4 Reasons to avoid having employment gaps in your Cv

[Augusta]

Employment gaps simply means the unaccounted for periods on your CV. Employment gaps is always a potential red flag to a lot of employers especially those ones that have already had bad experience with some employees. You might just add to their statistics of people that don't stay long at a job role and this might just be a turnoff for them. So you would need to avoid these gaps for the below 4 tangible reasons.

1.You might not just be appealing to the right employer. As earlier stated you might just give the employer the reason to think that you are not a serious candidate.

2.You would need to do a lot of explaining than others during the hiring process. The employers would do want to know why and what brought the gaps. Well, if your reasons are not credible enough getting the new job might just be difficult.

3 It might just show you are a laid back or lazy kind of person by not picking up a new job as soon as you lose the previous one for whatever reasons. You would be selling yourself low by having employment gaps in your CV

4.Your CV is mostly likely to be skipped because they are other resumes without gaps on them.

What's your thoughts?

 

[moonchild]

To avoid having gaps in your CV, always make sure you have something doing when you're not in employment, one of the ways you can do this is by starting a business and using the business name as a sort of an employer, so for example let's say you get laid off and you're jobless.

You can start a business called Trendri for example and when next you want to update your CV you can add it to your CV and say you've worked there for the period you've been employed , it's all about telling your employers what they want to hear.

 

[Jara]

Wow, thanks for the advice, I've never heard that before