Four Ways to Talk About Gaps in Your LinkedIn Profile, with Katie Fogarty

Find Your Dream Job: Insider Tips for Finding Work, Advancing your Career, and Loving Your Job

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Careers, Business

4.8 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Career gaps are an inevitable fact of life. Whether it’s a voluntary gap to take care of children, or an involuntary gap because you were fired or laid off, you must be ready to explain those gaps to a hiring manager who will see them on your LinkedIn profile. It’s important, says Find Your Dream Job guest Katie Fogarty, to clarify what you were doing with your time and that the gap is now over. Use your LinkedIn profile to highlight your skills and focus on the value you offer, and don’t apologize for your gaps. About Our Guest: Katie Fogarty (https://www.linkedin.com/in/katiefogartymedia) is a 20-year veteran of media, branding, and PR. She launched The Reboot Group to deliver custom coaching engagements, workshops, and trainings that unlock clients' abilities to advocate for their work and value on LinkedIn and beyond. Resources in This Episode: If you’re ready to craft a LinkedIn headline that gets noticed, Katie can help. Visit her website at therebootgroup.com. (https://www.therebootgroup.com/) Be sure to catch Katie in her new book, Comeback Careers: Rethink, Refresh, Reinvent Your Career - At 40, 50, and Beyond. (https://www.amazon.com/Comeback-Careers-Stronger-Wiser-Better/dp/1602865906/). Nail every behavioral interview question in your next interview by learning how to prepare for them. Download 100 Behavioral Interview Questions You Need to Know. (http://www.macslist.org/questions). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:06.5	This is Find Your Dream Job, the podcast that helps you get hired, have the career you want, and make a difference in life.
1:19.6	I'm your host, Mack Pritchard. I'm also the founder of Max List. It's a job board in the Pacific Northwest that helps you find a fulfilling career.
1:28.3	Every Wednesday, I talk to a different expert about the tools you need to find the work you want.
1:34.0	You'll likely have one or two gaps in your career.
1:36.7	Perhaps you got laid off, chose to start a family, or took a break between jobs.
1:42.0	What should you say about these kinds of gaps on your LinkedIn profile?
1:45.7	Here to talk about this is Katie Fogarty. Katie owns the reboot group. She helps job seekers
1:50.9	and companies tell better career and brand stories. She joins us today from Long Island, New York.
1:57.0	Well, Katie, here's where I want to start. Why should listeners talk about gaps on a LinkedIn profile at all?
2:03.0	Why not just wait for an employer to ask?
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