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đź‘Ť Sample Resumes : Managing Employment Gaps
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- How to Manage Employment Gaps on Your Resume
- Resume Samples: Older, Laid-Off Job Seeker
- Resume Samples: Unemployed Job Seeker with an Employment Gap
- Resume Samples: Mom Returning After a Gap, Making a Career Change
Next week: Smart & Successful Interview Answers
A resume without employment dates considerably
underperforms a resume with dates. This means that if you want to land 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).
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NY Times best seller author Martin Yate offers formatting strategies enabling you to create resumes that do not show gaps, while being truthful. The same strategy won't work for all periods of unemployment. Martin provides strategies for different timeframes, from no gap to unemployment that has extended more than two years.
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James Z. Carpenter (not his real name) was unexpectedly
laid off from his last position. It wasn't his fault, of course, but being unemployed could put him at a slight disadvantage because some employers view an unemployed job seeker as less desirable than an employed applicant. And the longer James is unemployed, the less attractive he may be to a potential employer.
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James doesn’t want to look like he is being inactive during his job search, so he is taking advantage of some free time by taking classes to enhance his technical expertise in today’s modern social media applications. Resume expert Erin Kennedy created a resume for James that presents him as active and provides support for his professional expertise. See two versions of this resume: a
formal resume and an ATS resume version.
Anna Gonzalez (not her real name) is an unemployed human
resources specialist who has an employment gap in her resume because she needed to pursue a certificate in Human Resource Management and her SPHR designation. To keep on top of her HR skills in a professional setting, Anna eased her way back into the workforce by volunteering a few hours a day at her local hospital.
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Not only did her volunteerism keep her administrative skills sharp, it also gave Anna something to put on her resume to show she was staying involved in her field, even though she wasn’t employed. See if you can find her employment gap in the formal version of her resume or the ATS version, both created by Erin Kennedy.
LaDonna Davis (not her real name) quit her teaching job
and spent 5 years as a full-time mother. When she returned to the job market, LaDonna faced 2 problems: the 5-year employment gap and her decision to change careers. This is a common issue when returning to the job market after an extended period.
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Although LaDonna always thought she wanted to be a teacher when she grew up, she decided that she did not want to return to teaching when she re-entered the job market. So, the resumes created by Erin Kennedy address both of those issues, as usual, with two versions of LaDonna's resume, a formal version and the ATS version. See how the two issues of managing an employment gap while making
a career change were successfully handled.
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