During the pandemic, those are forced to leave their job, a lot of them have taken this opportunity to learn more skills or other things that can add to their professional life. These newly learned skills for the individual will make them unique candidates for vacant jobs. But how does a hiring manager know the real reasoning behind this break if it’s written nowhere? Not like the candidate will voluntarily write a diary in their CV to explain this gap.

With this trend, LinkedIn has now implemented a new feature that allows users to add a career break section in their experience block along with a description box that will better capture their professional life experience. In hopes to help hiring managers understand that his gap is not just a break, and spark a conversation with the job seeker during an interview.

During the career break, over half of the surveyed employees have acquired new skills or improved their existing ones and half of the women said they were better at their jobs than they were before. 

This new section can also benefit hiring managers to rethink their questions during the interview. The career breaks section will help to have a better understanding of the candidate, as well as it will help the manager to understand how the interviewee is capable to learn new skills.