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

Tue Sep 24 17:34:07 UTC 2013

Don't forget with SSI anything over $65 they take away $1 for every $2 you
earn. Not counting blind work expenes.

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Misty Dawn Bradley <mistydbradley at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hi Suzanne,
> I have applied for financial aid and also receive SSI, but it is still
> difficult for more than one person to live on SSI, and it makes it
> difficult to qualify for apartments and even afford a decent apartment or
> even any of the cheapest apartments, and cosigners are hard to come by
> also. If I had a job, I would have enough for my daughter and I to live on
> as well as enough to hopefully qualify for an apartment without a cosigner
> and be able to afford the rent, as a majority of my income now goes toward
> the rent each month, and applying for housing has turned out to be a long
> waiting process.
> It may be better not to work, but I am not able to do a lot of clubs and
> extracurricular activities anyway due to having to be there for my daughter
> after school, so although I have tried to be as active as I can, I haven't
> really been able to do anything outside of my classes anyway, and child
> care is expensive, so I can't just pay someone to watch her while I do
> extracurricular activities, clubs, volunteering, etc. while I possibly
> could afford paying for after school care if I worked an actual job so that
> I would be able to work full time.
> I hope this helps to clarify things a little.
> Thank you for your suggestions.
> Misty
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Suzanne Germano
> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 11:30 AM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Dealing With Gaps In Resumes and Having Little to No
> Work Experience
>
> 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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