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.
I’m 35.
I left school at 16. Did a year at collage before deciding it wasn’t for me. I then spent a year doing nothing. Not totally unusual for a 17/18 year old. I then spent 15 years working for the same company, without any gaps in my employment.
To say I was surprised when the interviewer asked about the gap in my resume from 15 years previous when I’m a 34 year old would be an understatement; it was literally half a lifetime ago.
Fifteen years at the same company bro, that’s the important part of that résumé, not the 8 months that a 17 year old kid had off. Fuck me.
I would have told the recruiter that detail was unimportant, and I wouldn’t be answering any further questions about that subject.
Wow! That is an extreme level of ridiculousness!
Change your resume to hide that gap. What’s another 8 months tacked on to 15 years?
Yeah I’ll be doing that going forward. Truth be told I did some volunteer work during that time, but I didn’t deem it overly relevant to the job I was going for, plus with it being 15 years ago…you know.