Article: Honest resumes.(Century marks)(honestly representing unproductive gaps in remsumes)(Brief article)

HONEST RESUMES: Kimberley C. Patton, who teaches comparative religion at Harvard Divinity School, says that students ask her how to account for "missing years" or unproductive gaps in their resumes when applying for graduate programs or jobs in parish ministry. She tells them to be honest about these gaps: "Say, 'I took in a child whose mother was in prison.... I battled an addiction, and I won. My husband was crushed by a boulder that fell in our own backyard, and I ...

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