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.

  • Please_Do_Not@lemm.ee
    16·
    7 months ago

    100% agreed with the opinion, but just as a practical point, talking poorly about people you used to work with (even those who definitely deserve it) is an immediate dealbreaker for a lot of recruiters/HR. So even being valid, talking negatively about other people without employment gaps probably isn’t helping you the way it should.

    • jobocky1@lemmy.worldOP
      6·
      7 months ago

      You are correct. I don’t do that regularly. That specific time I had already lost the job and I was venting my frustration to this one recruiter who was not going to give me the job due to a job gap. I was trying to talk some sense to him and explain how gaps are a meaningless way to value a human being but I knew it wasn’t going to work. I had already lost the job and that was just at the tail end of the conversation.