iStockphoto.com Are you contemplating a return to the work force after a career break but unsure how to do it? Do you wonder if you need to take some classes to update your skills? Or maybe you’re thinking about an…
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Career Services at Community Colleges
Tagged with: American Association of Community Colleges, career assessment, career break, career coach, career counselor, career plan, career services, community college, Community College Finder, counselor, Dr. Julie Leidig, life coach, Luzerne County Community College, Mary Ghilani, Norma Kent, Northern Virginia Community College, re-enter the work force, reenter the workforce, return to work, stay-at-home mom, stay-at-home parent
Posted in Back to School, Helpful Resources, Updating Skills
Posted in Back to School, Helpful Resources, Updating Skills
Stay-at-Home Mom Returns to Work with Help from Community College
Belinda Nanda Belinda Nanda was a 48-year-old stay-at-home mother of two when she decided it was time to go back to work. She had just signed up her daughters for ice skating lessons and debated signing up, too. But…
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Tagged with: Anderson Consulting, Belinda Nanda, career break, comeback mom, DePaul University, Monster.com, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Oakton Community College, re-enter the work force, re-enter the workforce, reenter the work force, reenter the workforce, relaunch, return to work, stay-at-home mom, University of Illinois
Posted in Back to School, Helpful Resources, Part-time vs. Full-time, Work-Life Balance
Posted in Back to School, Helpful Resources, Part-time vs. Full-time, Work-Life Balance
The Benefits of Your Community College
iStockphoto.com What does your local community college have to offer someone hoping to re-enter the work force after a career break?? Plenty. And probably a whole lot more than you imagined. Affordable tuition is the well-known benefit. But there’s also…
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Posted in Back to School, Helpful Resources
Posted in Back to School, Helpful Resources
Job Search Expenses and Taxes
iStockphoto.com Did you know that if you voluntarily left the work force to care for your children and have been out for more than a year, you cannot deduct your job search expenses when you try to re-enter the work…
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The Workforce for Today’s Young Women
istockphoto.com My daughter is about to head off to college. There’s another good-bye almost every night as each of her friends packs up and leaves. I can’t help but think about my own college years. And those first years thereafter.…
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Being a Role Model to Our Children
istockphoto.com Being a role model to our children can be a motivating factor in a woman’s decision to re-enter the workforce after taking a career break to raise her children. For me, it’s not a primary factor, but it’s certainly…
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Tagged with: career break, re-enter the work force, reenter the workforce, relaunch, return to work, role model, stay-at-home mom, Working Mother
Posted in My Story
Posted in My Story
Are You Ready to Return to Work?
iStockphoto.com This is a tough question. And for any stay-at-home mom who has taken a career break to raise her children, it’s highly personal and wrought with emotion. No two women are alike. (Read my post on this issue from…
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Relaunching One Step at a Time
By Courtney Johns The idea of relaunching can be daunting. There’s so much to do. Update your resume, Update your skills. Update your wardrobe. Find Mary Poppins for the kids, or, at least, a clone for snow days and sick…
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Mommy Guilt & Stress When Re-entering the Work Force
by Peta-de-Aztlan The Good Mother: ”She remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her…
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Tagged with: Ayelet Waldmann, Bad Mother, BlogTalkRadio, career break, Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Colleen Smith, full-time mom, Good Mother, Insight Coaching and Counseling, mommy guilt, perfect mother, re-enter the work force, re-enter the workforce, relaunch, return to work, stay-at-home mom, The Women's Center
Posted in Helpful Resources, The Head Games, Volunteering
Posted in Helpful Resources, The Head Games, Volunteering
Should You Hire a Professional Resume Writer?
iStockphoto.com Writing a resume, especially after an extended career break, can be very daunting. You know you want to re-enter the work force and need a resume to do so, but oftentimes, you may not even know where to start.…
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