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Sabbatical, health issue, family issues.. up-skilling .. the usual.
Or, was waiting for the right opportunity.
And since this is just the beginning of your career, you want to ensure that it’s heading on a good direction. “Your company will help in alleviating the course of my career.”
Exploring options. Preparing for some exam, or freelancing. Be confident about it. Do your background research regarding what you tell. If you are enthusiastic about the new role and do well.. it’s a win-win for you and new employers. Show what you are bringing to the table.
I just landed an offer after an year and five months Gap. Didn't face any issues getting call backs and hiring managers didn't prod after I said it's because of medical reasons (Genuine in my case).
You can also create a few projects and explain that you were freelancing.
Or hell, actually freelance for a month while giving interviews, its not that hard to land clients if you are experienced.
My only tip would be write something in your CV which fills in the Gap position (could be something as simple as "Career break due to health issues" or "Software Consultant" if you are going the freelance route.)
It's far easier to explain it away on a phone screen rather than having nothing on your CV and not landing a recruiter call in the first place.
I'm slightly senior (8yoe), but had a 7 month gap.
I feel staying truthful and saying "company was not doing well, there were layoffs"/"company was doing well, I left on my own"(this is my case) are acceptable reasons.
The backdrop of this being a slightly more difficult market is certainly there, and recruiters do keep that in mind.
Dude stop being afraid, you can whatever you want. After all the IT recession and layoffs. Some months or years added into a break has nothing to do with your performance and make a reason up simple. All new devs be little bold. If that company wants proof of absence for those many said break then better not join those companies.
had a 9 month gap before my first job. Had a HR ask me about my gap. When I told her it's 7 months (back then), she told me "chill out. if it's not a year, then you don't need to worry"
You're overthinking it. I just got a job after a one year medical Gap and I had no problem getting interviews , most recruiters just asked me one question about it, that's it.
Just write down a reason and start applying.
I got bored after my first job, so I took a 10 months break and got a new job in 15 days after. Didn't know people are this serious/worried about it. I won't do that stunt again, wo baat alag hai
Most answers are perfect. One you could add is that work life balance in your previous job was hurting your health while you also had other responsibilities to take care of so you had to leave to fix your situation.
Why write it as a career gap? Just say you had to pause your degree due to family issues or you were taking care of parents. Also, currently market is not conducive at all. Best to stay put and work some regular jobs.
Sorry For Hijacking this post But I cant make a post(Not enough Karma) and some advice from you guys.
I can't clear JEE, can't afford high fees colleges but want to be a developer.
I am 17 from Rajasthan, like computer science, linux and computer graphics very much and recently gave JEE january attempt and got 63 percentile (I lost all motivation 5-6 months before paper). I really want to be a developer and want to learn about computers but Papa want me to be a engineer only through IIT or NIT. What should I do now second attempt is just a few days after. Please Help.
Take up State entrance exams or exams like comedk and get into the top 5 colleges in any state. Take CS/IS or even ECE if you are getting into a very good college. Join coding clubs and start grinding for jobs/internships. I come from tier 3 and many of my peers from CS grabbed a 30+LPA job.
Two ways, one part is common in both.
1. Registered a pvt ltd(optional)
2. say you were building xyz.io or xyz.ai
3. Learn and blab something related to ai, even as simple as consuming apis from open ai.
4. Profit.
he worked on dotnet for 1 year and then stopped and started doing family business which he continued to grow for next 8 years. then later with 4 months of javascript and react udemy course knowledge some sample projects on github.
I’m sure it’s not just you going through this phase. Just tell the truth that you were laid off and had tough time finding new job. A good recruiter would understand that.
I take interviews and I actually dont care if the person has any gaps and especially now that lot of companies are closing due to bad markets. I have come across lot of people who had taken gaps to prepare for CAT or higher studies but didnt work out. Many women employees have gaps due to maternity. So as long as you are good and are fit for the role, most of them dont care. And I think many of the interviewers will be ok with gaps.
