On: VW deactivates employee email outside working hour...

[nostrademons]

Start a blog about your experiences and then call yourself a self-employed travel blogger. Might even make a little AdSense cash off of it too.

There are all sorts of creative ways to get around HR.

[toomuchtodo → nostrademons]

Or just lie and have someone you know in the industry say you worked for them during that period of time.

Hate the game, not those who must survive within it.

[georgieporgie → nostrademons]

HR isn't going to read your blog, and HR is, sadly, the gateway to (just a guess here) 90% of job opportunities. If you have an 'in' at the company, you can bypass HR's initial gating, and your plan will work, otherwise it's unlikely.

[nostrademons → georgieporgie]

The point isn't to get HR to read your blog; the point is to fill up that timeslot on your resume so that automated screening systems don't reject you for having a gap. If you'd worked at a regular corporation, it's virtually certain that HR wouldn't be able to see your work product either.