[ajb]

Well I too am a hiring manager. We get a lot of resume's but most are eliminated for just plain not being a good match to the job description.

In our case we have a fast moving project and so need people with specific skill sets. So having the right skill set has much greater weight than a CV gap.

TBF I would want to know what happened if you are just coming back into the market after a year or more, but if you have one gap is a year or so back and you've been working since, I don't see how that is a problem. I'd be more worried about someone who had no gap but never held a job down for more than 6 months.

Its true that if you are hiring a bunch of common roles you need to filter the CVs somehow.