All Entries Tagged With: "Resume Gap"
How Did You Describe Any Gap In Your Resume?
How did you describe the gap in your resume when you stayed home to look after children? Did you use a term like “domestic engineer” in your resume when you were job hunting? Or did you leave it blank? Read HR exec Kristen Clark’s advice: she left a gap that she later regretted. She’s even [...]
Resume: SAHM Returning To Work After a Gap
When Kristen Clark, an HR professional, returned to work after the birth of her first child, a daughter now four, she didn’t mention the gap in her resume when she’d been at home. In retrospect, she thinks that was a mistake. “I used to have an empty space on my resume, which I would openly explain during [...]
Does Being a Mom Count In a Resume? 3 Ways To Make It Work
Returning to work? Has that time spent looking after your kids done anything for your resume other than date it or cover it in spit up? To find out, we asked the author of a new book, Unlocking the Door to Your Career, Catherine Palmiere. 1) JP: What is the most important thing to emphasize [...]
Returning To Work After a Long Break? Tips For Moms
Great question and answer on the vexed question for working moms: How do you explain gaps in a resume when you return to work after time out looking after family or kids? This is a short excerpt from a very long Q and A on The Sacramento Bee Web site about these issues. Well worth [...]
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