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>Quitting to do your own thing, as long as you show employers why you did it in a year or two, shouldn’t be a detriment for getting rehired. That said, hiring m
by walktheplank 5y ago
>Quitting to do your own thing, as long as you show employers why you did it in a year or two, shouldn’t be a detriment for getting rehired. That said, hiring managers may question if you’d quit again in a year (depending on your past employment tenure)…
It shouldn't be a detriment for getting rehired, period. If you are qualified for a role and pass an interview bar, there is no reason a potential employer should care about a break you took from working. I treated being asked about this as a yellow flag, as it may indicate the employer thinks you should be living to work.
- stjohnswarts 5y agoMy breaks have mattered “occasionally” with a few companies but by and large what you say is correct and it barely made people scratch their chin more than a few seconds, and I've had breaks (intentionally) of anywhere between 2-4 months every couple of years.
- ebiester 5y agoHiring manager here. Knowledge has a half life. If you have taken 6 months off, and have an interesting story, this is not a big deal. (For example, I took 8 months off to live in Istanbul. I had two interviews and two offers when coming back, one of which was completely outside my network.) However, I had also just taken a month to do a functional course, and had worked half-heartedly on a startup that went nowhere. I had a story. The longer you take off, the more of a story you will need, even if that's "in the last 3 months, I built a small toy to get myself reacquainted with React and Python" even if this is a Rails omakase shop. Or, that story may be something completely different. All I care about is "can you hit the ground running?"
- andi999 5y agoSo what is the half life constant? Does it also apply to skill or only to knowledge? Are you hiring knowledge or skill?