What can I do about gaps in employment?
There isn’t much you can do about your work chronology, what’s done is done. However, there are a few ways to present your work history so that the gaps are less apparent:
Consider including only years worked (rather than months [...]
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What really does not change in the world is the need for change. It is this bug in you or the environment around you which is constantly after you for a change. If one changes her career 3-4 times in her life time, that much she needs to carefully manage her career change. Mind you, [...]
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It is one of life’s supreme ironies - no sooner have we arrived at the place we aimed for back in our 20s, we start to feel like it is all wrong! In our 30s to 40s our apparently solid ground can shift, leaving a void. Issues arising at this time can feel intractable and [...]
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Advising others to change career sounds very simple and a workable proposition. When it comes to us, it becomes one of the toughest decisions to implement. A career change needs lot of mental preparation. If you have a family, that may get disrupted by your career change. The income may stop for some time. The [...]
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When drafting your resume, it is easy to fall into the habit of focusing on the past. After all, much of your resume will consist of a list of things you’ve donefrom positions you’ve held to special awards you’ve received to degrees you’ve attained. A resume is, in fact, a compilation of your professional [...]
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A forty year-old client sits in her therapist’s office clutching her backpack to her chest. It would be a therapeutic truism to propose that she holds it there, as a "barricade" between herself and this strange therapist… but therapeutic interaction is subtler and more layered than that. She may just as well be placing it [...]
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