Companies take your unemployment length as a negative signal

"He's been unemployed for 13 months? Why doesn't anyone want to hire him? Must be something wrong with him"

It's typically easiest to find a job when you have a job.

	▲	Waterluvian 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Maybe. Probably? But I also sense a fallacy here. I could get a new job tomorrow. Maybe it took me 8 years to find that job and I didn’t realize that because I was employed the whole time. Does that make sense?