Back on the Career Track’s Blog
By Back on the Career Track Last updated: Wed Jul 1, 2009 11:12am PDT-
Yes, I know the two things a woman is not supposed to reveal are her age or her weight, but I think we’ve been too defensive, especially about age. I just hit the Big Five-oh! and thank God I’m reveling in it. In 1971, when Loving Care came out with “You’re not getting older, you’re getting better,” I couldn’t relate. But now, I couldn’t agree more. So don’t feel your marketability has plummeted just because you’ve hit the Big One. You can make it work for you, or at least keep it from working against you, if you follow these steps. Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (0) | Blog
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Last week I had the privilege of participating in two excellent return to work events; one for lawyers and one for computer scientists/engineers. My co-author Vivian Steir Rabin and I have participated in almost 80 return-to-work events in the last three years, and these two definitely ranked among the top. Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (0) | Blog
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My iRelaunch co-founder and I recently heard from two acquaintances who landed jobs using some of our favorite strategies. Although their stories are unique, their strategies can be used by almost anyone. Here are their stories and strategies: Read More »
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This week we are featuring a guest blogger – Relauncher Tammy Thurow, Vice President, Marketing and Membership Services, for the Bentonville/Bella Vista Chamber of Commerce (as in Bentonville, Arkansas where Wal-Mart is based!). In fact, we were introduced to Tammy by Lucretia Pruitt, aka @GeekMommy, who is one of the Wal-Mart “Eleven Moms” influential mom bloggers and product testing group, and whom we profiled a few weeks ago. Tammy’s relaunch story was so authentic and instructive, that we asked her if she would guest blog this week so you can hear it from her directly, and she agreed. So here’s Tammy… Read More »
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The highlight of our research for our career reentry strategy book Back on the Career Track: A Guide for Stay-at-Home Moms Who Want to Return to Work was interviewing Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor about her five years as a stay-at-home mom (she was still on the court when we met with her). Justice O’Connor was a master at staying connected to her field during her career break. Her contacts from one of her career break experiences, her volunteer work for the Republican Party, helped O’Connor relaunch her career in the Arizona Attorney General’s Office in 1965. And we all know what happened after that. Vivian and I are regularly asked for ideas on how relaunchers can stay connected to their fields while on career break. Rather than just give suggestions, I thought it would be more useful to see a list of actual examples. Here they are, beginning with five from Justice O’Connor:
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I’m getting the same question a lot lately from friends and acquaintances who are on the job market, either because they recently lost their jobs or because they’re seeking to reenter the workforce because their husbands lost their jobs or are otherwise feeling vulnerable. The question is: should I take a job that is “beneath” me or only a short term assignment, or should I hold out for that one perfect permanent job I was looking for? Now, more than ever, my answer is an almost unqualified “grab whatever you can.” And here’s why. Read More »
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by Carol Fishman Cohen
@GeekMommy, aka Lucretia Pruitt, has over 12,500 followers on Twitter. She is a COBOL expert, a former computer science professor, and she heads up her own social media strategy consulting firm Social Media Matters. She is one of Walmart’s “Eleven Moms,” and corporate giants ranging from Ford to Colgate-Palmolive fly her out to blast reviews of their new products to her vast cyber-network. Of course we met through Twitter!
Lucretia is also a “relauncher” – she took a career break and then returned to work. When Lucretia was pregnant, she and her husband originally thought her husband was going to stay home and she was going to continue teaching Computer Information Services at DeVry University . But when her daughter was born she changed her mind. She decided to be the stay at home parent. Here are the lessons from her instructive and inspiring “relaunch story.” Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (4) | Blog
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My iRelaunch co-founder Carol and I recently received the following e-mail: ”Hi. Thanks for taking my e-mail. I'm 37, and I've been a stay-at-home mom for 13 years. I tried working when my two oldest children were young, but because I have no family to help when the kids are sick (my husband works) I've been unable to keep a job. In addition to the two older kids, we have a child who isn't in school yet and a 5 year old with a severe disability, Angelman Syndrome http://www.angelman.org/ who is sick a lot and has seizures. I've found that no one wants to hire me even for a night position because of my family. I assume it's also because I've been out of the workforce for so long. Read More »
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Through our company iRelaunch.com, my co-author and business partner Vivian Steir Rabin and I have presented our career reentry strategies to over 4,000 people at almost 75 events since 2006. We keep a running list of our top job search strategies, as we are always updating and adding to it. For the first time in print, we present to you five of iRelaunch’s "best of the best" job search ideas. Read More »
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I’d like to share with you some excellent relauncher resources I have come across in the past few months. They range from the instructive to the inspirational, to the idea-generating. Let’s start with “instructive.” Interview Mastery is an in-depth guide to interviewing skills and strategies created by Michael Neece. I met Michael recently and was intrigued by both his personal story (he’s also a founder of Pongo Resume) and his Interview Mastery product. Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (1) | Blog
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