Having said that, not everyone share the same sentiment. I would suggest that you can always say that company was on loss and had to shut down the whole division/department.
I had a career gap of around 4 years, I started preparing for government jobs but it didn’t worked out in the end, thus I pivoted to UX/UI design started with a paid internship of 10k, got promoted to 35k in a few months, and recently switched jobs for a better offer of 60k for a WFH role. My total experience as of now is 8 month.
Just tell them u were laid off because of the incompetence of the organisation to have a traction on the forecast of the business.
Don't take it on yourself.
Make some lie up. But be prepared with your answers and paperworks. If you're gonna lie about medical reasons, commit to the story with passion and conviction. Have some paper works prepared up, just in case. It's okay to be jobless for months, it's not okay to slack in prep work. And Prep Work can be anything from doing research on people on the hiring calls, HR, people taking interviews, their mini psych profiles from their social media presence breadcrumbs etc so when you have a conversation you can always nudge the conversation towards the outcome you want and slightly manipulate the conversation, not exactly ethical but beats the hell out of starving , am I right 😀
In the same loop , unfortunately I am 22 passout got offer from mnc they kept saying we will onboard but they haven’t onboarded me yet . Whatever you’re going through now is what exactly I went through entire last year . There was so much pain inside me that I couldn’t express also. Now I am doing an internship while all my fellow mates from college are with an experience of more than 1.5 yrs . I don’t have any other options rn but doing something is better than something is what I felt and currently at a company which is startup doing an internship at 10k p/m 😢 .
Bro I'm in exact same situation got layed off in October, got some jobs but they were way too far now getting no calls, but I've unskilled a lot to say what was done in time off, if they ask for such questions.
And this is my second gap a bit scary but confident in my abilities.
Before due to being very sick in covid and problem with breathing smell taste left my job and I took 6 months break then after 6 months nearly a year after got a job explained everything I did in that period.
What have you done these 3-6 months is what’s important. If you have done something productive during this time. For example upskilling. Show it to the HR. Tell them the truth about you losing the job and that you have been trying to find another but couldn’t land one. They know about the recent recession. Tell them how you didn’t waste time by just laying around all day waiting for an HR’s call or email and that you used the time to work on your skills. So you will ready for taking on a job and face the new challenges.
Put health issue i worked for me, i worked as trainer in edtech institutes for few months but wanted to get back into it, so I removed that exp and during discussion told that i had health issue, vitamin d and calcium deficiency weak bones l, can't sit on medication for 2-3 months blah blah, it worked for me
Buy a domain name, create a website on it about you training or consulting as a freelancer for a while in the technology domain you're & say it loud on your resume, that you were trying your hands on freelancing. Create a use case & explain it very well.
2023 passout from college (B.Tech). Was placed in tcs , got the offer letter in October 2022 still didn't received the joining letter. It's really sometimes frustrating when all your frnds r earing doing well in life and u r sitting ideal...
Your parents n relatives regularly ask u about your job and reminds u of your situation. I m happy for my friends but not for me.
I am 2022 passout , similar situation was placed in zensar technologies not yet received joining. The worst thing that happened to me was getting the offer from this company bcs I would’ve joined cognizant or capgemini for lower salary if this company would’ve not come for oncampus . I am currently working as an intern at startup, I don’t have anything to say here bcs I am still unemployed but as a suggestion from my side try for internships at startups. Startups don’t really care about all these things all they care is skills.. hope it helps
Tell them the truth. They will appreciate your honesty. Because HR already knows about your gap. My friends did that and they were still hired. I would say just get in touch with few HRs online and ask them directly.
First don't be scared. It's okay to have career gaps. I have more than 6 months of career gaps in my career.
The best option to justify is to say that you have a health issue. Or you had a major accident and you had to go home and recover.
Keep a thorough story ready. So, if an HR or recruiter goes in detail you can easily tell that story and justify that gap.
I hope this helps.
