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By Back on the Career Track Last updated: Tue Jul 20, 2010 10:09am PDT-
We are launching a new feature called the iRelaunch Return to Work Tip of the Week. This week's tip is "Look for Unexpected Jobs in Unexpected Places". Take a look to find out more:
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By Vivian Steir Rabin
Almost two months ago, I received the following e-mail from one of the attendees of our iRelaunch Return to Work Conference:“I’ve run into what seems to be a couple of good career opportunities with employers of small, growing companies who believe that I could help them grow and develop their businesses. The opportunities are essentially what I’d make of them…both of these entrepreneurs have decided that they could benefit from working with me, but have left the ball in my court to propose a position and compensation structure. I’m having challenges in figuring out the compensation structure because I’ve been out of the workplace for awhile and I don’t particularly know what I’m worth. In addition, because both of these companies are small and growing, they likely can’t pay me what I’m worth, so it might make sense for me to have a base salary plus some kind of performance based incentives. I’m essentially trying to figure out how to structure a compensation package that’s affordable for them, but that reasonably compensates me for what I can offer them.”
I decided that it would be hard to give her advice without knowing more about her situation so I set up a time to speak with her. Here are some of the “takeaways” from that conversation:
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by Carol Fishman Cohen
It started with this question in Sue Shellenbarger’s Wall Street Journal Work & Family Mailbox Q and A from an at home dad wanting advice on returning to work “I enjoyed your article on stay-at-home moms returning to work. Do you see men facing the same issues? After 10 years at home with my kids, I am beginning to interview for jobs and am preparing for the transition you describe. —R.C., Marietta , Ga.”
A few weeks later, her “The Juggle” blog on “Trouble When Dad Returns to the Workforce” took a closer look at whether men face a more difficult time returning to work than women after a career break (we think they do). Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (0) | Blog
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Today, May 7, is Military Spouse Appreciation Day and the official launch day of the brand new National Military Spouse Network (NMSN). The NMSN is a professional development and networking organization for military spouses, with a focus on helping them "balance a viable career with the military lifestyle". Career continuity is a huge issue for military spouses. Frequent moves and unpredictable deployment schedules leave the primary family management, childcare and eldercare duties to the spouse left at home, making the career break an inevitable reality for many. The NMSN provides a community for military spouse professionals, businesses, academics and media to share expertise and advice about realistic career development, given the constraints that military life entails. Read More »
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Guest Post by Terry Sand: Just a few years ago I had to take a break from my speaking career to survive cancer and raise the most beautiful girl in the world. I returned to work by getting my fanny out of the house and into working retail at the women's clothing store Coldwater Creek (not exactly a direct application of my Masters Degree in Theater and Modern Dance from UCLA). It was the day to day connections with people that provided the fuel to power my professional renaissance.
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Daily Grommet, home of "Citizen Commerce™ ," is in their words, "an online marketplace where you can discover and buy inventive, new products and learn their true stories."
Daily Grommet Executive in Residence Lara Simon
Grommet is not only breaking new ground on the e-commerce front, but in their employment practices. We wrote about Daily Grommet a year ago; how Founder Jules Pieri took a three year career break earlier in her career, how Grommet has hired a number of "relaunchers" - our name for people returning to work after a career break, and how Grommet has featured products created by relaunchers. Then the Grommet team went one step further and created an Executive in Residence (EIR) position for a returning professional. Jules Pieri wrote an excellent post about their first EIR experience and agreed to let us feature it as a guest post on our blog. Take a look: Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (0) | Blog
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I’m not one to overly obsess about my Twitter following, but about six months ago, I couldn’t help noticing that I was attracting followers at a pace rivaling the comment rate on Yahoo! Shine’s coverage of Michelle Obama’s new hairdo! A little investigation revealed the reason: I had recently been added to Career Rocketeer’s 150+ Experts on Twitter all Job Seekers Must Follow. Not only did Career Rocketeer Founder Chris Perry populate this list with live links to each Twitter “expert”, he included below it a convenient way for people to follow the whole list via NinjaFollow.
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Before the holidays, I had the singular pleasure of addressing a roomful of female high school juniors and seniors on the subject of careers. A close friend, who is the principal of an all girls parochial school in the Washington, DC area, had invited me to keynote the school’s Career Fair. The student body has very traditional values (becoming a wife and mother is a high priority) so I kept that in mind in my remarks. Here’s a summary of what I said Read More »
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(@military_mom tweeted about these roosters moments before the tragedy)
I'm supposed to be working right now but I can't get a particular twitter posting from last night out of my mind. I use twitter primarily for business. I follow lots of moms because my focus is returning to work after a career break, and I follow military moms because of the special issues involved in their career continuity. So I was just checking in when I saw this post in my live feed from @military_mom (shellie ross) "Please pray like never before, my 2 yr old fell in the pool". Read More »
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Lisa Chenofsky Singer
Career Coach Lisa Chenofsky Singer leads our Relaunch Circles Return to Work Coaching Program in New Jersey. Here she writes for the Millburn-Short Hills Patch about how to begin the relaunch process. This article is reprinted in its entirety below. The original piece can be accessed here.
You want to relaunch your career, but how do you do it?
GUEST POST by Lisa Chenofsky Singer
Dear Career Coach Lisa,
How do I begin my journey of re-entering the work force either on a part-time or job-sharing basis? Although I have kept up with my professional journals and conferences, I have not worked in my field for the past several years.
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