Some of you have contacted me about having graduated a year or more back and continue to be unemployed.
If the interviewer asks you for the reason for the gap, you can say you had some personal problems and had to take a break. If you were helping out the family business you can also say, due to personal problems you had to help your father/uncle or whoever in his/her business and were working full time on that.
If you worked as a freelancer, you can say that too. Make sure you have details about the freelance work you did. And also add it in the resume if it is worth adding.
If you took part in helping your friend in a startup or you worked on starting your own company you can also mention that. This is helpful especially if you are an IT fresher. It doesn’t matter if the startup or your idea failed. They will respect you for being bold and trying it out.
But be prepared to back up these claims. They may start asking more questions, cover all angles and have answers ready. Last thing you want to do is panic and let them see you in that avatar.
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