How Do I Write a Resume When I Have Large Gaps in My Employment Record?
Having to write a resume is hard enough, but now you find yourself trying to explain some significant gaps in your employment history. While they may be easily explained to your immediate family, trying to pull this off to a human resources person is a different story. Is there a way to summarize a resume’s experience section without misleading the reader? Of course, but you must learn a different way of structuring the document. A typical resume contains the header, objective, education, experience and miscellaneous sections. The first thing that you can do is to examine the experience section and list every job that you have had and the dates employed there. If there is a gap of several months, this can be easily fixed by just listing the years that you were gainfully employed at this location. It isn’t necessary to list every job by the month and year anyway, so you haven’t lied about your experience and haven’t intentionally mislead the reader. Also, your resume now looks like ther
