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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.

Our Relaunch Success Story - as told to the Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Women Financial Advisors Forum

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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.

After a two-year career break, Kim Clijsters SHINES in U.S. Open Semi's

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by Carol Fishman Cohen

Update: Kim Clijsters won the U.S. Open, beating Caroline Wozniacki 7-5, 6-3 to become the second mother to win a major since Evonne Goolagong Cawley in 1980 at Wimbledon.

Last night's U.S. Open Semi Final match between Kim Clijsters and Serena Williams may have ended on a controversial note, but there was no mistaking Clijsters' strong and stunning performance following a two-year break from the pro circuit after the birth of her daughter. We've been tracking her progress closely as she's been winning her way through the U.S. Open's earlier rounds, including her victory over tennis great Venus Williams.

Return-to-work lessons from @GeekMommy: Twitter celebrity, computer scientist, and relauncher

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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.”

Help. Mother of four, including severely disabled child, trying to get back to work

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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.

Announcing: iRelaunch’s five secret job search tips no other job seeker wants you to know!

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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.

Announcing: The first comprehensive list of career re-entry programs worldwide

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Programs for those on career break interested in returning to work have been introduced at such a rapid rate over the last few years that we thought it would be useful to identify them all and put them in one place. Therefore, we are proud to announce the iRelaunch Comprehensive List of Career Re-entry Programs Worldwide offered by employers, universities, foundations and other organizations.

We have identified 57 programs so far. Only nine of these programs, or 16 percent, existed prior to 2004.