07/09/2026
A career gap doesn't need a paragraph of justification.
The instinct is to over-explain it, soften it, apologise for it. But the more you explain, the bigger it looks. The truth is simpler than that.
Name it briefly. Frame what you did or learned. Pivot to what's next.
That's it. That's the whole answer.
Your career gap is a sentence, not a confession.