By Martin Yate
A resume without employment dates considerably underperforms a resume with dates. This means that if you want to get job interviews you need to use dates in your resume. Employment dates are some of the facts most frequently checked by employers. Consequently, the dates you use need to be defensible (and
confirmed by your LinkedIn Profile).
Managing Different Periods of Unemployment
The same strategy won't work for all periods of unemployment. Below find strategies for different timeframes, from no gap to unemployment that has extended more than two years.
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By Ed Han
Not every chemotherapy patient misses work for an extensive period, but many do. For them, managing chemotherapy may make doing their job more difficult or impossible for a while. The
result may be a gap in employment that is visible on their LinkedIn Profile.
Many job seekers struggle addressing an employment gap. The conventional wisdom in career circles is that an employment gap of more than two or three months must be ruthlessly eliminated. There has long been an employer preference for candidates coming directly from another employer, sometimes even a rival. This type of talent is considered high quality
if they have no employment gaps: they are presumed to be consistently recruited to go elsewhere (apparently, lack of loyalty isn't an issue).
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By Martin YateMost interviews start with a walk through your resume, this gets you used to talking,
and the interviewer a chance to create a mental picture of your career history.
If you abbreviate employment dates, it is quite acceptable to list annual dates rather than month and year, be sure to do so consistently. When references get checked, the factors most frequently verified are dates of employment, starting and leaving salary, and educational attainment. Untruths in any of these areas are grounds for dismissal with cause, and that can dog your footsteps into
the future.
Questions about employment continuity often come early in an interview to help the interviewer understand the chronology of your work history. You must be ready to walk through your resume without hesitation. This, “walk through the resume” exercise is usually a preamble to a more in-depth examination of your skills.
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I wish there were an easy, sure-fire method for anyone who has been unemployed a long time, but unfortunately there isn’t. Still, there are things that a job seeker can do to greatly improve his or her chances. Frequent hiring manager, and
CareerNook.com blogger, Ronnie Ann Himmel shares the perspective from the other side of the table in this very helpful article.
"Wavy" means that you have been or are currently under-employed, have periods of unemployment in your work history, or have changed jobs frequently without career improvement. Chronic illness often leads to this kind of career path because it typically limits what a person can do. Like the parent returning to the workforce or the self-employed worker looking to get back
into the corporate setting, your best bet is to look for the organization that sees opportunity in your background. In this article, Rosalind Joffe, the Chronic Illness Career Coach, offers strategies for overcoming skepticism about an imperfect employment record.
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