{"id":1780,"date":"2019-03-14T12:50:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T17:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanfordrose.com\/kempfgroup\/shawn-tolan-managing-director-of-sanford-rose-associates-the-tolan-group-featured-in-fast-company\/"},"modified":"2019-03-14T12:50:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T17:50:52","slug":"shawn-tolan-managing-director-of-sanford-rose-associates-the-tolan-group-featured-in-fast-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanfordrose.com\/kempfgroup\/shawn-tolan-managing-director-of-sanford-rose-associates-the-tolan-group-featured-in-fast-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Shawn Tolan, Managing Director of Sanford Rose Associates\u00ae &#8211; The Tolan Group, Featured in Fast Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shawn Tolan, Managing Director of Sanford Rose Associates\u00ae &#8211; The Tolan Group, Featured in Fast Company, How to Explain an Employment Gap on Your Resume<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By: Stephanie Vozza<\/p>\n<p>Plano, TX | 3\/14\/2019<\/p>\n<p>Whether you took time off to care for a child or aging parent, or you were laid off and are having a hard time finding another job, gaps in a resume happen. Sharing them with a potential employer, however, can feel awkward. How do you put a positive spin on a one-, four-, or even 12-month period of time when you weren\u2019t working?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGaps in resumes are not as uncommon as one might think; there are a number of plausible reasons for a job loss that have nothing to do with performance,\u201d says <a href=\"http:\/\/sanfordrose.com\/thetolangroup\/about-us\/leadership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shawn Tolan<\/a>, managing director of <a href=\"http:\/\/sanfordrose.com\/thetolangroup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Tolan Group<\/a>, an executive search firm.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90313701\/how-to-explain-an-employment-gap-on-your-resume?partner=rss&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&amp;utm_content=rss?cid=search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90313701\/how-to-explain-an-employment-gap-on-your-resume?partner=rss&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&amp;utm_content=rss?cid=search<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Shawn Tolan, Managing Director of Sanford Rose Associates\u00ae &#8211; The Tolan Group, Featured in Fast Company, How to Explain an Employment Gap on Your Resume By: Stephanie Vozza Plano, TX | 3\/14\/2019 Whether you took time off to care for a child or aging parent, or you were laid off and are having a hard time finding another job, gaps in a resume happen. Sharing them with a potential employer, however, can feel awkward. How do you put a positive spin on a one-, four-, or even 12-month period of time when you weren\u2019t working? \u201cGaps in resumes are not as uncommon as one might think; there are a number of plausible reasons for a job loss that have nothing to do with performance,\u201d says Shawn Tolan, managing director of The Tolan Group, an executive search firm. Read more: https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90313701\/how-to-explain-an-employment-gap-on-your-resume?partner=rss&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&amp;utm_content=rss?cid=search<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[89,301,565,650,166,158,302],"class_list":["post-1780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sra-news","tag-sanford-rose-associates","tag-sanford-rose-associates-tolan-group","tag-shawn-tolan","tag-shawn-tolan-in-the-news","tag-sra","tag-sra-in-the-news","tag-the-tolan-group"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Shawn Tolan, Managing Director of Sanford Rose Associates\u00ae - The Tolan Group, Featured in Fast Company - Sanford Rose Associates\u00ae - Kempf Group<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sanfordrose.com\/kempfgroup\/shawn-tolan-managing-director-of-sanford-rose-associates-the-tolan-group-featured-in-fast-company\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sanford Rose Associates\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sanfordrose.com\\\/kempfgroup\\\/shawn-tolan-managing-director-of-sanford-rose-associates-the-tolan-group-featured-in-fast-company\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sanfordrose.com\\\/kempfgroup\\\/shawn-tolan-managing-director-of-sanford-rose-associates-the-tolan-group-featured-in-fast-company\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sanford Rose Associates\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sanfordrose.com\\\/kempfgroup\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/e9bae55b203487fb69cc3d521503341d\"},\"headline\":\"Shawn Tolan, Managing Director of Sanford Rose Associates\u00ae &#8211; 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