LinkedIn recently introduced a new category — Career Breaks — for users who are building profiles. The new label helps normalize the idea that careers are not always linear — and will give an enormous boost to the recruiting efforts of employers running career reentry programs or otherwise targeting the pool of professionals returning from career breaks.
A New Way to Explain the Pause in Your Career
LinkedIn’s “Career Break” feature is designed to help people relaunch after some time away from the workforce.
March 23, 2022
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Summary.
In 2021, LinkedIn added “Stay at Home Parent” as a job title. In 2022, it’s added a “Career Break” label that lets people designate periods of time when they left the paid workforce for travel, volunteer work, caregiving, or just time off. The new category option will help job seekers better represent their experiences while also allowing recruiters to better identify and target candidates for return-to-work programs.
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