career hiatus
Break from work
A career hiatus is a deliberate break from professional work, typically lasting months or years.
People take career hiatuses for various reasons: raising children, caring for family, pursuing education, traveling, or recovering from burnout.
The term frames unemployment as intentional rather than circumstantial: She took a two-year career hiatus after her daughter was born.
Explaining a career hiatus on a résumé remains a common concern for job seekers.
- sabbaticalExtended leave from work
- breakInterrupt continuity
- pauseTemporary cessation of activity
- gapUnfilled space between
- gap yearPlanned educational hiatus
taking time off · leave · parental leave · timeout · time out · intermission · burnout · recharge · pivot · reflection · unemployment · layoff · job hunting · maternity · paternity · retreat · wanderlust · reinvention
career hiatuscareer peak
Summit of professional achievement
climbing the ladder · fast track · career advancement · upward mobility · upward trajectory
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