Perhaps the greatest job interview advice that I've ever heard

[Mark.b2]

26. To be sure, I've not been trained on gaps...

I just am known by my peers to always be curious about gaps on resumes and asking questions about them in interviews. We always do panels of three interviews with on candidate, so my peers know how I interview.

As an another example, I have a colleague, Frank, who is “GPA Snob”. He always focuses in on GPA’s. God forbid, a candidate comes in with less than a 3.80 GPA!

Then, there’s “By-the-Book Amy.” She asks ONLY the questions HR gave us in training as potential questions. Most people I interview with are more conversational with our interviews. Not Amy! She’ll find the most non-sequitur of a question during an otherwise natural conversation.

All good people! They/we just have different interviewing proclivities, I suppose!

I’ve said many times, I probably couldn’t get hired at my company these days. I was far from a 3.80 GPA!