Need a better way to explain what you did between jobs? Trying to re-enter the job market after a long time? Here’s how to explain your resume gaps.
In this article, I tell and analyze my own experience before getting to 7 resume gap tips at the bottom.
How I explained my gaping resume gap
Not all resume gaps are signs of poor job searching, sometimes there were legitimate reasons for the break between jobs.
During my job search in 2006, the question was often phrased like this:
“I see that you worked at Amazon.com in France until August 2001, but that your next job only began over a year later in October 2002. What happened there?”
I would usually grin out of familiarity with the question and then reply with something like this:
“In August 2001, I resigned from my managerial position at Amazon.com in France because I wanted to move back to Israel.
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