I have some gaps on my resume. So, apparently I am the antichrist.
I told one recruiter about a co-worker I had who had no gaps on his resume. He would come to work and spend the entire day playing games or texting and calling his girlfriend. I am certain he would get chosen for numerous jobs over me even though I am a workaholic.
Gaps are meaningless! The world is too random and using your imagination to imagine the worst when there is a gap on a resume is foolish.
I had one recruiter annoyed with me because I have a large gap on my resume for the time when I was a full-time student in college. I’m not making that up. She wanted an explanation for why I wasn’t working. Recruiters are ridiculous!
Just like with other forms of discrimination people could still judge you silently and withhold a job from you but at least it would stop the harassment by recruiters about gaps.
Just tell them you had to take care of personal commitments during that/those periods.
But what we really need is a jobs program like FDR did. Hell, we can even just redo the infrastructure we did the first time.
Giving money to the rich and hoping some trickles down hasn’t been working, why not true something that’s actually worked before?
Cuz it’s easier and more personally profitable for those who (are allowed to) participate in our government to join the other foxes currently raiding the henhouse.