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I am developing a sort of recruitment app. It shows potential candidates.
Currently there is a button which toggles, when clicked between "Show/Hide X unemployed candidates".
I added a date range slider, and want to make the button text refer to the date range. E.g. from 2010 to 2020 there might be 30 unemployed candidates, but from 2018 to 2020, only 4.
I am trying to succinctly say "Hide/Show X candidates who are/were unemployed during the selected date range".
How can I phrase it tersely, but still convey that meaning?

Jason Bassford · Accepted Answer

First, many so-called toggles are in the form of a checkbox, and their descriptive text is only for "show," "display," "enable," or any other such positive action, when the control is selected.
The descriptive text of a checkbox doesn't describe the opposite effect occurring when it is deselected, so there is no reason to do so here either.
Since the slider that lets you select the year will also describe a date range, there is no reason to add that to the text that comes before it.
The following is a shortened, but still understandable, version of the controls and descriptive text:

[x] Show candidates who were unemployed (no selection).
[x] Show candidates who were unemployed (2018–2020).

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