Because of the crisis in my country, employers are no longer able to pay for employees. This has forced me to change my job twice before finishing 6 months with them.
I bet this may hurt my career. How can I overcome this and compensate for this weak point?
Yep, having a number of jobs over short period of time can be damaging to you career, but it doesn't have to be. You can look at it from a couple of perspectives.
Employers perspective
The employer may think that you are not able to have much medium to long term stamina for a job. You will have to explain in your interview about the economic situation. You will also have to be make it clear in your CV that you were force to change jobs due to your companies financial situation, and is not due to your own doing.
Technical perspective
By changing jobs frequently, you don't end up being a master of knowledge and you end up being a person whom skills are stale. You can keep up to date by volunteering at a non-profit organisation. Eg, If you are an accountant, volunteer to do their book-keeping. If you are a software developer, join in some open source project and contribute.
Good luck!
You have to assume that whenever there is wide spread economic crisis employers will understand the impact on job histories.
I would expect that auto workers in Detroit didn't have to spend much time explaining why they lost their job, and that other workers in Detroit didn't have a hard time explaining how the related job losses impacted teachers, hospitals, restaurants...
It can be be used to explain a gap in the work history, or a short job that only lasted a couple of months. Flipping burgers for 3 months does pay some bills, even though it doesn't help your programming skills.
While the news reports unemployment numbers, they sometimes mention the underemployment number's. Those are people who have to work part time, or in lower paying jobs because they have no other choice.
A non-perfect employment history in the economy the world has had the last few years is not something you need to worry about.
Put this note by each job:
Position ended due to company closing down.
Closing down may not quite be true, but if they stop paying everyone due to being out of cash, it's now a company in name only. At least until it gets further funding.
Just make sure that their website doesn't make them appear to still be in business, i.e. if it has recent content.
The main aim with items like this is to deflect questions with up-front honest information.
Any job is better than no job especially while others are out of work. Volunteer if you have to, so long as you have some experience to put on your resume.
In a few years this collapse will be forgotten as the one that happened in 1989 and 2001 are now. Employers will respect if you continue to work but if you wait for things to get better it will not be respected.
Will employers understand? Some will, some wont. But you are not going to get credit for not working but you will get credit for continuing to work. It is not really fair and not a situation of your making. But how you react to that situation is what the employers will respect or not.
