Wifes CV - detail to add after a career break

Wifes CV - detail to add after a career break

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badgerade

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656 posts

197 months

Wednesday 30th September 2015
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Hi all. Quick bit of advice needed.

Prior to the birth of our son 7 years ago, my wife was a Service Manager for a telecoms company. Our first two kids were with childminders, but she wanted to do things differently for the third (and final!) child so decided to leave her job and qualify as a childminder herself, as well as teaching antenatal classes on behalf of the NCT.

Now our son is a bit older, she is looking to get back into her previous area but is having a few CV issues.

One of the main questions is, how does she fill in the gap in her employment history?

She's keen to leave off the childminding/NCT work altogether as she sees it as irrelevant, but this leaves 7 years of what looks like unemployment.

Any ideas from the wise?

thismonkeyhere

10,296 posts

230 months

Wednesday 30th September 2015
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Why viewing the childminder and NCT stuff as irrelevant?

It all should be on there, imo, and it all adds colour to the picture of her as a person and her skillsets and experience.

She is hardly the first woman to go through this, and nothing in the above, or any other aspect of the career break, will detract from her employability. All just my 2p, natch, but I review a fair few CVs.

BoRED S2upid

19,641 posts

239 months

Wednesday 30th September 2015
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thismonkeyhere said:
Why viewing the childminder and NCT stuff as irrelevant?

It all should be on there, imo, and it all adds colour to the picture of her as a person and her skillsets and experience.

She is hardly the first woman to go through this, and nothing in the above, or any other aspect of the career break, will detract from her employability. All just my 2p, natch, but I review a fair few CVs.
I'd agree with this. She could have sat back let you provide and look after the kids like millions of others but no she retrained and became self employed while still being a house wife. Did she look after other kids as well as your own? I presume she did otherwise why become a childminder. If she did then this has huge responsibility your looking after someone's most treasured possession ever you can't make major mistakes in that line of work!

hornetrider

63,161 posts

204 months

Wednesday 30th September 2015
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Agree with the above, it's not a negative.

edc

9,231 posts

250 months

Wednesday 30th September 2015
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There are a lot of positives from that experience. It shows a level of determination, a desire to do things professionally by obtaining recognisable qualifications, organisational skills if it turned into a small business.

rog007

5,748 posts

223 months

Wednesday 30th September 2015
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As said previously, it's not a gap per se; she was doing stuff. She needs to explain that period honestly and where she studied and gained new qualifications then these should appear.

badgerade

Original Poster:

656 posts

197 months

Wednesday 30th September 2015
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Thanks all, really useful replies and they pretty much back up what I had been trying to tell her smile

ChasW

2,135 posts

201 months

Friday 2nd October 2015
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Ditto. As an employer I would have seen nothing negative or unusual about the career break.