Utilizar perguntas abertas que permitam aos candidatos explicar suas escolhas e experiências. Pergunte, por exemplo, "O que levou você a fazer uma pausa na sua carreira?" ou "Quais foram os fatores decisivos para sua volta ao mercado de trabalho?"

To professionally explore motivations for a career gap, ask open-ended, neutral questions like, “What motivated you to take a break during this period?” or “Can you share what you focused on during that time?” Show empathy by avoiding assumptions and normalising career breaks, e.g., “Many professionals take time off for various reasons.” Finally, focus on growth by asking if the time helped them gain clarity or pursue new skills, creating an open and respectful dialogue.

Career breaks may happen for a university course, training program or even may happen because of disease and family problems. It is not just for being unmotivated person or such reasons. If interviewer encounter with career break, should find main cause of it and compatibility of break duration and cause. وقفه های شغلی ممکن است برای یک دوره دانشگاهی، برنامه آموزشی یا حتی به دلیل بیماری و مشکلات خانوادگی رخ دهد. این وقفه تنها به دلیل بی انگیزگی یا دلایلی از این دست نیست. در صورت مواجهه مصاحبهگر با وقفه شغلی، باید علت اصلی آن و سازگاری مدت و علت وقفه را بیابد.

Para entender mejor sus motivaciones, pregunto sobre lo aprendido durante la pausa, identifico actividades proactivas realizadas y exploro sus objetivos futuros. Esto revela su crecimiento y compromiso con la nueva oportunidad.

Career breaks happen. It may be a choice the job seeker made or it might not be (laid off, fired, etc). It's very easy to approach a candidate's career break with bias. Whether that bias is intentional or unintentional, it's still likely there. First step, check your bias. My advice to interviewers would be seek to understand the reason for the break and probe with empathy. Sometimes we just need a mental break...and that's ok too. Your best hires might have taken time to just relax, enjoy their families and friends, travel and do some self-care so they are ready for their next gig. The self-care kind of career break may benefit your company more than a LinkedIn Learning certificate.