HOW CAN I OVERCOME MY EMPLOYMENT GAP?

Successfully overcoming employment gaps as interview obstacles is not just about the activities in which you engage to look and be productive while looking for work. It’s about time management—how you use that time—specifically. You have all the strategies. You volunteer and use your skills in consulting or internship capacity. Or you put some new skills under your belt in formal training. But you also need to expound upon exactly how you have benefited and how it will benefit the employer. Careerists agree that long term employment gaps sometimes hurt reemployment chances but it’s all in the interpretation. The idea is to overcome the employment gap by not merely reciting the activities in which you participate—but driving home the outcomes. For example, if you learned a new skill, you will want to appeal to an employer’s concern about time, money and production. Tell the employer you learned a certain applicable skill in less time than it would have taken an employed person to accomplish the very same thing. You want to appear vital, savvy with time management and in the swing of things—while proving that nothing was lost in the interim—and that you are still as relevant as if you had never lost your job in the first place—and you are the quick learner you claim to be—thus learning the new job quicker and saving the employer time and money. After all, what else do they care about?

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