what explanation should i use to cover four years of unemployment?

That explains why you have 50 years of experience, but are only 35 years old. :D

its the generic term for "trying to find a job"

Since they weren't employers the clients were loathe to provide job references. I learned that I could offer to provide Schedule C info to prove that I was really working during the interval, but that had some disadvantages too when it came to salary negotiations.

did they corroborate the schedule C with any official source?

seems kinda easy to wiggle around that, because they couldn't get that confidential tax info from the govt without the candidate's consent.

The funny thing is that when I did so the interviewer said it wouldn't be necessary.

on edit: I did this for a job where I had the qualifications and experience from a previous employment and consulting was a natural extension of that work. They chose to hire me based on that.

i like munny.

if it is a professional position you can say you were on a sabbatical working on your writing or research that didn't pan out (work on that last part)

if not-just tell them that you went off on a journey and now you have decided that your life's journey has brought you to Kinko's (insert any store name) :-)

Furthering my education

i think i'm going to start having fun with my job search instead of letting it be such a monumental drain on my lifeforce.

you lied to a grand jury about blowing the cover of a covert agent and the President wouldn't pardon you.

Tell them it was a soul-building experience. They'll have no idea what you're talking about, and you'll net some serious points because of it.

That ought to raise their eyebrows a mile high :rofl:

they told me that they had reached the limits of what anal probing could teach them.

I'll need a good answer to this one day. The "four" will be much higher.

:hi:

I can't even get a fucking interview after being self-employed for nearly 10 years. I fear "would you like fries with that" is in my future.

they seem to get.

try to get any kind of job nowadays for any national chain. the standards are excruciatingly high, you better not have one blemish on your Choicepoint background check (which is i think now is the industry standard for background checks). last time i tried, circuit city required signing a consent form for them to pull a social security transcript. any variance between that and your application would be cause for them to withdraw consideration of employment.

small business employment is different, that's where i'm concentrating now, that and temp agencies, but agencies are getting really wacky.

i still don't get the connection between compliance, fitting the "correct" profile, red flags and contingent employment as a TEMPORARY worker.

i've resigned myself to this situation and no longer get upset about it.

Seems to me prospective employers want you to be perfect, have no gaps on your resume, have been employed every fricking working day since you turned 18, and one strike against you is too much. :shrug:

and compliance verifiers.

trail to verify that?

i would think something that can be verified and confirmed by someone would be the way to go.

:shrug:

not that it would be that difficult to "create" a bogus return to show an employer.

I don't think employers would ask for all of that, but any one of them would prove self-employment if proof is necessary. :shrug:

There are probably other options that I haven't thought about.

Didn't want to work with Republicans in control of everything.

:shrug:

RL

and a wedding band.




i wonder how i could translate that on a resume.

:)

:D

RL

that it was very lucrative, but the recent changes in federal law compelled me to get out of that sector.

You were saved when your neighbor had a gas leak and they evacuated the neighborhood. You were dragged, wrinkled, dripping, and with shampoo in your hair, from your shower by the fire department.

by the draconian nanny-state no-online-poker policies of the vile bush administration.

Either that, or you lived in the belly of a whale during the time in question.

and have come to teach them about the uebermensch and inform them that god is dead and that they all killed him.

If there's one of those fish sign thingies on the door, go with the whale story. If it looks like a place populated by rational people, go with the Nietzsche.

Cave
Australian Outback
Rampaging Rabid Wallabies

india
ashram
roving bands of fucked up monkeys stole my passport

you simply regained your memory after an extended bout of amnesia. When you regined your memory you were dressed in a penguin outfit and selling icees to the crowds at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Bribe some witnesses...

and didn't feel that would be appropriate for the workplace.

Shows sensitivity.

in error. A case of mistaken identity.

i like that one. i am swarthy.

But I thought it was a good one. ;)

why were you unemployed for 4 years?

:thumbsup:

I'm a disabled attorney. I can't imagine going back to work in my shape, it would have to be the opportunity of a lifetime, plus lots of pain drugs. However, if I were to try and go back...I'd say that my clients and work in the previous years are confidential, which would generally work, UNLESS, you're interviewing with a firm that's looking for a rainmaker.

Unless it's too ugly.

Redstone

of course I was raising the next generation of hellions.

I also don't have a degree.

Then there is the whole "issue" I have with authority.

Plus I'm lazy.

I'm going to need to get a job soon.

Anyone want to hire me? hehehe.

Good luck datasuspect!

:hug:

almost...

:evilgrin:

It was good enough for Cheney.