Overview

• A viral June 17 Reddit post described an interviewer asking, “I can see you ended high school in 1996, but I can’t see what you did between 96 and 99?”
• The 47-year-old applicant said including every job would make his CV ten pages long before clarifying his three-year post-high school gap
• Despite being the only Swedish-speaking candidate, a requirement for the management role, he was not selected for the position
• The thread has exceeded 5,600 upvotes and prompted many to share their own experiences of being quizzed on outdated resume gaps
• Some users recommend removing months from CVs and listing only years to avoid scrutiny of short or long-ago employment stints