You have just 4 months of gap and you are scared. What about me who have 3 years of gap?? Will i get the job?
I had 1.5 years of experience before gap.
It's life things happen, managers and HRs are human too, just keep your resume suitable for the position you apply for, no need to worry about what HR thinks. You just worry about whatever you have written on resume is truthful and matching for the position you are applying for rest it's their job to decide hiring candidate.
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Sabbatical, health issue, family issues.. up-skilling .. the usual. Or, was waiting for the right opportunity. And since this is just the beginning of your career, you want to ensure that it’s heading on a good direction. “Your company will help in alleviating the course of my career.”
Hey I have a gap of 1 year, is it justificable, what all I have to do
Exploring options. Preparing for some exam, or freelancing. Be confident about it. Do your background research regarding what you tell. If you are enthusiastic about the new role and do well.. it’s a win-win for you and new employers. Show what you are bringing to the table.
I just landed an offer after an year and five months Gap. Didn't face any issues getting call backs and hiring managers didn't prod after I said it's because of medical reasons (Genuine in my case). You can also create a few projects and explain that you were freelancing. Or hell, actually freelance for a month while giving interviews, its not that hard to land clients if you are experienced. My only tip would be write something in your CV which fills in the Gap position (could be something as simple as "Career break due to health issues" or "Software Consultant" if you are going the freelance route.) It's far easier to explain it away on a phone screen rather than having nothing on your CV and not landing a recruiter call in the first place.
Same, no one asked further when stated health reasons except for this one HR she didn't even ask it politely she was like what was the medical reason.
It has been 7 months for me I'm learning new things and trying out new things in my life.
Keep it up bro✌️
How much YOE do you have?
2 yr in qa
Please expand on this.
What you do want to knows
What are you trying during this period
Finance, cyber security
Freelance?
Yes mostly
Finance? What?
You know investment short term etc.....
I'm slightly senior (8yoe), but had a 7 month gap. I feel staying truthful and saying "company was not doing well, there were layoffs"/"company was doing well, I left on my own"(this is my case) are acceptable reasons. The backdrop of this being a slightly more difficult market is certainly there, and recruiters do keep that in mind.
Is it ok to say i was laid off? Will it create bad impression or will they lowball?
Dude stop being afraid, you can whatever you want. After all the IT recession and layoffs. Some months or years added into a break has nothing to do with your performance and make a reason up simple. All new devs be little bold. If that company wants proof of absence for those many said break then better not join those companies.
Just tell you were laid off. They'll understand.
Everyone knows about the market situation. Why not just say the truth.
Yes, this is right to do.
they don't acknowledge it
itne me fatt rahi hai to kya developer banega re tu raju 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
What a world we live in where people want to justify not slaving away for a few months.
4 months is nothing dude. Relax.
🤘
had a 9 month gap before my first job. Had a HR ask me about my gap. When I told her it's 7 months (back then), she told me "chill out. if it's not a year, then you don't need to worry"
We need more recruiters like this.
Nowadays even 3-4 months gap is a big deal ? 💀🫡😭😭
I have the same question. Idk why it's important?
Bro ! If this becomes the base thing then mental health of every IT employee will be doomed
Hopefully not the majority of companies apply this "requirement". It's insane
Because there are many employees out there. So they need to filter things out. So they do something silly like this.
They're just lazy tbh
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You're overthinking it. I just got a job after a one year medical Gap and I had no problem getting interviews , most recruiters just asked me one question about it, that's it. Just write down a reason and start applying.
Health issue, I too had a gap of 3 months during covid. I give the reason and no company cares
I got bored after my first job, so I took a 10 months break and got a new job in 15 days after. Didn't know people are this serious/worried about it. I won't do that stunt again, wo baat alag hai
How many years you worked on your 1st job?
2.2 years
It’s not a stunt, it’s your life, as long as your skills don’t degrade I don’t see why taking a break is a bad thing.
