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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Please do not submit a resume with a 10+ year gap and then tell me in your cover letter that you were off rearing children."

Huh?  I was a SAHM for eleven years and then went back to work, and obviously I explained that the gap was because I was home with my children--good grief, what else would explain a gap that large?!  Do I want them to think I was vacationing for eleven years?  In prison?  In outer space?  You get the picture.  Obviously, then I went on to discuss how I was a good fit for the job (which they must have agreed with, since I was hired), but not to mention it in passing is just absurd.  ("Although I have been home with my children for a number of years, I am now eager to return to the workforce, etc., etc.")

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Why even mention it at all? Wasn't that covered in your application materials?  If you brought it up, it would be fair game for me to ask you if you had childcare in place, understood that occasionally the job required hours outside the normal working day.  Are you going to explain why after 11 years off, you are suddenly eager to return to paid work, for reasons other than $$?[/quote]

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