How do you answer ' why there is gap in your job' in a job interview?

I feel that it is none of the employer's business WHY you were off. They just want some way to eliminate you. Anyone who asks this question is obviously an inexperienced person who probably is still working at the same company from high shcool (or lack of it).

The skills answer is good, but you can just cover the time by putting your own company name down and put down work that you have done with them. Make it related to the type of job you are doing and mention the work was done for clients. If they want some kind of proof or person to check up with, just give them the name of a friend who you say was your boss and them talk to them. Fight injustice with injustice.

Of course all of this works only if you feel confident that you can do the work.

I once had an interviewer at Boeing, when I was applying for a CONTRACT TEMPORARY job, ask WHY I had so many jobs. The person had NO clue about contract employment and was hiring a contractor! My only problem was that I was so flabergasted that anyone would ask such a stupid question that it took me off guard! They still didn't get it after I politely explained how contracting works (I was not condescending). Duh! The person spent the entire interview staring at me while the others asked interview questions, as though she was trying to see something in my face which indictated I was lying or something. Totally weird AND disrespectful!

This technique was probably out of the new HR manual someone was reading that week, probably because GE was doing it.

It just goes to show you have to be inflappable and prepared.