Is this genuinely a good sentence for a cover letter?

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During my career break, I honed my organizational and time-management skills through managing my family's schedule, finances, and household responsibilities.

Been a sahm for a long time. Not very good at applications or interviews. Looking for templates online and came across this.

Tips welcome for changing an academic cv into an office type role - ditch the publications?

I wouldn't use it to be honest.

I think it's better just to say you took a career break to be a sahm.

so sorry but I wouldn’t either ( I got a job after 9 years out so know the slog so best of luck op!)

I wouldn't use it either. In my experience, employers are more interested that your skills are up to date and that you can juggle childcare, etc, and work.

It's rubbish, sorry. I don't think that time out of work adds anything to skills for a CV, it's what all parents do when they're at home. I would just say that "I took a career break to look after my children" more than adequate

No, don’t use that.

It's true! But we're not allowed to respect the skills of motherhood.

Absolutely don't use that.

Get on LinkedIn, connect with some recruiters. they give some great tips out.

That would be fine for the charity I work for. We place a big emphasis on skills gained outside paid employment. We are a very female dominated industry and recruitment is difficult at the moment. Obviously it's only one line and we would need to see the rest. The American spelling of organisational would annoy me more!

Good Lord no! What next, the Family CEO bullshit?

No way should you use anything like that.

That's so culturally specific, isn't it. Brits have to walk a fine line between self-boast & selling selves. You could use that "honed skills" line outside UK, I reckon.

On your other query, I am someone who has dipped out & back into academia:

Write a 50-100 word summary statement at top of your first page about your main skills, things you can do. You could structure this into 2-4 categories (label the categories/themes/topics with keywords that were in advert or often in adverts) of skill areas they want. Get CV down to 2 pages of which the first page should be the real selling points, what they most want to know, like project officer organisation or MS Office or researcher or whatever transferrable skills you can list.

Ditch any work experience before last 2 jobs unless those only lasted < 2 years or one of the earlier jobs was exactly what you're applying for now. Put school qualifications (GCSEs) on back of cv, with repeat details of your references or other random facts like if you hold a driving license. Publications (probably only mention on back page) should be available upon request, otherwise simply say you've "co-written 12 scientific articles" or whatever the count is.

No that’s awful. If you did anything out of the ordinary whilst a SAHM you could reference skills from that - eg treasurer of the school PTA. Otherwise referencing it as a career break for caring responsibilities is fine.

I also took a 10 year career break as a SAHM and have been back in the workforce for about 9 years now with no obvious impact on career progression so don’t worry about your time out holding you back

Sounds silly to me. Bit pretentious. If you have to say anything just say you took a career break as you wanted to give your young DC the best start you could, but now they are older you want to resume your career. That tells the employer you won't be taking extended mat leave. All they care about is you being there to do the job.

I love it actually but no clue if it's CV worthy. I had 6 months off when self employed & just added. Career break due to maternity leave.

I would probably mention it it I had 3+ kids as that really needs organisational skill, one not so much imo.

No don’t use that. I would say that having had a career break due the care of your children you are now keen to establish yourself in the working world.

hmmm that's what I thought. The job is office manager and I've also seen this as a suggested sentence
"Whilst I do not have direct experience as an Office Manager, I am confident that my transferrable skills make me a strong candidate for this role."
Should you really say you don't have any experience? I mean I don't, but should I actually say it in black and white?

I'm not sure I have any relevant experience as such but its a part time job, nearby. So I really need it!

Feels like it's leading into something and then stops. I don't know exactly what but, depending what the job is making it relevant to it somehow... 'making me a more rounded person as an employee'?

As a hiring manager I'd have no issues with that on a CV, especially if you're looking for a job where time management and organisational skills are important. Be prepared to give me examples of the techniques you'd be hoping to apply to the role.

No. It sounds really pompous and a bit silly. Far better as another poster said I had a career break to take care of my young family. Now ai want to return to work.

Saying you honed your skills sounds like you didn't have them before. Maybe just state you have excellent organisational skills, good at managing competing priorities?

No I wouldn't use that. Fine to say you had a career break to have children. It's the kind of thing you could say in a more conversational kind of way during an interview, at a push.

But if you don't have experience of being an office manager, you need to play up every relevant skill you gained in your previous role to the max, I think that's all you can do.

Or. '...helping me to be more able to adapt to a role as office manager.'

No, sorry. For me when recruiting, I didn't care at all that people had taken time out to raise children etc, but I wasn't interested in details of that on their CVs. Similarly when I saw home renovations listed as project management.

For me it was about accountability to just yourself and by extension your family vs to an employer or clients. Also none of the domestic experience is verifiable.

Some volunteering or online courses would be a lot more substantial if you want something up to date to include.

Cover letters and cvs always sound pompous and pretentious to me, I don't get how you write an acceptable one!

@MedSchoolRat I only have only ever done research (phd) and then 18 months temp work writing publications for an organisation that was generating too many results to keep up with their publications.