What to Do If You Have a Gap in Your Job History/Resume | JobSearchTV.com
I read an article summarizing a survey that ResumeGo.net did about gaps in your job history and what to do.
Resumego.net ran a survey that I’ll have a link to in the show notes, talking about the impact of gaps in resume, and what to do to give yourself more of a chance of getting your foot in the door.
What they discovered is, if someone’s been out of work for two years or more, it’s harder to get an interview. However, whether you’ve been out of work for any length of time, you have more of a chance of getting your foot in the door, if you explain the reason why you were out of work for that period of time.
Now, they used over 300,000 resume submissions to create the data, applying for jobs, with different organizations through different job boards. And what they found is if you indicated that you are caring for a sick family member, or attending to a personal health issue, receiving additional training and education, raising a family versus giving no reason, the first four clearly, clearly help someone get results. And the most results were about receiving training or education.
No matter, you improve the likelihood of you getting an interview, if you provided an explanation in the resume, and not, or, and the cover email or cover letter that you submitted it with. It didn’t guarantee that you got hired because obviously, you had to interview for your qualifications. But providing an explanation made a huge difference when applying to, in the survey, applied to more than 36,000 job openings on different sites using resumes that were, shall we say, similar to real resumes, names were changed. dates were changed a little bit. But fundamentally they were real resumes where an individual provided data and provide an explanation for why they were out of work.
It tells you that you can’t expect someone’s going to contact you to give you the explanation. You have to provide it proactively to cut against the bias that exists, that you’re lazy that you’ve been out of work for so long.
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