Everybody can use a vacation from work. Some people take breaks after resigning from a particular job which lasts from a few weeks, months, to even years. It is easy to let ourselves go when we’re taking sometime off especially when we have legitimate reasons for doing so as when we’re taking care of the family, illness, travel, and the likes. The problem here is that when you decide to work again, most employers would not look favorably upon these gaps in our employment history especially if they are lengthy.
You can be 100% sure that employers would inquire about these gaps especially if the company has a strict security policy. They will want to know what you have been keeping yourself busy with during the gaps. Your future employers will want to know if you are willfully keeping anything from them as far as your employment status from other companies are concerned in these gaps, especially if they didn’t go very favorably for you. On the interview, the only way you can really do is honestly explain the reasons why you took such breaks, but in the light of relevant experiences which have positively helped you for your future career.
Think of activities you did in your gap which is useful for the job you are applying. Be creative on your approach; it may involve anything from a simple community project to a special engagement. Don’t give your interviewer the chance to see these gaps as a sort of weakness in your job capabilities. One trick you can do is to do a functional CV format instead of the traditional one wherein the focus of it are your special and particular skills and past projects, and not so much the chronology of your employment history.
