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Career / 6:44 PM - Wednesday November 04, 2009

How do you explain away a 1 yr gap on the resume?

It is a small world and too many of my former colleagues know that I just wanted to take time off to check-out for a bit.

But how do you spin that to an employer?

Update: November 04, 2009.
I can't really lie with some of the more outrageous ideas because they know too many people who have worked with me that they could ask. I couldn't lie about winning the lottery- that would be too easy to be caught lying or having people remember it and forced to continue lying about it.

- Asked by Female, 36-45
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