Career Breaks
Information on Career Breaks
A career break is a period away from what someone considers to be their main career. Its duration can range from a few months to several years, and examples include maternity leave and time taken off to look after children or elders. Other common reasons for taking a career break include travel or relocating with a partner. It may also comprise periods of paid work, which the person on the break does not consider to be part of their main career.
A key issue to emerge from our research on career breaks is that few people thought in advance about how they would manage their career break. In response to this the Institute published a guide which aims to help physicists to prepare and plan their career break. In particular, the guide outlines strategies and actions designed to make returning to a science, engineering and technology (SET) career a positive experience.
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