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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am looking at resumes right now. Two things: It is a red flag if someone isn't working currently. I tend to put these resumes in a second tier because I'm uncertain why they are unemployed. Often i never have to look at the second tier pool, because I find good candidates to interview in my preferred pool.

Second, the longer someone is unemployed, the worse their resume looks to me. If you've gone more than a few months, you're in the reject. This means that you need a plan (and I don't mean a "I'll collect unemployment" plan) that keeps you from falling into the reject pool. Maybe you could line up office temping or have a volunteer post that you've already lined up with a project that is meaningful to your line of work?

In sum, I'd be very cautious to quit without another job lined up.[/quote]

Do you ever consider that if every HR department does this, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy? For example, if you are laid off from a job and then one by one other employers refuse to hire you because you are not working, you will be unemployed for longer and longer? I appreciate that you would consider temping or volunteer work as some attempt to work that may get the person back in your first tier pool, but I would encourage people not to dismiss people just because they aren't working. They may have a good reason that you just don't know (moved across the country for a spouse's job, left to take care of a sick spouse, was laid off when the company downsized…)[/quote]

Agree it is ridiculous to dismiss someone who may have the specific background you're after just because they had time out of employment for what may have been (and probably was) a very legitimate reason.[/quote]

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