OT - Explaining periods of unemployment on an application

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Author: Tim Bogart
Date:  
To: plug-discuss
Subject: OT - Explaining periods of unemployment on an application
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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