Job app-How do I list my home healthcare for family member?

In My Humble Opinion
1

I am applying for a job after 7 months of being a caregiver for a family member.

How do I put that on a job application? Do I leave the time unnoted, and let the interviewer ask me? Do I put down “self-employed; home heath care,” or what?

Thanks,
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2

I’d leave it blank on the resume, then figure out some way to work it into the cover letter as explanation.

3

Just put “full-time caregiver”.

Good luck with the job.

Regards,
Shodan

4

I agree. I moved across country and was unemployed for several months to help care for my mom, and never put it on my resume.

I moved in November of 1992, and my first resume said I worked at X place “1989-1992”. I didn’t specify months. When I got interviewed the questions were about why I relocated, not about why there was a time gap. But it wouldn’t have mattered, I don’t think.

Later updated resumes said “X, 1989-1992”, then “Y, 1993-1999”, etc. No one cared enough to try getting me to account for my employment month by month.

5

Thirded. It’s not job experience, so leave it off the resume, but use the cover letter to explain.