Easy questions have easy answers, right?
Not difficult to understand
Submitted 2 months ago by phudgins@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Will this actually work?
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
For the most part, yes. They only really ask the question because they automatically assume you were in jail if you have a gap over 2’ish weeks long. So they’re really just looking for some sort of explanation besides “I was just unemployed for no reason.” Because they assume “no reason” is really “I don’t want to admit that I was in jail.”
BussyCat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It depends on the context if you say you had an NDA and can’t elaborate at all on the details that’s a clear red flag as most NDAs you can at least give the context of what it is about I.e. specific job processes, witnesses an event, etc.
If you say you worked for X company but can’t talk about the details of your work because of an NDA then that’s fine but they might call your old employer to verify you did really work there.
ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Not even remotely.
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I can’t tell you, I signed an NDA
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 2 months ago
Oh. I’m bookmarking this. Great idea.
lemmy12369@midwest.social 2 months ago
I was told one way is: I singed a nda and I’m not allowed to answer that
Draegur@lemm.ee 2 months ago
My refusal to answer is proof that I’m trustworthy :3
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You’d still be asked to provide start and end dates and place of employment if your work was confidential. If the NDA prohibits you from disclosing your employment entirely, it will typically include a restriction against disclosing the existence of the NDA itself.
Scubus@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
“I legally cannot tell you what I was doing from 20xx-20xx”
letsgo@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Was singeing the NDA the reason you didn’t keep that job?
zakobjoa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“I had to provide end of life care to a close relative.”
I have a big gap from a few years of depression and that’s my go to line. I have never ever heard a follow up question.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I have a big gap from a few years of depression
It’s relieving to hear I’m not the only one, that shit was crippling. Glad we both made it through!
zakobjoa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fuck yeah. We survived!
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How big are we talking, I sometimes feel like taking a year off to fix my mental health, but I fear it will kill my career
zakobjoa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I have a year of uni (unfinished), a year of an apprenticeship (unfinished) and then 1.5yrs of joblessness. Started at 20, I learned a trade in my mid twenties and have a solid career now. I just regret I was never able to finish uni.
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 2 months ago
FMLA is always a safe bet. Only one available to care for a dying family member buys sympathy and is an area they can’t legally ask any follow-up questions.
Source: former corporate shill and interviewer
pennomi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Haha, as if anyone actually asks that. A gap gets you automatically rejected by the employment AI, long before humans see it.
dan69@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Can someone confirm for a recruitment standpoint.
lemmy12369@midwest.social 2 months ago
What does one put on the resume then?
etchinghillside@reddthat.com 2 months ago
You use the other AI to fill it in on the resume.
rdri@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes. I created the document in Google docs, and you opened it in Word.
TheBat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s why you should provide PDF of you resume.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 months ago
Nah just give them the
.texsource and let them deal with it.
toastmeister@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I created it in Word and opened it in Teams by accident once.
Hupf@feddit.org 2 months ago
Teams embedded Office is the worst. Like, can you not, and would it hurt to be ⅔ less bloated by doing so?
MisterFrog@aussie.zone 1 month ago
This is on you then. Providing finished documents in an editable format just feels wrong to me
rdri@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sharing a document in Google docs means sharing a link and in many cases with read-only access.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“Sorrry, I have an NDA”
TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 2 months ago
NDAs generally prohibit you from stating that you are under NDA.
Better to be cryptic “I can’t really go into details due to my clearance”.
HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That doesn’t work either
They still want name of employer and dates
Lots of cleared applicants have probably applied there in the past
iamkindasomeone@feddit.org 2 months ago
In Germany, just ask them what the gap between 1933 and 1945 in their company’s history is as a direct response.
groet@feddit.org 2 months ago
I am not sure drawing a comparison between your unemployment and the reign of the Nazis is the best move
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 2 months ago
But if you get a rise out of them it’ll be perfect.
RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
No I can’t. I signed an NDA.
blubfisch@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
The NDA: Dear me, I promise to talk about the fun times only with my friends and not with potential employers. Signed, me.
slappypantsgo@lemm.ee 2 months ago
This can also help you filter the lunatics from the normal workplaces. In an interview, I once explained that I couldn’t discuss specifics of my client work because of confidentiality and NDAs, and they kept pushing. It wasn’t even the same industry! There was no obvious competitive advantage.
