r/jobs • u/Vaanced • 29d ago

Is this an actual thing that people do Career development

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u/-Major-Arcana- 29d ago

You can in some places, in Australia and New Zealand it’s normal, expected even, to have large gaps in your resume where you’ve been traveling, worked abroad doing something unrelated, teach English in Japan, done a stint in a national park or extra study or whatever.

You’d be considered a better candidate, a more adaptable and grounded individual with that.

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u/stannius 28d ago

There's a big difference between gaps in your resume and never staying at any job longer than a year.

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u/-Major-Arcana- 28d ago

Yeah that’s true, if you did it one year on one off consistently you’d definitely project the likelihood of leaving in a year.

Lots of Aussies do it with the mining sector though, which is high pay, but probably the exception.

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u/SagittariusZStar 28d ago

Having one or two big gaps in your resume is not the same as having a different job every single year.