How to Explain a Resume Gap
Channel: Ryan McBeth
Date: 2021-05-30

I'm very familiar with resume gaps - I have four of them from back when I was an Infantryman with the Army National Guard.

So there are plenty of reasons why you might have a resume gap - from being called up for reserve duty like me, to having a child, to caring for a family member.

But if you are one of those people who has a resume gap because you had a string of bad luck after losing a job, you can prepare a reason for the gap without oversharing.

Just follow the acronym: TEPIE

This stands for
Trading
Entrepreneurship
Passion Project 
Illness
Education