Timeline for How to present (in cover letter/interviews etc) a 7-year gap in employment up to today because I didn't need to work? Circumstances changed
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| Jul 23, 2019 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackWorkplace/status/1153681330238087170 | ||
| Jul 18, 2019 at 22:45 | comment | added | P. Hopkinson | Have you considered homecare? Either in a care home or domiciliary home care (visiting vulnerable adults in their own home). Lots of parents become home carers so a career break wouldn't even be too unusual. If you have a clean criminal record and at least semi-respectable appearance then it can be very easy to find this kind of work, regardless of background. It is hard work and poorly rewarded but so is factory work. | |
| Jul 18, 2019 at 22:19 | answer | added | Joe Strazzere | timeline score: 13 | |
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| Jul 18, 2019 at 21:39 | comment | added | user107037 | @Upper_Case My question is something like "how to explain the gap", but more like "how to explain that I now need to go back to work even though I don't want to" (with implied questions like: so when you don't need this job anymore will you just leave again?). So it's sort of a hybrid of both, but probably more the first one. | |
| Jul 18, 2019 at 21:34 | comment | added | Upper_Case | That doesn't answer my question. The gap is clearly its own issue, which obviously impacts this question. But, as I said, most people work out of need rather than passion, and have to express enthusiasm for jobs they might prefer not to have to do. Employment gaps exist for all kinds of reasons. What I'm asking is if your core question here is how to explain the gap/returning to work or how to express enthusiasm for work when you'd rather not be working. They're related, and answers exist for both, but they aren't the same question. | |
| Jul 18, 2019 at 21:28 | comment | added | user107037 | @Upper_Case The 'unique' feature of this situation is that the gap wasn't due to (e.g) the depressed employment market, medical issues, caring for a family member with medical issues, time out of the country due to being unable to work because of immigration rules, or whatever. I could have been working all this time, but I hated work, got very stressed out by it and then I didn't need to any more and could afford to "take it easy"! My focus is how to present "now I need a job because economic necessity" though I was maybe a 'bum' before. | |
| Jul 18, 2019 at 21:21 | comment | added | Upper_Case | Outside of the specifics of the 7-year gap, do you think that there are unique features of your situation that impact answering interview-style questions? There exists advice for expressing interest in a potential job, but the truth is that most people don't work because they're so passionate about some field but rather because they have to-- very much like yourself now. Is the focus of your question the gap, specifically, or expressing enthusiasm and motivation you don't necessarily feel about potential jobs? | |
| Jul 18, 2019 at 21:19 | answer | added | dbeer | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jul 18, 2019 at 21:18 | history | edited | DarkCygnus♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Cut down some unnecessary details from post. Could still use some more trimming and focusing
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| Jul 18, 2019 at 21:09 | history | edited | user107037 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 18, 2019 at 21:06 | history | asked | user107037 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |