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Advice for someone trying to get back to work

  • 16-10-2005 10:35pm
    #1
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭


    I've a mate who's been out of work since July.
    They left their job on bad terms and I think suffered a bit of depression since then (combination of other things in her life).
    She's collected her thoughts and has "recovered" over the time off and is now trying to get back into the workforce, but is worried about how to explain the past couple of months off to agencies and potential employers in an interview.
    I've told her to say she went travelling, but she is afraid of being caught out (and probably isnt to happy on lying either).
    Is there anyway she can come out positive of it when she's asked "so, what have you done since you left your last job?"


Comments

  • #2
    RicardoSmith
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,264 ✭✭✭RicardoSmith


    What did they do? Can you not put a spin on it so its not 100% invention?


  • #3
    DonkeyStyle \o/
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,145 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    "I took some time off for personal reasons."
    What can they say to that?
    I hate employers who think it's their business what I've been doing between jobs... as if it's somehow unheard of to take a breather once in a while.
    God, if you can't spend a few months sitting around the house in your pyjamas watching StarTrek and Judge-Judy, without the spanish inquisition, then what kind of world do we live in?!


  • #4
    ionapaul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,307 ✭✭✭ionapaul


    I once had a potential employer (a peer interviewer at Google, to be specific) enquire about the 'personal reasons' I didn't move to the States after spending a few months preparing to emigrate...when I told her she immediately regretted asking! Once you say personal reasons if they should know enough to leave well alone...


  • #5
    DonkeyStyle \o/
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,145 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    So what were your personal reasons for not going?
    Or will I regret asking? :D
    j/k

    That's my thinking aswell... "personal reasons" suggests in my mind a seperation from your "professional life" and verbally sets a kind of boundary... a polite way of saying "none of your business, thanks all the same, don't go there".
    Although there's always the problem of the employer assuming the worst, letting their imagination run away with them, and assuming what they will.

    Don't be afriad to lie to them though, I was 100% honest at my last interview and I swear I'll never do it again... next interview I get I'm lying through my arse.


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