Wifes CV - detail to add after a career break
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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?
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?
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.
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.
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! 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.
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