Gaps in Employment — Resume Writing

A job seeker emailed me with a question about his career. He had been in the banking industry for about 30 years and reached the high level in that industry.  When he decided he was going to make a career change, so for the following 2 years he explored the areas of securities and also did some personal real estate investing and now he wants to get back into the banking industry and he wants to know from me, how shall he handle that 2 year employment gap on his resume. Here’s what I suggest.

resume writing tips


Use the chronological resume and for the first entry under experience section put the date of the last 2 years and for the job title place something like financial management and professional development. Then under that put 2 or 3 or may be two bullet points. One that speaks about your studies, your independent studies and the securities area and at the second bullet point discusses your financial management with regard  to your real estate investing now when you write about this activities be sure to consider how they are relevant, how they will strengthen your position as you would be in your new job objective.



Keeping it relevant always and making it of interest to your next employer. So now what we have is not a division away from your backing industry but rather a time away in which you strengthened your banking experience.

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