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Time Out Well Spent; A playbook for getting the most out of your break between jobs

Filed under Career Exploration, Job Hunting, Job Search Process, Networking
Posted by Libraries, December 17, 2007
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Time Out Well Spent; A playbook for getting the most out of your break between jobs By Toddi Gutner. Business Week. December 3rd, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1390209041&SrchMode=1&sid=1&Fmt=3&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1197357354&clientId=19053 (Note: If you are off-campus, log-in is required for access. Click here for info.)

Any time you don’t have a job can be scary. But it can also be fun, meaningful, and even helpful to your future career. This article provides a guide to the many things you can choose to do when you aren’t holding a job, such as starting your own company, or traveling around the world, and provides the steps to making sure that your between-jobs activities will look good on your resume, while still making you feel happy and fulfilled. Steps include imagining what you would do if you had nothing stopping you, look to all the relationships you’ve built personally and professionally to see how they could be of help to you, and to “just do it.”

— Deborah Borsuk