100% agree. Naming the gap and crafting the story of what you did during that time for the resume reviewer is much more beneficial than just leaving a blank and letting people fill it in with their own bias.
Thank you for sharing Su, this is very real and I really felt this. Twenty years is such a long time, and yet “gap” makes it sound like nothing was happening.
It really is so strange that an entire life can get reduced to a blank space on a CV...
You were living, raising a family, becoming different versions of yourself and somehow the language we use for careers calls that a “gap.”
This really adds depth to the perspective. Thank you for sharing this here. 💕
100% agree. Naming the gap and crafting the story of what you did during that time for the resume reviewer is much more beneficial than just leaving a blank and letting people fill it in with their own bias.
My gap is twenty years.
I spent them as a wife, as a mother.
Twenty years on paper — but my life was never actually paused.
It's just that, to the outside world, I might as well not have existed.
Thank you for sharing Su, this is very real and I really felt this. Twenty years is such a long time, and yet “gap” makes it sound like nothing was happening.
It really is so strange that an entire life can get reduced to a blank space on a CV...
You were living, raising a family, becoming different versions of yourself and somehow the language we use for careers calls that a “gap.”
This really adds depth to the perspective. Thank you for sharing this here. 💕