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How To Handle Resume Gaps and Blemishes - ProFellow
How To Handle Resume Gaps and Blemishes - ProFellow
How To Handle Resume Gaps and Blemishes - ProFellow
By Brittany Mihalec-Adkins
Are you applying for a fellowship and stressing about a glaring blemish or gap on your resume or transcript? Here are five simple strategies to
address weaknesses in your fellowship application package and keep you in the competition.
What NOT to do: “This professor is notoriously di icult; over 60% of students failed, including myself.”
Better: “During my final semester of college, I found myself unable to juggle my full course load due to ___.”
Show what you’ve done to correct it.
If you failed a class, you probably had to retake it – right? Take a few sentences to explain how you approached the class di erently the second
time. Maybe you cut back on other obligations so that you could spend more time studying. Maybe you went to o ice hours every week and
met with the professor between lectures and before exams. Maybe you ended up taking an extra class in the same department, just to make
sure you knew your stu before graduation. Showing reviewers that you can not only acknowledge mistakes but e ectively troubleshoot will
do wonders for addressing any concerns they may have.
Brittany Mihalec-Adkins is a first-year National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and second-year Ph.D. student in Human
Development and Family Studies at Purdue University.
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