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How to Explain a Career Break for Mental Health on Your Resume
In this episode of The Resume Room, Lucas and Luna tackle a sensitive but increasingly common resume challenge: explaining a career break for mental health reasons. Should you disclose it directly or reframe it as a sabbatical? They examine the 'functional resume' strategy used by a Google product manager who took 14 months off for burnout recovery and returned to a senior role at Stripe. Lucas breaks down the three-sentence framework for the cover letter, the 'skills-forward' bullet point rewrite, and why a 2025 Harvard Business Review study found that candidates who…
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