Inventing a work history?

Question

What is the best way to invent your own work history (if you have large gaps, that are putting off employers)?

Can you for example start a business and say that you have been running it for a long time?

Does anyone know the best ways you can do this, to make getting employment easier?

Answer 1

Would you really want to spend your time in the new job thinking when they will find out?

Getting dismissed for lying in your application would be a worse history still.  Just explain the gaps - might have been time out, voluntary work or whatever but it can all be checked.

Answer 2

Its dodgy to make up stories to fill a C.V.- tell them why you were out of work- if you couldn't genuinely couldn't find work then say so. They do sometimes check your work history- i have gaps in my C.V. but i did look after my three children- being a woman with a family its easier to get round. Invention of careers though is never good!

Answer 3

Who is to say that you weren't self-employed, just because you didn't have any customers/

private research projects abroad..are also good

student....well you read don't you?....just say "i was a part time student at xxxxxx" ( wherever you lived)  

If on the dole........engaged in government work