Timeline for Teaching job application: Should I make any references to a gap year in my employment history due to depression?
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| May 13 at 12:56 | vote | accept | I Like to Code | ||
| May 8 at 2:34 | comment | added | Wolfgang Bangerth | @Karen Perhaps, but that's out of your hands. If they're professionals who've been around for a while, they will understand that there could be many reasons behind not wanting to answer the question, some of which are negative, but that in the end they really can't know. | |
| May 7 at 23:36 | comment | added | Lii | I don't quite disagree overall, but you say that people "should not" infer anything negative from saying "personal reasons", but if someone is asking in the first place, it's quite possible they consider it important, and may take a vague reply like "personal reasons" negatively whether they should or not. | |
| May 7 at 11:04 | comment | added | gerrit | In addition, depression in particular is sensitive because it carries a risk of relapse, and no employer no matter how nice wants to risk having an employee out of service for multiple months at least in case of a major depressive episode. | |
| May 6 at 19:44 | comment | added | Wolfgang Bangerth | Yes, precisely. | |
| May 6 at 19:35 | comment | added | bubbleking | This is a good answer. I know some people may be thinking that with all the messaging out there about removing stigma from mental illness, this should be okay, but that's naïve and foolish. We may have come forward a bit with our understanding and (sy/e)mpathy for such things, but it will likely never happen that you can broadcast this kind of information about yourself with zero fear of a negative outcome. More to this answer's point, it simply isn't NECESSARY to include it, so why take the risk? | |
| May 6 at 10:01 | history | answered | Wolfgang Bangerth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |