How critically do employers look at gap years on candidates’ resumes? If I planned on doing volunteer service in a foreign country for a year and then returned to the states, am I damaged goods? Will there be no job willing to hire me? Do I have to go back to square one?

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Chill, as long as you have a story that makes sense it shouldn’t really affect you

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It all depends. If you leave after one busy season and take a year off, it’ll be perceived far differently from an experienced manager doing the same.

Try to get the job you are with to let you do it. Best situation. PWC would

I took a gap year after working for 5 years. Nobody said a thing.

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