Rachel Feintzeig
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1,709 appearances
29 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2019
last heard Nov 2024
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So I think all of that just kind of changed the perception around these kind of career pauses.
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That's a good question.
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My predecessor, Sue Schellenberger, who wrote this column before I did, wrote a piece in 2019 that kind of made the point that career gaps, that the stigma around them was fading.
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So I think we were already starting to see a shift.
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And when I talked to recruiters today, they said that right now people have about a two-year window.
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So even if you stopped working before COVID hit, there's kind of a recognition that it might not have been the easiest thing to get a job over the last decade.
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you know, year or 16 months because so many companies were not hiring during the worst of the pandemic.
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It's a good question.
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I mean, I think it really varies from employer to employer.
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I mean, I did hear from a lot of people like, you don't need to tell your entire life story.
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People want to hear about your skills, what you can do for them.
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If you've been on a break, you know, do things like...
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get new certifications that might make you um more kind of desirable to employers but i think there also is a sense from employees that they want to be open about that this stuff that they don't feel ashamed for prioritizing family or safety from the virus um as they think about what's happened to them over the last year or so so i think we are just seeing a lot of employees being more open to speaking about things you know when you're in the office everything from
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mental health to fertility issues I've written about.
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And now this kind of concept of parenting and your responsibilities there may be coming into the interview process a little bit more.
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I mean, the advice I really hear from people is just less is more.
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You don't need to apologize, you know, for, let's say, if you took a break for caregiving, but you kind of just say it confidently and
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And don't get into too much detail.
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And then you move on.
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That's kind of the overall advice.
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