Given how closely the schools learn experience of the candidate, it is important to be proactive in the description of gaps in employment. Many applicants worry during the entrance, as the selection committee will perceive gaps in employment. This is a difficult question, but here we can apply certain strategies and thus to show ourselves best sides.

In principle, there is nothing unusual about the gap in employment, and it does not necessarily have a negative impact on your employment. Gaps can occur because of what you want – both because of economic circumstances, and because of travel, family circumstances, and thousands more reasons. As a rule, only need to explain gaps which are longer than three months, and this can be done either in an additional essay, or in any appropriate form of the questionnaire, if there is such a question. Admissions committee did not need to play detective, comparing fuzzy date CV or large pieces of indescribable time of your life. All it needs to know – what did you do during unemployment, and all you need to do – to show that that time you have been productive. It is important that you are sincere and open in a story about that time, and show that you’re not just sitting idly by waiting for a new job.
Same story on unemployment right now requires a slightly different strategy than the story of your past. A candidate entering the business school, and having no work is much more complex situation because business schools see themselves as accelerators, rather than initiators career. But the task is not impossible and, given the current state of the economy, more and more coming to business school at the moment do not work. Again, they should not avoid talking about it. The main thing – do not give unemployment as a cause of admission to business school, or to say, not looking for work because they want to get ready to enter (this is a serious “red card”).
When you talk about unemployment, show that now you are trying to find a temporary job or do volunteer work. Ideally, demonstrate that your current activity is somehow related to your professional goals – for example, visits to conferences or training in your area of interest. Whatever it was, you have to be honest and look proactive.