Ask HN: At what point should you stop resume-padding unemployment time?
3 by djellybeans | 2 comments on Hacker News.
I had a contract that ended in late 2019 and that was the last job I've worked. My current resume still shows my freelance experience as ongoing, with the date range of "2015 to present". At what point should I just cut it off and be blunt with my experience, and tell people I have not worked since 2019? I'm sure this puts an interesting spin after COVID and that certainly had created obstacles (job openings I applied to have closed mid-interviews). But is it safer today, a full two years later after my contract ended, to just tell on my resume my last job was two years ago? I would like to not scare people reading my resume, but I also do not want to cause people to ask, why is the section so short for 6 years of time. Seems very hard to avoid both issues at the same time.