Tagged “gaps”
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Gig Work in the Middle of Your History
Delivery shifts, temping, marketplace selling: whether platform work goes on your resume, where it goes, and how to write it up without inflating it.
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A History With Several Gaps, Not One
Four short breaks across a decade need a different treatment than one long one. How to handle a punctuated work history without labelling every hole.
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The Functional Resume Question
Skills-based resumes promise to hide a messy history. Here's what they actually signal to a reader, and the hybrid format that works better.
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Writing About an Employment Gap
A labelled gap reads better than an unexplained one. How to put a break on your resume in one line, without over-explaining or apologising.
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When a Job Ended Badly
A dismissal or a job you left fast doesn't get explained on the resume. It gets dated accurately, kept short, and answered properly in person.
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Writing Your Resume After a Layoff
Redundancy is a decision about a role, not a verdict on you. Where the word belongs on the page, and how much of the circumstances to include.
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Returning to Work After Caring for Someone
A caregiving break is one dated line and a category, not a story. How to write the return, and how to bring the last role back into focus.
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Applying While the Gap Is Still Open
An unfinished break is harder to write than a closed one. Give the current period a dated entry, a category, and something true happening in it.
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A Career Break You Chose on Purpose
Travel, study, or a deliberate year off is the easiest kind of gap to write, because it has a reason. Name it, date it, and don't overbuild it.
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How Much of the Story Belongs on the Resume
A nonlinear history has explaining to do, but the resume is the wrong place for most of it. A division of labour across the four places you can do it.
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Months or Just Years on a Resume
Dropping months to blur a gap is a recognised move, and experienced readers notice. When years-only dates are fine, and when they cost you trust.
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Part-Time and Reduced-Hours Work on a Resume
Part-time years are employment, not a partial gap. When to state the hours, when it's irrelevant, and how to keep the scope of the work visible.