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.
Definitely second on the "just lie". I have lied about something to get most of the jobs I've had. Who cares. They are there to extract the most value out of you as possible and I'm there to extract the most paycheck out of them as possible for the least amount of work possible. Don't lie in a way they could look it up or anything, don't make up a job or something, but for a gap just lie. A family emergency, a backpacking trip to find yourself, tried to start your own business, etc. And the when they ask you follow-ups to that just lie about that too. They won't check and they won't ask again. Who cares.