What to do with the HOLE in your curriculum vitae

1. Help …
there is a hole
in my CV
Rik Everaert
Belgium
February 2017

2. A hole in your CV ??????
Definition : There exists an interval between
End-date Jobt < Start-date Jobt+1
Issue : HR reflex to ask questions/ be suspicious
Solution : Provide HR with details of the hole.

3. It was a BLACK hole
Black hole in Physics, suck all energy
Sons and daughters of Mama Africa, do have some
Say to the HR officer
- I experienced black-magic, so nice…
- These were the darkest periods of my life and it
took me long to get out of that dark hole
- I was exhausted, but it went better when i
bought an electric car.

4. It was a RED hole
Woman bleed that’s evermore true
It is the colour of the socialists
 Say to the HR officer
- I went to a commune
- I took time to professional invest in the Chinese
stockmarket
- I took cooking classes to learn a 1000 ways to
make spaghetti-sauce

5. It was a BLUE hole
The blue hole, is a famous diving spot in Belize
Blue blood = nobility and higher ranked persons
The colour of police and liberals
Say to the HR officer
- I dived into the backlog of books to read
- I needed time to cool down and link again to my
surroundings / family
- I took time to invest in some potato companies

6. It was a GREEN hole
The Irish + St-Patrick symbolize green
A lot of the vegetables are green
Say to the HR officer
- I was member of a project, aiming to grow
vegetables from Paraguay over here
- I needed the exact 157 days to build a block-hut in
my garden.
- I took time to invest in greenfields energy projects
in the Sahara.

7. It was a YELLOW HOLE
Colour of the sun, gold, urine
The famous yellow submarine
Say to the HR officer
- I was a guinea pig for a newish mediation
technique in the Himalayan mountains
- I needed to place myself in the universe
- I followed courses to make pottery

8. On this last slide, you are
1) Suspicious : what is the author hiding ? Nothing, but
bookstore with detectives will satisfy your needs.
2) Out-of-mind : There might be a hole, inside the hole
concealing another hole : The unified hole theory …
3) Reactive : it is nice when people give things away for
free, but you bet on tennismatches…
4) Intrested : always good when a dung-beetle improves
soil (= skills and knowledge to learn stuff)
5) Happy : now finally you can show the HR-officer there
was some sophistication in the hole you had
6) Angry : you never ever had a hole in your CV because
you are perfect.