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Taking Charge of Your Career (HBR Women at Work Series)
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Taking Charge of Your Career (HBR Women at Work Series)

by Harvard Business Review, Dorie Clark, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Stacy Abrams, Lara Hodgson
December 2022
Beginner content levelBeginner
240 pages
3h 24m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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Take Time Off Between Jobs

by Rebecca Zucker

Changing jobs is an ideal opportunity to take time off, and we all know that having sufficient downtime is instrumental in starting any new job refreshed and recharged, ready to take on a new challenge. In an ideal world, we would take sabbaticals in between jobs; such a break can be particularly helpful in the case of burnout. A sabbatical is not focused job-search time but is mostly downtime devoted to creative and personal pursuits (which may include some career exploration) and can last anywhere from a month to a year.

I took a yearlong sabbatical in Paris earlier in my career after working a few years in investment banking and then in an equally demanding job in strategic planning. This extended ...

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ISBN: 9781647824655