Comments on: How to Explain Away a Big Gap in Work History

By: Erin Kennedy, CPRW, CMRW

Erin Kennedy, CPRW, CMRW — Fri, 04 May 2012 18:37:05 +0000

Shefali- You can talk about the gap in the resume as a time when you took your personal sabbatical to take on professional development. Might as well embrace it and put it where a job would be. You can use it as a job title even.

Hope this helps!

Erin

By: shefali

shefali — Thu, 03 May 2012 19:24:47 +0000

If I have had 2 gaps ..one being 6 months or so and another after a layoff of a year.
how would i present that in my resume? in the midst of it, i took training both times and opened up my own company…

do i put the the training in the end of the resume and combine it with education? then it wont be chronological….or do i split up all my education and training and put it in chrono order?

By: Erin Kennedy, CPRW, CERW

Erin Kennedy, CPRW, CERW — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:56:46 +0000

Hi Jorgen,

I agree. I think it works the best, too. I hear that every so often from clients. I think it makes a great conversation piece!

By: Jorgen @ Personal Branding

Jorgen @ Personal Branding — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:05:55 +0000

I think the old ‘traveling around the world’ excuse works the best – nobody can really blame you for going out and exploring the globe after being laid off.
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