I had a client ask me, «I have a 3 +
year gap on my resume where I left a stable, awesome Corporate America job to pursue freelance work and to research starting my own business.
With being out of the professional workforce, what is the best way to handle an interview with that 4 -
year gap on my resume?
The oldest had just turned 5 and the other was about to turn 2... However now I have this 2
year gap on my resume and it appears to employers as someone that nobody wants to hire.
«He was really embarrassed to admit
a year gap on his resume,» says Maya Howe, an assistant director of admissions who did his interview.
Not exact matches
To get Lulu back
on track, experts believe, Potdevin needs to repair a brand tarnished by last
year's see - through yoga - pants disaster, fend off new competition from well - heeled rivals
Gap, Nike and UnderArmour, and keep growing fast enough to mollify the suddenly dyspeptic public markets.
It was nudging up at 2.96 percent
on Tuesday, which also left the
gap between U.S. and German 10 -
year benchmark bond yields just off its widest level in nearly three decades.
According to the World Economic Forum, two thirds of OECD countries have introduced policies
on pay equality, including requiring some employers to publish calculations every
year showing the gender pay
gap.
Saujani, whose six -
year - old organization is tackling the gender
gap in tech by training young girls in computer science, encouraged the nation's business leaders to double down
on the effort in a wide - ranging panel discussion
on attracting and retaining diverse talent.
Even when comparing the sexes with the same job title at the same company and using similar education and experience, the gender pay
gap persists across the board: Men earned 2.4 percent more than women
on average, down slightly from last
year, according to a study by salary - tracking website PayScale.
Based
on today's
gap, the National Women's Law Center reports that the average women would lose $ 418,800 over the course of a 40 -
year career.
«While March proved challenging, we remain focused
on taking the necessary steps to improve results across the portfolio throughout the
year,»
Gap CFO Sabrina Simmons said.
She is also a formidable voice for women's empowerment in Turkey, a nation with one of the worst gender
gaps in the workplace; the university founded and chaired by Sabancı made headlines last
year when it published a report
on the impact of domestic violence against white - collar working women in Turkey.
A new study by the American Association of University Women sheds some light
on the gender wage
gap by examining the earnings of men and women one
year post-graduation.
While Bush's business - themed policy proposals will likely offer a mixture of traditionally Republican tax cuts and so - called trickle down economics, he's likely to define his views
on how to support the middle class, lift up the lowest wage workers, and close the income
gap, which would continue
on the themes he started talking about earlier this
year.
Netflix itself finished its transition to AWS servers last
year, and has made a practice of filling
gaps in those services with its own software, which is available
on Github, a sort of library for freely available software.
BRUSSELS, May 2 - The European Commission proposed a bigger new multi-
year budget
on Wednesday that will trigger battles among member states over how to fill the funding
gap left by Britain's exit next
year.
BRUSSELS, May 2 - The European Commission announced
on Wednesday proposals for a new multi-
year budget that is expected to see EU countries squabble among themselves over how to fill the funding
gap left by Britain's exit next
year.
But
Gap's growth in this arena casts a dark shadow over Vancouver - based Lululemon Athletica, which has become the authority
on fashionable yoga gear, and boasted a 28 % increase in sales over the last fiscal
year.
A
year on, annual economic growth has picked up — closing the
gap with Germany and pulling away from other major European powers such as Britain and Italy.
BRUSSELS, May 2 - The European Commission met
on Wednesday to agree proposals for a bigger new multi-
year budget that will trigger battles among member states over how to fill the funding
gap left by Britain's exit next
year.
For Craig Buckstein, COO and partner of Geneva Worldwide, a 106 -
year - old company in New York and No. 2757
on the Inc. 5000, helping clients bridge the communication
gap in person, over the phone or through documents is the reason his company is so successful.
«The price
gap is likely to remain substantial in the next two to three
years,» the report said, «and assuming it does, Chinese spending
on luxury goods will grow about as fast overseas as it will domestically.»
Tarun has worked in health for 30
years, focusing
on public health research, policy and practice in the prevention of common chronic diseases and addressing Aboriginal health
gaps.
The Conservatives program review this
year will close the
gap in expected revenue and spending growth somewhat but will still depend
on rather dramatic growth rates in tax revenues.
That
year Enbridge Inc. reversed the flow
on an old line it had acquired to bring oil from the Midwest to Cushing — a roundabout solution, but it worked, immediately shrinking the price
gap between «Edmonton par» and WTI from more than US$ 10 a barrel to mere pennies.
But nine
years ago, the
Gap — a retailer that relies
on millions of them — took note.
U.S. sprinters Anthony Ervin and Nathan Adrian put a capstone
on the night by winning gold and bronze, respectively, in the 50m freestyle — a remarkable 16 -
year -
gap for Ervin between his last gold in the same event in 2004.
If these shallow pools existed at least 700 million
years earlier — or when the oceans of Mars began to evaporate — they may have bridged a crucial
gap for microbial life
on the planet.
