It depends how you frame it. A gap is empty. But it's not because you take a whole year (or even more) off of work that you do nothing. Project yourself: will

It depends how you frame it. A gap is empty. But it's not because you take a whole year (or even more) off of work that you do nothing. Project yourself: will you have grown in some way, learned anything new (about yourself, or about anything else) that gives you an advantage/maturity/oversight compared to other candidates to the same positions? Edit: as for tech, things move fast, but not _so_ fast either. Unless you're looking for positions where you are expected to be top-productive on the spot in the latest technologies updates, you ARE definitely relevant with the same technical bagage in 2/3 years time. Places that advertise the contrary smell problematic anyway: what matters is knowing how to do the right thing first. Then doing it.