Neha Sharma ·
On employment gaps: state them plainly, in one line, and move on
Caregiving, study, illness, redundancy, a business that did not work - all of these are ordinary. A short factual note closes the question. An unexplained eighteen-month hole invites the reader to invent a worse story than the real one.
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