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A 6 month gap won't hurt much. Just know how to frame your answer. I’ve had multiple gaps of 6-18 months in my career. It definitely makes you a bit of a tougher sell as a candidate, but it’s not a death sentence. For my current job, I just said I initially stopped working to take care of my health and then spent time deciding what to do next. At another one I simply mentioned how brutal the job hunt was until I found out about the position.
Nah, i think with how the job market is right now there are plenty of people going 4-6 months without work. I would be prepared to speak about why it's taken so long (and try to spin it in your favor) but I wouldn't worry about anyone caring that much about a 6 month gap
Get off your high horse SM1. We pay into it and we should be free to collect once we lose a job. Who cares what you do during that time? I know I don’t.
There are situations where people are genuinely out of work for long periods of time, just kind of the way of it right now. Do you still have to keep sending applications out for unemployment though? I was on it forever ago, and had to make sure to apply maybe twice a week somewhere and document it.
They never check.
I never thought I would need to collect unemployment but have a few times. You do need to apply for new jobs and submit this on a regular schedule. Are you planning on learning a new skill or study for the CPA exam?
Nothing wrong with collecting unemployment. I believe that many people could be in a similar situation.
In the past I had a friend who retrained to become a real estate agent while they were collecting unemployment. It was a good decision for them and they also became fairly successful.
I am not sure where you live but unemployment is normally a percentage of your wages and you have to send in applications to continue to receive, its different than employer paid severance. MA is the highest at somewhere a bit over $800 a week so it isnt paying 100% of your salary plus if you wait until you get to 4-6 months there is no guarantee you will land a job
You need to be actively looking to get unemployment. I believe you need to attest to that. Fine to take a couple weeks off but finding a job should be treated like a full time job until you find one. It could take 6 months+ even if you start now.
When I collected unemployment after 3 weeks I had to do job search training and other stuff to continue to get it. Given you just get like 1200 a month, depending on state, may be more or less I guess. But I didn’t find the extra job search requirements (pretty much for non capable people to learn resources on job search) worth collecting the money and had mine stopped due to non compliance.
The requirements are to keep your unemployed status, accurate. Unemployed means a person actively looking for work. You not looking, would just make you someone who doesn’t work, not unemployed by labor bureau terms.
At the end of the day, abled bodies who intentionally don’t work to collect “free” money says a lot with the problems we have today. Laziness. And takes from those truly in need when actually unemployed. Would be nice if unemployment was an actual useful amount for people laid off to pay their bills during job search, but as long as free loaders are there, it’s just an abuse of the system preventing it to ever get better.
Not being rude, just saying, this is why they say those who work from home don’t work. Because there’s always someone who abuses the system and it in turn, harms the rest.
I actually talked to them and they are the one who told me to just make enough submissions to get the money. I am actively studying to leave to another field. As long as I am working on finding something (whether training/work), it will qualify. I believe the company also pays for partial unemployment money. I am just worrying about the gap here. I do not want to take another accounting job if I am leaving for another field in the future.
It's not free money the unemployment area make you work gor it.
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