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Gap in CV, what to put?

  • 07-11-2017 5:07pm
    #1
    January
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    I am now looking for a job after 8 years of being a stay at home parent.

    How do I explain this gap in my CV?


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  • #3
    January
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    I suppose I'm asking how to word it more than anything else! I've done some education work in that time which I'll be putting on the CV but at the moment I'm just looking at retail jobs (hopefully in a pharmacy or something as that is what I'm interested in).


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  • #5
    exaisle
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    Or draw a nice picture? ;-)


  • #6
    PMBC
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    For eight years you were working at one of the most difficult, under-rated, unpaid jobs there is. If you ran a household, brought up children, you can do most things. You managed a budget, managed people, husband and little people, property, good time management skills, school and after school, bringing them etc, so good at logistics. Wait for the interview to tell them that and be straight in the cv.


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  • #7
    Peatys
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    op, be absolutely upfront.

    Eg: 2010-2017: Career break/stay at home parent.



    Nothing more needed. You can go into detail at the interview.


  • #8
    _Brian
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    PUt down the education you did and anything else you think relevant.
    Don’t shy away from saying you were a stay at home parent.
    In interviews talk about it positively and confidently, be proud you were able to do this and some training too.

    Particularly for retail positions this won’t be a serious issue.


  • #9
    January
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    Thanks for all the advice guys!


  • #10
    JustAThought
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    January wrote: »
    Thanks for all the advice guys!

    Good luck with it! Personally from a hiring perspective I would not say stay at home mom & stick with career break. It will be implied what you did but you do not want to give employers an excuse not to hire you. Though they cannot ask the issue of someone having to duck out or being unavailable because of child care issues, child sickness, parent teacher meetings etc is still an impediment to being chosen above those with no restrictions on their availability or on their flexibility for working hours.


  • #11
    Birdsong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 989 ✭✭✭Birdsong


    Add in things you may have been involved with, club's, community groups, committee member. All those would work for you.


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