The New Haven Register -- THOSE who have been out of work several months, or are working outside their area of expertise in order to make ends meet, tend to want to hide that on their resume. They’re worried it will reflect poorly on them and adversely affect their chances of getting an interview. Actually, the opposite is true, because unexplained resume blanks cause question marks. These career aberrations need to be accounted for. Human nature defaults to the negative. We look for problems in order to avoid them. Holes in the resume cause questions which equal problems.
