time getting a job because of it.

  Its kinda bullshit.

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  • hobovision@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They want you to need them. If you don’t need them, you might be thinking independently. You might not go along with it when they want you to do unreasonable things.

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    • BigPotato@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It also takes resources to onboard a new employee and you don’t want to spend that on someone who is gonna bounce in six months.

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• radiohead37@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Decided to take a break from the capitalist system.

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• Sackeshi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Indeed thankfully for us, covid which can reasonably span from 2020-2022 but yeah true.

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