How to Deal with Long-Term Unemployment, with Sonal Bahl
Find Your Dream Job: Insider Tips for Finding Work, Advancing your Career, and Loving Your Job
Mac Prichard
4.8 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Life is unpredictable, and sometimes that includes long-term absences from the workforce but a long-term absence doesn’t have to hold you back. How do you explain an absence to a hiring manager? You start by addressing the issue upfront, according to Find Your Dream Job guest Sonal Bahl. Don’t leave the question open for the hiring manager to try to figure out. Sonal also shares how to present your experiences during your absence as building your skillset, and how to confidently lead the interview conversation.
About Our Guest:Sonal Bahl (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonalbahl/) is a career strategist and founder of Supercharge (https://www.superchargeyourself.com/). It’s a career advisory firm with clients across the globe. She’s also the host of the How I Got Hired podcast. (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-i-got-hired/id1536817985)
Resources in This Episode:- If you’re ready for personalized help in your job search, learn more about working with Sonal on her website at www.superchargeyourself.com/.
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| 1:01.1 | That's PLA-U-D. This is Find Your Dream Job, the podcast that helps you get hired, have the career you want, and make a difference in life. |
| 1:21.8 | 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. |
| 1:30.8 | Every Wednesday, I talk to a different expert about the tools you need to get the work you want. |
| 1:36.7 | Looking for work is hard, and it makes you vulnerable too. |
| 1:41.1 | Scammers take advantage of this vulnerability by posing as recruiters to extract money or |
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