This document provides guidance for job seekers returning to work after a resume gap. It advises listing meaningful skills and experiences gained during time out of the workforce, such as volunteering, community leadership, short-term work, family business assistance, or property management. These should be organized in a chart specifying the experience, associated skills with measurable results, and how the skills would benefit a potential employer. Framing opt-out time as developing supplemental abilities can help job seekers overcome resume gaps when re-entering the job market.
This document provides guidance for job seekers returning to work after a resume gap. It advises listing meaningful skills and experiences gained during time out of the workforce, such as volunteering, community leadership, short-term work, family business assistance, or property management. These should be organized in a chart specifying the experience, associated skills with measurable results, and how the skills would benefit a potential employer. Framing opt-out time as developing supplemental abilities can help job seekers overcome resume gaps when re-entering the job market.
This document provides guidance for job seekers returning to work after a resume gap. It advises listing meaningful skills and experiences gained during time out of the workforce, such as volunteering, community leadership, short-term work, family business assistance, or property management. These should be organized in a chart specifying the experience, associated skills with measurable results, and how the skills would benefit a potential employer. Framing opt-out time as developing supplemental abilities can help job seekers overcome resume gaps when re-entering the job market.
On the chart below, list your meaningful skills and experience from your opt-out years, for example, volunteering, community leadership, short- term paid and unpaid gig work, help with a family business, asset or property management. etc.:
Experience Skill Benefit to the Employer
What I do/did Give it a name. Job currency: how your skills and/or experience benefit the List measurable results. organization and its people