[shaftway]

I've seen people have success with a more legit version of the Circuit City scam.

For the uninitiated / younger generations, Circuit City was the Best Buy of the early 2000's. In 2009 they went out of business and laid off ~60,000 employees. It was a rough time to be looking for work; lots of people had been affected by the financial crisis and a lot of people had gaps on their resume of 1 to 3 years. And then all of a sudden, nobody had a gap. And there were a sudden influx of people who had been managers at Circuit City. And you couldn't confirm it, because Circuit City had just closed.

Nowadays the scam is to find any recently closed, large firm and claim you worked there with whatever BS title you want. A LinkedIn profile can actually be your downfall here, so don't have one. The over-employeed community does this, claiming that they had to take it down because of a stalker. But I wouldn't advocate this. If your company finds out then there are probably legal repercussions.

But it doesn't have to be a scam. Form an LLC, spend some time up-leveling skills, and put that on your resume. It explains the gap, and gives you an excuse for why it looks like you weren't doing anything.

[hnthrow0287345]

>Nowadays the scam is to find any recently closed, large firm and claim you worked there with whatever BS title you want.

This is likely why background checks even for non-sensitive/non-cleared positions are being applied. I just ran through one as a Senior Dev for a company. I guess it's more likely the more money you make too.

So if you're going to try this, you'll have to ignore companies with a background check or start forging W-2s or other documents, but who knows what data they have these days and how easy it is to fool them