Since it is vague interpret it in the way that best suits you :)

Don't say anything negative about yourself if you can help it lest they filter your application to the trash before even interviewing you.  

I think in such situations LESS is MORE :)

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 09:53, Tim Bogart <timbogart@yahoo.com> wrote:

All,

Please forgive me for my stupidity, but I've never been able to wrap my brain around this one.

I am filling out an application for a major corporation and on it they wish me to provide dates of unemployment for the last seven years.  That I get.  The part I don't get is that they wish me to provide an explanation for those periods.  Explain what?  Why I was unemployed?  I got laid off, or the contract expired or I got fired from the previous position.  Or, why I was unemployed or why I couldn't find work?  I dunno.  Am I to explain why a company didn't want to interview me, or hire me, or didn't get presented with my resume?  This one just dumbfounds me.  To me, this is just a stupid way to word something.  Oh, and by the way... nobody answers the help line.  Nice...

Any thoughts?

Tim B.

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