CandleTiger@programming.dev 2 months ago
Maybe they wanted to be ver very sure you weren’t covering a not-working period /s
andybytes@programming.dev 2 months ago
On snap… It could work if you are a good bullshit artist
duckythescientist@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
“I took four months off to recover from burnout”
Fallofturkey@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s pretty much what I said - I took some time off for my family. I was getting called 3-4 times a week between 6pm-5am, often times not being present for them, so I had to make a change or risk losing them. I got the job and don’t get called at night. Win-win all except for those 4 months without paying and stress of resume rewrites and a million applications.
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes. I’ve basically said that, not that I’ve had such a rude, direct question from an interviewer.
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“That is the year when I was happy.”
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
“I cosplayed as a person who was free.”
slappypantsgo@lemm.ee 2 months ago
This question should be illegal to ask.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
“I was consulting.”
It’s true, I was giving out advice left and right.
camelbeard@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It was my sabbatical, and be really smug when you say it, like I’m better than you.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 months ago
“I inherited some money and could afford to pursue personal interests (getting high and playing videogames)”
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Online and on video games.
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I totally had a guy catch and call me on that
“Those 3 months I did consulting for a local elderly care facility, helping them learn some computer basics”
“Sir, your parents don’t count” without missing a beat. I actually did help other people in that specific chunk he was asking about, but rude lol, and I think that might even be a big part of why I didn’t get that one tbh
Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I was working on my mental health
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Oh you have had mental health problems? I’m not sure we’re going to be a good fit for your kind…
toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
in other words, it’s why i’m not trying to strangle you for asking me that question!
lime@feddit.nu 2 months ago
i have never been asked this question and i actively remove positions that aren’t relevant to the job i send that particular resume to
stoly@lemmy.world 2 months ago
An idiot asked me that once when I had just finished my masters. Like did you read my resume?
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I think they do that to:
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Judge your reaction to being asked stupid questions.
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Check that you know what’s written on your CV, to see if you’re lying on it or something?
C) Because someone else chose the candidates for interview.
stoly@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Based on the context and my own personal experience as a person who has interviewed hundreds as a hiring manager --not syaing I do this, just that I understand-- they said “HEY FRANK WE NEED YOU TO SIT IN THIS INTERVIEW IN 30 MINUTES. K THANKS” and Frank showed up and tried to pretend that he knew what was going on.
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NoMadLadNZ@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
Those were the times I was taking time off to argue with the voices in my head that were telling me to kill again.
Texas_Hangover@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Did you win the argument?
JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 2 months ago
For like 3 months out of the 2 year gap, yeah
NoMadLadNZ@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
That’s what the interviewer asked too. The voices didn’t like that question…
twice_hatch@midwest.social 2 months ago
Took a year off to let everyone else catch up 💅
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
“Those are line breaks. You see it’s easier to read if you break up blocks of text into paragraphs separated by a whole empty line.”
PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
That’s too much info. A simple “I can” answers their question.
Dearth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes, i was pursuing other opportunities that do not relate to this field so i did not include them
joyjoy@lemm.ee 2 months ago
“The economy”
Litebit@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If i have to explain the gap (which clearly means I was not employed), it means you are incompetent, you fail my interview, I don’t work with incompetent bosses.
refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
“Yeah, I spent that time driving Uber/Doordash/whatever.”
Nalivai@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Depending on your career, this might be worse than not doing anything
doug@lemmy.today 2 months ago
It’s called a line break. Now I know why you needed someone proficient in MS Word!
Event_Horizon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I always put in “traveling overseas”
In my case this is actually true, but I’ve never had anyone question me taking 12 months off every few years
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Time loop
I could have been in that gap once, twice … a million times … we don’t know
Suavevillain@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Me: “I was moving in silence or under a NDA.”
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
I had a six year gap. I tried to found a startup with a buddy and it fell through. I had enough savings to spend time learning new technologies and leveling up my skills. It made me unemployable. It really sucked. Finally taking a temp gig for four months got the phone to start ringing.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
"I was unemployed"
"I took a sabbatical"
kadup@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The size of my enormous sack
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Randy Marsh, sir, you’re hired.
LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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