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There, fixed it.
Do you have any pictures or journals from your travels? If so, build out a long-form article or better yet a small site. Explore why you went and what you learned, how the experience changed you, etc etc. You can reference this new destination on your resume rather than leaving a blank spot.
Its a red flag. If you are capable of taking of for an year, whats stopping you from taking off again. No one wants to hire someone who will leave after sometime. And there are probably other hires who dont have this red flag.
Its a red flag. If you are capable of taking of for an year, whats stopping you from taking off again. No one wants to hire someone who will leave after sometime. And there are probably other hires who dont have this red flag.
List it like a job, what you've done and achieved. How does that break make you different to the others?
All else being equal, I'd hire the one who's took a break from their environment, learned new cultures, and made the most of live.
Don't listen too hard to recruiters, when I got back I started wondering if it was an issue, and then something came along.
(That feeling of "will I work again" seems to happen every time I'm between contracts, after the first month or so).
Here's the section of my C.V. from when I went travelling + coding my own projects:
Dec 2014 – Jan 2016 Travelling + Open Source
Audiovisual work and creative coding - many improvements on the creative coding environment Shoebot.
Prototypes built included a midi mapper, music visualisers and simple VJ tools, culminating in using them to VJ for a band in Taipei.
Submitted fixes to OpenGL/Shader tutorials as I completed them. Implemented Vext to make it easier to use graphic and gui packages with virtualenv such as Panda3D, Gtk and Qt, it broke 100 downloads within 3 months of being uploaded to Pypi.
Instead of worrying about it, why not turn it into a strength? Do you have any pictures or journals from your travels? If so, build out a long-form article or better yet a small site. Explore why you went and what you learned, how the experience changed you, etc etc. You can reference this new destination on your resume rather than leaving a blank spot.
Its a red flag. If you are capable of taking of for an year, whats stopping you from taking off again. No one wants to hire someone who will leave after sometime. And there are probably other hires who dont have this red flag.
If you have more than one employer listed on your resume, what's stopping you from quitting the company that might hire you? No one wants to hire someone who will leave after some time for a new job.
However a dinstinctly high frequency of changing jobs, say in the 90th percentile among candidates (and how many people take sabbaticals?), now that could be a red flag already. And for exactly that reason - it implies the candidate is relatively likely to jump teams again.
Hence it is not absurd to assume quite a few employers would prefer someone who worked at 2 places throughout the past few years over someone who worked at 5 - all other things being equal, obviously.
I am not arguing whether it's right or justified - or to what extent. That's another story.
Its a red flag. If you are capable of taking of for an year, whats stopping you from taking off again. No one wants to hire someone who will leave after sometime. And there are probably other hires who dont have this red flag.