Interviews

And the question for today is "I've been sick for a while. I had an aneurysm but out of work for a year. I'm now able to go back to work. What do I do? How do I explain this time? What do I how do to market myself?" Well, I think the simplest thing to do is, number one, people who know you, people who are your friends, former workers, your network of relationships . . . These are people to reach out to. They probably already know and there's no explanation necessary other than, I'm well .Thank goodness. I am well, I want to relaunch my career and it's time for me to get rolling again.."So they're the easiest ones to speak with. However, there are other people in other situations for marketing yourself, and if you'd send the resume with a one-year-old gap in it, it's really easy for firms to go (buzzer noise () ) and disqualify you from consideration. So, you need to be prepared to talk about what your last year of life has been like. I'm not talking about going into details of every operation you've had or every doctor appointment that you've been to. That's irrelevant. All you have to say in your resume is, " I recovered from an illness for the past year. I am now able to return to work. No issues with my health. I'm ready to roll." Words to that effect. And you may need to compromise on your previous salary. What a surprise but it's no one's business what the nature of the illness was. You can talk about it and that's your choice, but if someone says, " what was wrong," you can turn around and say, " you know, I don't know that that's really necessary. I'll just simply say I had a serious illness and almost died. I'm healthy, again. Doctors love my prognosis. They've encouraged me to get back to work. That's what I want to do." So you don't need to go into all the personal stuff. And if they insist upon it, what's the message to you about that. The message to me is they' don't trust you. They may not trust you because you haven't presented it in a convincing way or because they've had previous experience with liars. That happens! After all, there are three jokes in the recruiting business. First one is how do you tell a job applicants is lying to you and the answer is their lips are moving. So don't be surprised if some firm tries to test you there, but just very politely deflect them by saying, "Hey, look, do you want you want to see all my doctor reports ? Do you want to see my medical stuff? I'll get that over here but a chitchat about is, frankly, unnecessary. I was sick for a year. Legitimately, I was sick for a year. I'm healthy now. It's time for me to get back to work. It's really that simple.

And the question for today is "I've been sick for a while. I had an aneurysm but out of work for a year. I'm now able to go back to work. What do I do? How do I explain this time? What do I how do to market myself?" Well, I think the simplest thing to do is, number one, people who know you, people who are your friends, former workers, your network of relationships . . . These are people to reach out to. They probably already know and there's no explanation necessary other than, I'm well .Thank goodness. I am well, I want to relaunch my career and it's time for me to get rolling again.."So they're the easiest ones to speak with. However, there are other people in other situations for marketing yourself, and if you'd send the resume with a one-year-old gap in it, it's really easy for firms to go (buzzer noise () ) and disqualify you from consideration. So, you need to be prepared to talk about what your last year of life has been like. I'm not talking about going into details of every operation you've had or every doctor appointment that you've been to. That's irrelevant. All you have to say in your resume is, " I recovered from an illness for the past year. I am now able to return to work. No issues with my health. I'm ready to roll." Words to that effect. And you may need to compromise on your previous salary. What a surprise but it's no one's business what the nature of the illness was. You can talk about it and that's your choice, but if someone says, " what was wrong," you can turn around and say, " you know, I don't know that that's really necessary. I'll just simply say I had a serious illness and almost died. I'm healthy, again. Doctors love my prognosis. They've encouraged me to get back to work. That's what I want to do." So you don't need to go into all the personal stuff. And if they insist upon it, what's the message to you about that. The message to me is they' don't trust you. They may not trust you because you haven't presented it in a convincing way or because they've had previous experience with liars. That happens! After all, there are three jokes in the recruiting business. First one is how do you tell a job applicants is lying to you and the answer is their lips are moving. So don't be surprised if some firm tries to test you there, but just very politely deflect them by saying, "Hey, look, do you want you want to see all my doctor reports ? Do you want to see my medical stuff? I'll get that over here but a chitchat about is, frankly, unnecessary. I was sick for a year. Legitimately, I was sick for a year. I'm healthy now. It's time for me to get back to work. It's really that simple.