career gaps
Résumé time holes
Career gaps are periods when someone wasn't employed, appearing as breaks in a work history.
Once viewed with suspicion by employers, attitudes have softened as people increasingly leave the workforce temporarily for caregiving, health issues, education, or personal reasons: How do I explain the career gap on my resume?
Also called employment gaps or résumé gaps.
- unemploymentBeing without paid work
- resumeCareer summary document
- cover letterJob application preface
- hiatusBreak in activity
- sabbaticalExtended leave from work
taking time off · layoff · parenting · stay-at-home parent · caregiving · burnout · reentry · back to work · explanation · interview · job hunting · stigma · freelance · travel · illness · maternity · paternity · downsizing
- Employment Historyresume, CV, work experience, employers, work history
- women's laborworking women, women workers, female workforce, women in STEM, women in leadership
career gapsfull employment
All willing workers employed
employment stability · career progression · job security · permanent employment · job-hopping
career gapscareer progression
Upward movement in work
upward trajectory · career advancement · climbing the ladder · professional growth · promotions
career, careers, careered, careering, careerist, careerists, careerism, gap, gaps