Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Education Technology and Economic Management (ICETEM 2017)

Review on the Impact of Gap Years on Career Development

Authors
Guomei Tian, Wei Ran
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Guomei Tian
Available Online November 2017.
DOI
10.2991/icetem-17.2017.61How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Gap year, Career development, Employability
Abstract

Gap years means that individuals leave formal learning, training or work places to have a pause or a rest during a period of 3-24 months, which has been an obvious feature of the career development in 21st century. While researches on the definition and impact of gap years is far from enough, we aim to review on different types of gap years, the motivation to participate in gap years, its influence on career development, give some possible directions for future research in this last section.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Education Technology and Economic Management (ICETEM 2017)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
November 2017
ISBN
10.2991/icetem-17.2017.61
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icetem-17.2017.61How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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