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Tukeri Bafeya
A look inside the program — how sessions are structured, what each phase covers, and what you produce at every stage.
Resume Reconstruction
A resume with a gap is not a broken resume. It's a resume that requires specific handling. The work in this module is precise: we examine how the gap reads visually on the page, how the language before and after the gap sets context, and how to describe the caregiving period in a way that is accurate and professionally legible.
We update skills sections for current market language. We review how your most recent pre-gap role is described. We assess whether a functional or chronological format better serves your particular situation. The output is a revised resume that you own and understand completely.
Interview Narrative Development
The interview question about your gap will come. "Tell me about this period here." How you answer determines a great deal about how the rest of the interview goes. An unprepared answer signals uncertainty. A practiced, honest, appropriately brief answer signals professionalism.
This module works through the actual language of your explanation. We record mock interview sessions. You hear yourself. You receive feedback from both the facilitator and your cohort peers. You iterate. By the end of this module, you have a response that feels natural because you've said it enough times that it is.
Network Reactivation
Reconnecting with people you haven't been in contact with for one to three years requires a different approach than standard networking. The instinct is often to over-explain. To apologize. To preemptively address the gap before it's even asked about.
We work through the specific language of reintroduction. How to reach out without making the gap the subject of the message. How to update your LinkedIn presence in a way that invites conversation rather than questions. How to reconnect with former colleagues in a way that feels natural rather than transactional.
Confidence Rebuilding
Professional confidence erodes during time away. This is not a character flaw. It's a predictable outcome of being removed from professional contexts where competence is regularly affirmed. The rebuild requires deliberate exposure to those contexts again.
Throughout the program, we create structured moments of professional performance: presentations to the cohort, facilitated discussions, feedback exercises. Each of these is a small confidence-building event. Accumulated over twelve weeks, they restore the sense of professional self that caregiving quietly displaced.
One-on-one check-ins at every milestone.
Group sessions are where most of the work happens. But individual coaching check-ins at key program milestones ensure that your specific situation receives direct attention. Your industry. Your target roles. The particular way your gap reads in your field.
These are not generic conversations. They are working sessions focused on the details that only matter to you.
Discuss Your SituationSee when the next cohort begins.
Review the upcoming schedule and reach out with any questions about the program structure.