How to put a 'career break' on LinkedIn?

[boxst]

I got made redundant from a relatively new role last June, the previous to that company I worked for nine years. On my CV I have put that I took a 'family break' which is true: I volunteered for the Samaritans and had the opportunity to spend the last year with my daughters. I have worked 35 years continually with extensive travel and kind of missed out on the family thing.

But one is off for a gap year to Asia, and the other doing a University swap in America so I want to get back to work.

The CV is fine (as above), but any suggestions what to put on LinkedIn?

Thanks for any help,

Steve/

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Pretty sure LI has an actual "career break" option

[oneandone]

You can enter what you want for a current position.
“Sabbatical” is a good option, maybe with some blurb (if you want ) about recharging your batteries and quality family time.

[boxst]

Thank you for the replies. Still not sure which one to put. The blurb would be:

"Having worked continually for 35 years, travelling extensively
across the world, I took the opportunity to volunteer for the
Samaritans taking calls and running training classes for new
Samaritans. This is far from a fulltime commitment, and it
gave me much missed time to spend with my family"

[Gargamel]

boxst said:

Thank you for the replies. Still not sure which one to put. The blurb would be:

"Having worked continually for 35 years, travelling extensively
across the world, I took the opportunity to volunteer for the
Samaritans taking calls and running training classes for new
Samaritans. This is far from a fulltime commitment, and it
gave me much missed time to spend with my family"

Don’t put the 35 years, it ages you significantly. Makes you sound worn out.

Sabbatical

Volunteering with the Samaritan’s
Family time
Global travel

[InformationSuperHighway]

Gargamel said:

boxst said:

Thank you for the replies. Still not sure which one to put. The blurb would be:

"Having worked continually for 35 years, travelling extensively
across the world, I took the opportunity to volunteer for the
Samaritans taking calls and running training classes for new
Samaritans. This is far from a fulltime commitment, and it
gave me much missed time to spend with my family"

Don’t put the 35 years, it ages you significantly. Makes you sound worn out.

Sabbatical

Volunteering with the Samaritan’s
Family time
Global travel

Agreed. Less is more.

Also I'd avoid any language around needing a break, or recharging batteries etc... makes you sound like you burnt out.

[mikef]

Why put anything about it on LI?

Recruiters will match on what you’ve done, not on what you haven’t done

You can explain when you get to interview

[InformationSuperHighway]

mikef said:

Why put anything about it on LI?

Recruiters will match on what you’ve done, not on what you haven’t done

You can explain when you get to interview

Great point.

[pork911]

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