Hi chapo, How the fuck do you find work when you have major gaps in your resume?
Short story: I went through a long fucked up period dealing with addiction and mental health issues. I'm fairly okay now mentally/psychically. But I'm having a real hard time finding work. Last time I had a "real" job was over five years ago, also around the time I graduated college. But I have nothing to put on my resume since then. I have zero networking connects, no one to put as a reference.
I need a job real bad but I don't know what to do. With no experience and no connects I feel like no one wants to hire me, but I can't fulfill those requirements without finding work that I can't get. I fucking hate it.
I'm also dogshit at doing interviews and I don't know how to explain long work absences without freaking out employers. What can I do?
P.S. I don't wanna say where I live for privacy reasons but I do not live in America.
Make up a company that you started and failed. They love failed capitalists. I generally don't have to account for the two year gap in mine where I did nothing but drugs and orgies because it was more than ten years ago, but that used to be my go to; small food delivery start-up that was purchased by grubhub for our software. Now I'm a senior manager with a billion dollar company who just got a $10k raise out of the blue yesterday because my boss knows recruiters are out looking for people with my background and skills. Also, look for jobs in warehouses, but not Amazon. I just raised the starting rates as well as the existing rates of pay for all 11 distribution centers I'm responsible for because I ran comps in every market and we were falling below the 60th percentile in wages,
How much effort did you have to put into making a fake company? Did you make the company relevant to the type of work you were looking for? I have an feeling that people in my field would recognize a fake company, so maybe I should do something more tangentially related.
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