Share your experience and learning in job interviews
Proactively bring up your career break during the interview. Focus on how your time away has developed you, the valuable skills you've learned, or how you discovered a new passion.
Connect the dots between what you did during your career break and what you can bring to a particular role as a result. For example, you helped your child with homeschooling and realised you had a passion for teaching or community volunteering.
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