What have you been doing the past two years?....... Why did you take an unrelated part-time position?......How did you end up taking courses in Accounting last spring when your background is in Chemistry?
These challenging questions and more will be coming your way as the fog lifts from the job market. I am finding that many employers wore very strong blinders the past few years. While they were laying folks off like crazy, they seem to expect you to have had a stable work history, a classic Catch 22!
My suggestion is to be as prepared as possible. For example, explain the while out of work for 2 years, you had enough unemployment and severance benefits to to take a good hard look at where you were and decided to freshen up your resume by obtaining new shills. To help sustain yourself after the benefits ran out you grabbed a part-time job close to home which would not interfere with your studies or burn much gasoline to get to. Go a bit further and say that by adding new skills you might be able to multitask for a company and save them budget dollars. Good luck!
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