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Last week's New York Times carried a prominent story about the twisted social scenes on college campuses with lopsided girl populations. With colleges averaging 57% female, getting the most desirable guys on campus leads to competitions of the most dysfunctional kind. Since we at iRelaunch are doing a lot of work right now on how women with tech backgrounds return to work after career breaks, we are focusing on the schools those women attended in the first place. Guess what? Tech schools are overwhelmingly male!- Let’s talk: Comment (1) | 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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At iRelaunch's "Career Relaunch Forum" held at Seton Hall University last week, co-founders, Carol Fishman Cohen and Vivian Steir Rabin, delivered one powerful message to the nearly sold-out crowd of 150+ attendees: YOU can relaunch your professional career after a hiatus at home.
No matter if headhunters dismiss you.
No matter why you left in the first place.
No matter how long the hiatus.
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NY Working Moms Examiner Amy Impellizzeri interviews Back on the Career Track co-author Carol Fishman Cohen about returning to work after a career break. Amy's first question to Carol focuses on what motivates women to return to work. Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (0) | Blog
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We told our Relaunch Success Story to the Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Women Financial Advisors Forum. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney is hiring financial advisors across the country and they are interested in women relaunchers -- women who are returning to work after a career break -- for this role. Read More »
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By Vivian Steir Rabin
With kids back in school, this is the time of year that many mothers think about going back to work, or “relaunching” their careers as we call it; this year perhaps more than ever before. Although the job market is tight, we’ve heard from relaunchers all over the country who have found (or created) opportunities in this market, despite the difficult economy. I’ve been wondering . . . what distinguishes these women from other stay-at-home moms seeking to return to work? Are they extremely brilliant or well-connected? Although some of the women we’ve heard from do fall into these categories, the majority are regular folks whose qualifications are not particularly extraordinary. But they all shared one important trait: Read More »
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As one who chronicles return to work stories in every field, I was particularly inspired by Clijsters "relaunch," as my co-author Vivian Steir Rabin and I call the process of transitioning from home to work after a career break. Most of us don't relaunch our careers at Arthur Ashe Stadium before over 23,000 people, and Clijsters explained afterward she expected her comeback to be a bit more gradual. "I just wanted to start these three tournaments and get back into the rhythm of playing tennis and get used to the surroundings again."- Let’s talk: Comment (1) | Blog
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