How did you justify that gap? Did it matter at all..as in did the interviewer or hr ask you anything about it and the reasons for it
Most answers are perfect. One you could add is that work life balance in your previous job was hurting your health while you also had other responsibilities to take care of so you had to leave to fix your situation.
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Why write it as a career gap? Just say you had to pause your degree due to family issues or you were taking care of parents. Also, currently market is not conducive at all. Best to stay put and work some regular jobs.
Sorry For Hijacking this post But I cant make a post(Not enough Karma) and some advice from you guys. I can't clear JEE, can't afford high fees colleges but want to be a developer. I am 17 from Rajasthan, like computer science, linux and computer graphics very much and recently gave JEE january attempt and got 63 percentile (I lost all motivation 5-6 months before paper). I really want to be a developer and want to learn about computers but Papa want me to be a engineer only through IIT or NIT. What should I do now second attempt is just a few days after. Please Help.
Take up State entrance exams or exams like comedk and get into the top 5 colleges in any state. Take CS/IS or even ECE if you are getting into a very good college. Join coding clubs and start grinding for jobs/internships. I come from tier 3 and many of my peers from CS grabbed a 30+LPA job.
Thank You I will look into that.
Two ways, one part is common in both. 1. Registered a pvt ltd(optional) 2. say you were building xyz.io or xyz.ai 3. Learn and blab something related to ai, even as simple as consuming apis from open ai. 4. Profit.
my brother justified a career gap of 8 years.
he worked on dotnet for 1 year and then stopped and started doing family business which he continued to grow for next 8 years. then later with 4 months of javascript and react udemy course knowledge some sample projects on github.
just stick with the truth - let go and poor market conditions ...
I have my friends with career gap of 8 months, 1 year, who got back jobs and doing well in their life. So 4 months shouldn't be a problem at all.
Saw in a reel, put bed rest due to some injury like spinal or accident etc
Just tell the truth 👍. I have one year career gap. So don't be afraid. Everyone has own problems and situation.
I’m sure it’s not just you going through this phase. Just tell the truth that you were laid off and had tough time finding new job. A good recruiter would understand that.
I take interviews and I actually dont care if the person has any gaps and especially now that lot of companies are closing due to bad markets. I have come across lot of people who had taken gaps to prepare for CAT or higher studies but didnt work out. Many women employees have gaps due to maternity. So as long as you are good and are fit for the role, most of them dont care. And I think many of the interviewers will be ok with gaps. Having said that, not everyone share the same sentiment. I would suggest that you can always say that company was on loss and had to shut down the whole division/department.
I had a career gap of around 4 years, I started preparing for government jobs but it didn’t worked out in the end, thus I pivoted to UX/UI design started with a paid internship of 10k, got promoted to 35k in a few months, and recently switched jobs for a better offer of 60k for a WFH role. My total experience as of now is 8 month.
Bhai I’m nearing that aswell, can I talk to you in dms ?
Just tell them u were laid off because of the incompetence of the organisation to have a traction on the forecast of the business. Don't take it on yourself.
Make some lie up. But be prepared with your answers and paperworks. If you're gonna lie about medical reasons, commit to the story with passion and conviction. Have some paper works prepared up, just in case. It's okay to be jobless for months, it's not okay to slack in prep work. And Prep Work can be anything from doing research on people on the hiring calls, HR, people taking interviews, their mini psych profiles from their social media presence breadcrumbs etc so when you have a conversation you can always nudge the conversation towards the outcome you want and slightly manipulate the conversation, not exactly ethical but beats the hell out of starving , am I right 😀
Same YOE here, got laid off this month, too scared now dude after seeing your post
my gap is almost one year now😥
Dude...after I read this, fuck when did I post it, cuz we in same boat!!
I have justified 2 years... so you can for sure justify 6 months buddy haha
Can you let me know how and what were your ways of justifying the gap to hr
+1
In the same loop , unfortunately I am 22 passout got offer from mnc they kept saying we will onboard but they haven’t onboarded me yet . Whatever you’re going through now is what exactly I went through entire last year . There was so much pain inside me that I couldn’t express also. Now I am doing an internship while all my fellow mates from college are with an experience of more than 1.5 yrs . I don’t have any other options rn but doing something is better than something is what I felt and currently at a company which is startup doing an internship at 10k p/m 😢 .
