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team_hiration13 karma

Hi!

Thanks for reaching out! 1st things 1st - 7 years might seem like a lot of time to some - but then we are happy to share some tips and tricks to help you overcome this gap. Just make the following changes to your resume apart from some other things, go out there and be welcomed back into the professional world!:

  1. Try to highlight the skills you have gained in the past 7 years which will be relevant to your targeted profile. This will be a time taking task since you'll need to first create a list everything that you have done in the past 7 years and then filter it to extract information.

  2. Have a solid covering letter and introductory email justifying your reasons for such a long hiatus. Basically, you need to convince the employer here that your motivation is still there and you're willing to work hard to reenter the industry. Also, this would be a good place to exhibit your skills that you have gained over the past 7 years

  3. You should start taking courses relevant to your targeted profile. This will be a great way to show a potential recruiter/employer that you are willing to learn and adapt to the constantly changing environment. This will also be a great way to polish your skills. Moreover, these will add a lot of value to your Resume as well as Online professional profiles (LinkedIn/Personal Website/etc.) since most online /offline course these days offer Certificates.

Hope that is helpful. All the best!

team_hiration11 karma

haha! that's a guesstimate question - management consulting fan here? off topic but well, let's give it a shot - the diameter of a tennis ball is around 3 inches (for the sake of simplicity; 2.7 to be precise). Volume of each ball: 4/3 pie r3 i.e. 14.14 inch cube or 15 for the sake of simplicity Now the best spherical packing efficiency is hexagonal closed packed i.e. 74% space is filled. Now volume of the room in which we are sitting: roughly 20 ft * 20 ft * 15 ft = 10.3 million inch cube. Hence, no of tennis balls that can be fit in this room = 0.74 * 10.3 million / 15 = ~508k enjoy!

team_hiration10 karma

Hi!

Thanks for your question as a lot of redditors would be in a similar situation! Happy to resolve this early on itself.

A lot of people would suggest you to mask this information by using a functional resume (basically a skill based resume in a non-chronological order) or modifying the structure of the resume. This can be one of the options, but in our experience, it might lead to trouble with potential recruiters/employers if they discover this later on.

As per us, the best is to be upfront about this to your employer (maybe in your cover letter or over email exchange). This way, you demonstrate integrity & honesty as your core values which might offset the effect of the Gap year. Also, you would have the opportunity to describe genuine reasons for the gap year in your cover letter (that's why a cover letter becomes so important!).

In the end, it depends on how comfortable your employer is with the gap in your work-ex and your ability to justify it.

Don't let a 1 year gap be a deterrent. Just build a great resume and an even better cover letter/email, apply your heart out and kill it! All the very best!

team_hiration9 karma

haha! great one indeed!

well yea.. we are in this industry because we really like to help people with their careers and helping them out with their resumes. We saw that a lot of people couldn't live up to their potential because they couldn't market themselves well - we wanted to change that. So voila.

Honestly, we love every part of what we are doing. But our process involves us asking a lot of questions from our clients' resumes. At times, they take a lot of time to get back with the info. We are all pepped up and ready to rewrite the resumes - but we don't get the info on time. And that's what we don't like - writing sub par resumes or deliverables that go out late!

team_hiration8 karma

We do! we will be happy to help. We've already worked with more than 1,500 professionals across a gamut of industries and professions. Apart from that, the process that we follow includes getting a detailed understanding of the jobs that you want to apply to. After that, we do our own research on the kind of skills that are required for someone to be successful in this job - by an extensive research process - both online & offline. This essentially helps us understand the recruiter's view point. Once you club that with our existing expertise and experience, you are ready to get a new resume written for virtually any profession in the world. So, yes - will be happy to help!