OT - Explaining periods of unemployment on an application

[JD Austin]

Since it is vague interpret it in the way that best suits you :)
Don't say anything negative about yourself if you can help it lest they
filter your application to the trash before even interviewing you.
I think in such situations LESS is MORE :)

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 09:53, Tim Bogart <timbogart at yahoo.com> wrote:

> All,
>
> Please forgive me for my stupidity, but I've never been able to wrap my
> brain around this one.
>
> I am filling out an application for a major corporation and on it they wish
> me to provide dates of unemployment for the last seven years.  That I get.
>  The part I don't get is that they wish me to provide an explanation for
> those periods.  Explain what?  Why I was unemployed?  I got laid off, or the
> contract expired or I got fired from the previous position.  Or, why I was
> unemployed or why I couldn't find work?  I dunno.  Am I to explain why a
> company didn't want to interview me, or hire me, or didn't get presented
> with my resume?  This one just dumbfounds me.  To me, this is just a stupid
> way to word something.  Oh, and by the way... nobody answers the help line.
>  Nice...
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Tim B.
>
>
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