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Yeah - I'm still looking for that job fit. Takes a while sometimes.

Problem is, if I'm looking at hiring you I'm not sure if I'm going to get my money's worth. Hiring is not cheap, plus there's the ramp up time, and the impact on other people's performance while you're ramping up.

If your work history shows you're not likely to stick around for a couple of years, that will count against you in any consideration.

Some times you need to make decisions about how much crap you'll put up with, so that your job history makes you more marketable.

Your resume / work history is one of the first things a recruiter or hiring manager will see about you. It has to speak for you on what kind of employee you are, and you have to assume they're going to take it the worst way.

I got asked a lot of hard questions in recent round of interviews about the one gap out of a history that's quite long. Haunts you if you don't have a good story up front.

The same applies to short periods of employment. Take your time during updating the CV to create convincing language-neutral explanation, because „they were among the stingiest cheapskates in this part of the continent”, or „their codebase was monumental dried pile of Java” will not work in your favor.

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