The placement agencies was, is and will be be extremely competitive. Many freshers find fails to offers good job due to lack of relevant experience in their choice of industry. Searching a job while you are between two jobs is the worst situation than searching a job without any experience.
Nowadays resume gap has become a common trend. A lot of working professional, they choose the job without completing their search for that dream job. Whatever be the reason, unemployment affects your record in the eyes of your prospective employer. While between jobs, don't forget to use your productivity, because your employer will like to know how you kept yourself busy?
There are many ways to keep yourself occupied and utilize your productivity while you are unemployed and between jobs. Here are few example – join any course till you get employed, you can take the classes in your interested field,this will upgrade your knowledge and skills. By going for a higher studies or join some short term course, you can utilize your time and can increase your growth. Utilize this time to complete the work which you wanted to do from long time ,but could not due to lack of free time. You can join music classes, involve yourself in community, start small scale business of your own. You have endless options in front of you.
Networking- Spend your time with the people within your own industries. The people with whom you complement your profession will never hurt you. Try to utilize your time upto fullest when you are unemployed, this will help you to stand positively and strongly. And it will also help you to face the tricky question asked by employer in the future.