[nabs-l] Dealing With Gaps In Resumes and Having Little to No Work Experience

[Suzanne Germano]

I have huge gaps in my resume. The most recent is 10 years out of the
workforce. I am back in school now so I worry about the same thing. I
graduated high school in 1982. I start college then but for various reason
never finished. I am now finishing my BS and will graduate in Fall 2015.
During these 10 years I stayed home with my daughter (My fiance worked and
I receive SSDI) I was also fortunate to be able to pursue and passion of
mine and compete nationally as a bodybuilder. So I worry also about big
gaps.

To your questions. I was always on SSI or SSDI while in school.

Now I am trying to get into research and or internships to help my resume.

Did you apply  for financial aid? I was told in a Academic and professional
success class for engineering transfers that it is better to have student
loans than work during school because you can do research, internships, get
involved in clubs and volunteering and all those things employers look for.

There are many people who return to the workplace after choosing to be a
stay home parent so if you just say you chose to be a full-time parent to
you child I don't think they would look down on that.

Suzanne


On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Misty Dawn Bradley <mistydbradley at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I am wondering how people deal with having gaps in their resumes? I have
> heard that many employers judge by whether the applicant has had a steady
> work history. Due to the fact that I had to stay home with my daughter as a
> single mother, I have a gap of about 4 or 5 years in my resume, although I
> have some volunteer work that I did toward the end of it with AmeriCorps
> which I did put on my resume. I am also now in school and have been since
> 2012 working toward my associates in elementary education in order to
> transfer to a university to complete my bachelor degree in education. I am
> trying to apply for jobs to make ends meet while in school, and I am trying
> to figure out how to deal with and account for the gaps in my resume since
> graduating from high school in 2006.
> I am also running into the problem that most of the jobs advertised for
> and geared toward college students are highly visual jobs that require you
> to either drive or do a lot of visual things, such as dealing with
> inventory, organizing it by product number and size/color, and inputting
> data on shipments, etc. Otherwise, all other jobs require a lot of
> experience that I don’t have. How did you list members get around all of
> this, and what types of work did you do to make a living and support
> yourself while attending college? How did you obtain jobs if you had little
> or no experience in low-level jobs such as customer service, office
> administration, retail, and other jobs of this nature? My classes are all
> online, so potentially, I could do part-time or full-time work. I have
> heard of people doing volunteer work to get experience, which I have done
> in the fields of education/tutoring with AmeriCorps, but right now I need a
> job to pay rent, bills, food, and other monthly expenses, so, although
> volunteer work is good, I need something that I can live on as well as
> support my daughter.
> Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> Thank you in advance,
> Misty
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