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Assess your skills. Just because you haven't been paid for your work, doesn't mean you've been sitting around doing nothing all day. Chances are you've been responsible for cooking, cleaning, shopping, raising kids, volunteering — in essence, making...
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Assess your skills. Just because you haven't been paid for your work, doesn't mean you've been sitting around doing nothing all day. Chances are you've been responsible for cooking, cleaning, shopping, raising kids, volunteering — in essence, making the trains run on time. Break down those skills and put them on a functional resume, one that focuses on your skills and abilities, not a chronological resume that focuses on work history. Did you run bake sales? Then you know about organizing volunteers, promoting events and selling. Take catch-up courses. Once you know where the obvious gaps are, figure out how you'll fill them. If you're looking to work in an office, but you don't know how to type or you've never used Microsoft Word or Excel, take a class. You can check with your state's unemployment office, displaced homemakers' programs at community colleges or with a local YMCA for free or inexpensive courses. If you worked previously in an industry that you want to get back into, now... See less 
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