Tiffany has been with the SSE for three
years, and worked
on the launch of its campaign to «close the
gap on ESG reporting» within which the SSE asked all stock exchanges to commit to providing written guidance to listed companies
on reporting ESG information.
Additional clinical trial data later this
year on Tesaro's key drug, Niraparib, which targets advanced solid tumors in ovarian and breast cancers, could help narrow the valuation
gap, the people said.
Startups including Bird, founded by former Lyft - then - Uber executive Travis VanderZanden, LimeBike, and Spin, have been dumping internet - connected scooters
on city streets over the last
year, ostensibly in an effort to fill the
gaps in municipal transit.
The difference between the 10 -
year and 2 -
year Treasury rates narrowed to 47 44 basis points
on Monday (April 16)-- the smallest
gap since late - 2007.
RBC poll reveals
gap in students» expectations
on key life moments Having it all five
years after graduation?
And over the last three
years, Total has slowly but surely closed the
gap on rival oil major Esso (from 10 points behind in March 2009 to effectively level now).
That's still well short of the $ 7.5 billion to $ 8 billion Netflix expects to spend
on content this
year, but it's quickly closing the
gap.
Hogg, who has been accepted to the University of California at Irvine, also said that he was «90 percent sure» that he would delay enrolling in college until fall 2019 and use the
gap year to focus
on this
year's midterm elections.
The consensus forecast calls for EPS at Urban Outfitters to be the same as in the
year - ago period, while EPS at Deere, Dick's Sporting Goods,
Gap, Staples and Wal - Mart will be smaller than a
year ago, if analysts» expectations are
on target.
The
gap between the 2 -
year and 10 -
year Treasury notes, often considered the heart of the yield curve, held at 46.8 basis points
on Thursday.
The report added that because of this investment
gap, «American businesses pay $ 27 billion a
year in extra freight transportation costs, increasing shipping delays and raising prices
on everyday products.»
Morningstar found 14 loans
on properties where
Gap occupies more than 80 percent of the space
on a lease that expires within the next two
years, which could put landlords and the investors in those loans at risk if the company decides to close more stores.
Coworkly, a side project that's currently dominating the majority of Arar's time, arose from a desire to fill a
gap he's seen in Ottawa for many
years now — namely, a community of startups that focus
on venture capital and raising money rather than returning to the basics of bootstrapping and profitability.
-- «The
year -
on -
year rate of change in the CPI (all items less fresh food) is likely to continue
on an uptrend and increase toward 2.0 %, due mainly to an improvement in the output
gap and a rise in medium - to - long term inflation expectations.»
For those who haven't had the time to read the legaled - up language of every single privacy policy we encounter (which, considering Carnegie Mellon researchers estimated it would take the average user the equivalent of 76 work days per
year to do, is most of us), and even for people like me who do it for a living and still find disclosure
gaps, the Facebook — Cambridge Analytica scandal managed to shed a bit of light
on the otherwise obscure relationships between some tech companies and advertisers.
2) May I remind you that this God of the
Gaps has been steadily
on the retreat in the last few thousand
years and especially in the last couple of hundred
years.
I'm talking about Catholic street evangelisation, something I came across three
years ago
on a postgraduate
gap year and which I've been doing ever since.
The seven -
year study was designed to «fill the
gap» left by the United States census (no questions
on religion), the self - reporting of denominations («widely differing criteria»), and smaller surveys (too few questions or people).
It is smaller than the
gap discernible in the 1920s, and only slightly larger than those for the «40s and «50s (see Yearbook of Amen can and Canadian Churches for the
years 1920 - 1984)(I have made these calculations without including one denomination
on the Carroll graph — the Lutheran Church in America — whose antecedents in earlier decades are too complex for reliable figuring.
One frequently cited bar graph has been used to suggest, for the decade 1965 - 75, a severe diminution of seven mainline Protestant bodies by contrast both with their gains in the preceding ten
years and with the continuing growth of selected conservative churches (see Jackson W. Carroll et al., Religion in America, 1950 to the Present [Harper & Row, 19791, p. 15) The
gap in growth rates for 1965 - 75, as shown
on that graph, is more than 29 percentage points (an average loss in the oldline denominations of 8.9 per cent against average gains among the conservatives of 20.5 per cent) This is indeed a substantial difference, but it does not approach the difference in growth rates recorded for the same religious groups in the 1930s, when the discrepancy amounted to 62 percentage points.
All the time these things were going
on, the
gap between the average white income and the average black income in this nation continued to widen, while the white population says such things as, «We have made significant progress in race relations in the last ten
years.»
1) The people, including Father Greeley, who incessantly lament the
gap between teaching and the reception of teaching are typically the same people who have for
years worked to undermine the credibility of the Church's teaching office; 2) Their measure of whether the Church is listening is whether teaching is brought into line with their preferences; 3) The curia in Rome coordinates and corrects as necessary, but the teachers of the Church are the bishops, priests and catechists who too often find it easier to blame Rome than to do their job; 4) Catholic Americans are about 6 percent of the universal Church, and Greeley's think - for - themselves educated Catholics who are unhappy with church teaching, usually
on matters sexual, are a much smaller part of that 6 percent.