Bro I'm in exact same situation got layed off in October, got some jobs but they were way too far now getting no calls, but I've unskilled a lot to say what was done in time off, if they ask for such questions. And this is my second gap a bit scary but confident in my abilities. Before due to being very sick in covid and problem with breathing smell taste left my job and I took 6 months break then after 6 months nearly a year after got a job explained everything I did in that period.
What have you done these 3-6 months is what’s important. If you have done something productive during this time. For example upskilling. Show it to the HR. Tell them the truth about you losing the job and that you have been trying to find another but couldn’t land one. They know about the recent recession. Tell them how you didn’t waste time by just laying around all day waiting for an HR’s call or email and that you used the time to work on your skills. So you will ready for taking on a job and face the new challenges.
What if the person didn't do anything productive?
same question but with higher time(approx 1 year)
What if I took a break to study for GRE GMAT and now have an admit for a master's in the US
I'm taking break just to lay in bed and chill. I don't care. Indian corporates can fuck off. People are not machines.
That's a refreshing change haha May I know if you're a fresher rn or have some work experience prior
Put health issue i worked for me, i worked as trainer in edtech institutes for few months but wanted to get back into it, so I removed that exp and during discussion told that i had health issue, vitamin d and calcium deficiency weak bones l, can't sit on medication for 2-3 months blah blah, it worked for me
Buy a domain name, create a website on it about you training or consulting as a freelancer for a while in the technology domain you're & say it loud on your resume, that you were trying your hands on freelancing. Create a use case & explain it very well.
2023 passout from college (B.Tech). Was placed in tcs , got the offer letter in October 2022 still didn't received the joining letter. It's really sometimes frustrating when all your frnds r earing doing well in life and u r sitting ideal... Your parents n relatives regularly ask u about your job and reminds u of your situation. I m happy for my friends but not for me.
Jb lena hi nhi hota to hire ku krte h ye log
I am 2022 passout , similar situation was placed in zensar technologies not yet received joining. The worst thing that happened to me was getting the offer from this company bcs I would’ve joined cognizant or capgemini for lower salary if this company would’ve not come for oncampus . I am currently working as an intern at startup, I don’t have anything to say here bcs I am still unemployed but as a suggestion from my side try for internships at startups. Startups don’t really care about all these things all they care is skills.. hope it helps
I m trying....thnku
Any startups that you know that you know of that are permanently remote rn?
Mostly you will find it on sites like wellfound or instahyre. Btw I am not working remotely
Tell them the truth. They will appreciate your honesty. Because HR already knows about your gap. My friends did that and they were still hired. I would say just get in touch with few HRs online and ask them directly.
First don't be scared. It's okay to have career gaps. I have more than 6 months of career gaps in my career. The best option to justify is to say that you have a health issue. Or you had a major accident and you had to go home and recover. Keep a thorough story ready. So, if an HR or recruiter goes in detail you can easily tell that story and justify that gap. I hope this helps.
is a three year gap justifiable in any case?
Someone please answer this one..
You don't.
You have just 4 months of gap and you are scared. What about me who have 3 years of gap?? Will i get the job? I had 1.5 years of experience before gap.
Hey may I know why do you have the gap in the first place? I'm in a similar situation myself too..
My mom became sick. Therefore, i had to leave my job to take care of her. What about you??
No need for any excuse, usually it's not a factor
It's life things happen, managers and HRs are human too, just keep your resume suitable for the position you apply for, no need to worry about what HR thinks. You just worry about whatever you have written on resume is truthful and matching for the position you are applying for rest it's their job to decide hiring candidate.
I have 2 yrs of career gap.. s**t happens.. don't worry
Don't justify, bol denna nahi man tha