Need advice on finding a job

coman59 · Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 7:58 am Post subject: Need advice on finding a job

I am having problems finding a job again because of a year and half employment gap where i collected unemployment for a while and was just a stay at home dad with my kids for a while. Companies are not wanting to hire me cause of this employment gap and a few incidents on my DAC report. Anyone got any suggestions on a company that might not care about the employment gap. My driving record is totally clean for the past 3 years. I recently graduated from a 170 hour truck driving training course thinking this may help me in getting a job again, but have had no luck. Now companies are telling me i need 6 months experience before they can hire me. I had worked for one company from march 2001 till june of 2005 giving me a little over 4 years of driving experience.

truckinman · Manager Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 6

I'm no recruiter, but something did jump out at me right away when reading your post. Unemployment is for people who are looking for a job and can't find one, not for people who choose to stay home with their kids. My wife stays home with our kids and it never even crossed my mind to have her file for unemployment (although we could use the money!) You may not have meant for it to sound the way I read it, but it sounds dishonest to me, and that may be the reason companies aren't hiring you. Who wants to work with a dishonest person? Who wants to give a dishonest person the keys to their $100,000 truck? Not me, if I had my own truck Very Happy

Anyways, good luck, and think about rephrasing the time when you were on unemployment by saying you were looking for work the whole time, but enjoyed the time you got to spend with your kids too.