Back On The Career Track on Shine

Beginning the journey of re-entering the work force

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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.

Enthusiasm abounds at Career Relaunch Forum hosted by iRelaunch

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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.

Money is the #1 driver for women returning to work. What are the others?

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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.

36 real examples of how to stay connected to your field while on career break (including 5 from retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor!)

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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:

Shine readers we love: Manage Your Life

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My favorite thing about Shine since we launched a year ago is reading the smart, helpful, and often personal posts by our readers and regular contributors. Many come and stay for awhile, some drop in every once in a while, some leave and some come back. But Lylah Alphonse has blogged on Shine, first on Work + Money and more recently on Manage Your Life, since the beginning. And, oh, what a welcome voice she is in a space where we share ways to get through the day a little saner, a little smarter, with our priorities in tact and our life running as smoothly as possible.

A relauncher's guide to acing the interview

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A Relauncher’s Guide to Acing the Interview

If you’ve been out of the workforce raising a family or for other personal reasons, how much should you talk about your career break during an interview? Do you have to talk about it at all? What’s worth touting from your stay-at-home experience and what isn’t? Also, how do you impress someone in a job interview when you haven’t held a “real job” in years? Here are the answers to these questions and more.

What's next for the empty nester?

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My co-author and iRelaunch co-founder Carol was recently doing a prototypical parent thing—taking one of her kids, a senior in high school, for a quickie trip to visit one last possible college—when she picked up a copy of Philadelphia magazine on her US Airways flight. The baby pink cover probably caught her attention, as did, I’m sure, the headline: “You Quit Your Job to Raise Your Kids . . . And Now They’re Grown. . . Now What? . . . The Existential Crisis of the Stay-at-Home Mom” by Vicki Glembocki http://www.phillymag.com/articles/the_existential_crisis_of_the_wait_at_home_mom/.