Reframe an Employment Gap on Your CV

There is a fourteen month gap on your CV and the draft explanation you have keeps sliding into apology. This turns the honest facts of what happened into two versions, a short CV line and a slightly longer interview answer, both factual, both confident, neither of them sounding like an excuse for existing.

Rewrite the description of the employment gap below so it reads as a deliberate, credible part of your career story rather than something to apologise for or hide. Keep it factual: do not invent activities or skills that were not genuinely part of the gap. Where the gap involved caring responsibilities, health, redundancy, or a career break, name the reason plainly if the person is comfortable including it, or keep it general if not. Produce two versions: one short line suitable for a CV, and one slightly longer version suitable for an interview answer if asked directly about the gap.

Gap details and what happened during it: [paste your notes here]