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Originally Posted by BonzoHansen
It's the time between that paper and the interview I'm speaking of. If you have been doing X (let's say earning some related certification) than that is fine. It is not idle time. Idle time can be bad time.
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Absolutely. You don't want to show a gap in your resume.
When I was looking for a job after graduation in '05, the market was a bitch but nowhere near where it is now. I can't imagine being out there now. How do you expect to get hired when companies don't even have the money to pay their current staff?
For reference, when I graduated I had a BS in Computer Science from St. Joe's (#1 in my class) and an MS in Computer Science (went on a full scholarship w/stipend, graduated in top 5) from Villanova with a specialization in Software Engineering. My "summer jobs" were with places like Johnson and Johnson and General Electric. I had a ton of "leads" and people cold calling me all of the time- for crap jobs, or low salary, or contract work, or jobs thousands of miles away in bumblescum. Very few of them panned out into anything more than a phone interview. No matter how solid you may look it can (or is) very difficult to nail down a place to start a career. You can probably find a
job almost anywhere- but a good place to start a
career is much harder. You may have to take that low salary to get in the door, and see where it goes. If you aren't closer to where you want to be after a year or two, cut and run with 1-2 years of experience on your resume. That puts you in a different "class" when you are out there looking for a new job.