I hate to say it but the long-term unemployed folks I know who found employment lied. Be it stretching dates, creating a fake company, or getting a family member who owns a business to be your “employer”…some of these companies that make it a point to not hire long-term unemployed (and there are many with this policy), have probably hired long-term unemployed folks who fooled them (lying is unethical but I can’t blame desperate folks too much).

What is not mentioned in this article is how do you get these long term unemployed in to be even considered for evaluation in an interview if most places use computer filtering to pre-evaluate which immediately removes these candidates. You would have to look for the application manually to find it if the program leaves it on file.