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How to explain gaps in a CV

  • 05-07-2014 8:23am
    #1
    shadowcomplex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,097 ✭✭✭shadowcomplex


    I am in permanent employment and have been for the past 6 years with no gaps, I am starting to look around for other similar jobs in Cork. Before I started my current job in 2008 I have 2 gaps in my CV that I will find it hard to explain without sounding negative, some people have told me just to lie and say you went travelling but I'm not comfortable doing this either.

    Basically the first gap is because, I left a job I was employed in for 18 months because I didn't fill fulfilled in the role and found it quite boring, what I was thinking of saying here is the truth and that in hindsight it wasn't the smartest decision to leave a job without have found a new one first and that its something I have learned from.

    The second gap is because I went back to do my honours degree but ended up dropping out because I found the transition going back to full time education tough going.

    It shouldnt be a big deal anyway, ive been in my current job for over 6 years and its where I have the most experience in. Any advice appreciated


Comments

  • #2
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,288 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    Definitely tell the truth about the 2nd one, no shame there.

    Maybe find a white lie about the first. What did you do with your time, eg did you spend any of it helping a family member who was sick? Or if you were travelling, make sure you have watertight story about where you were and what you did - remember that the person interviewing you may have been there.


  • #3
    Lilly Gifted Grapevine
    Posts: 0 ✭ Lilly Gifted Grapevine


    Mrs OBumble wrote: »
    Or if you were travelling, make sure you have watertight story about where you were and what you did - remember that the person interviewing you may have been there.

    The OP has been working for 6 years and we'll guess did a year of college, so this travelling would have been 7+ years ago. I've done plenty of real travelling in the past 7 years and wouldn't have a watertight story for it all because I certainly can't remember every detail over that time period.


  • #4
    NZ_2014
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 306 ✭✭NZ_2014


    You could just delete anything more than six years old, if possible?


  • #5
    doolox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭doolox


    Anything older than that especially a few months will not be noticed.
    You have a 6 yr uninterrupted record of gainful (painful?) employment which must be enough to satisfy all but the most pedantic slavemasters.

    We are not serfs.


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