Go from Embarrassed to Confident When Explaining Your Career Gap

When a recruiter asks, "How long have you been off work?" how do you feel?
Ashamed? Defensive? Desperate? Angry?

If you want to feel confident instead, download this free worksheet to help you frame your time off work in a positive light.

Avoid going into fight or flight and giving garbled answers by writing getting some scripts ready in advance.

It will make your job search much less stressful.

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Wendy Scott

Learning and Development/HR Professional

I'm Wendy Scott and I've worked in HR teams for decades.

I also write Learning and Development Rocks, a weekly deep dive into anything connected to career development, leadership and creating courses.

Identify training, industry upskilling and other projects that will impress recruiters
Create a 60-second statement that you can say to recruiters when they ask about your career gap
Prepare some short statements to answer specific recruiter questions