If you delete then restore your facebook account, do you retain all of your friends?

Never did this before, so just wondering. If I delete my account can I restore it at a later date? And if so, will I keep all my friends or will I have to start from scratch? Reason I want to do this is for when I do my job search eventually, don’t want potential employers stalking/checking my fb account. Not that I did anything questionable on there, but just in case.