Review on the Impact of Gap Years on Career Development
Authors
Guomei Tian, Wei Ran
Corresponding Author
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.
- 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/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Guomei Tian AU - Wei Ran PY - 2017/11 DA - 2017/11 TI - Review on the Impact of Gap Years on Career Development BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Education Technology and Economic Management (ICETEM 2017) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 280 EP - 284 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icetem-17.2017.61 DO - 10.2991/icetem-17.2017.61 ID - Tian2017/11 ER -