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iRelaunch Return to Work Conferences

Don’t miss the iRelaunch Return to Work Conference on October 4th in New York City and on November 30th in Washington, D.C.! This is a great event if you’ve been out of the workforce and are contemplating a return.  I

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Know Your Assets When Looking for a Job

Women re-entering the work force after a career break raising children often under-estimate their value.  So says iRelaunch co-founder Carol Cohen.  And it’s exactly what she found when she helped Tracy Shapiro prepare for her re-entry after a divorce forced

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Keep Your Blog Alive

United Insight To do so, you must post.  And I haven’t done so.  Not in a long while.  Month-and-a-half to be exact.  But you know what, I don’t feel too bad about it. Last week, I was in New York

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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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Are You Ready to Re-Enter the Work Force?

Leslie Simpson Leslie Simpson missed working.  The Massachusetts mother of two boys had quit her job at a small design firm after her first was born and had been home for two years when she first felt the yearning.  By

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Internet Radio

This Can’t Be Happening What’s THE most important thing for hosting an internet radio show?  (This is not a trick question.)  It’s…an internet connection! I learned that the hard way today.  Two minutes before the launch of my inaugural Back

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Back in Force on BlogTalkRadio

BlogTalkRadio Back in Force on BlogTalkRadio is up and running!  Today marked the test show of what I hope will be a weekly program.  Back in Force on BTR will be a show by and for stay-at-home moms who have

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Resources for Updating Skills

FreeStockPhotos.biz One of the biggest concerns voiced by women at Thursday’s Re-Entering the Workforce seminar at the local Women’s Center is technological obsolescence.  It is a valid and very real concern.  But as I’ve written about in previous posts, there

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Black Bag Productions Talks with Back in Force

Listen to internet radio with Black Bag on Blog Talk Radio

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Business Cards

iSTockphotos.com It’s time to get a business card.  I was asked for one several times while working on the Training Source video.  And I didn’t have one. Getting a business card was high on the recommended to-do list at the

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