There are five ways to re-enter the work force after a career break: Go back to your old job Find a different job with your previous employer Find a new job with a new employer Go back to school to…
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Starting a Business to Re-Enter the Work Force
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Posted in Entrepreneurship, Helpful Resources
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Helpful Resources
Discrimination Against Unemployed Workers
iStockphoto.com Guest post by Mary Ghilani, Director of Career Services at Luzerne County Community College in Pennsylvania I recently read an article by Allison Doyle on About.com, about the growing number of employers posting ads that refuse to consider unemployed…
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Posted in Back to School, Helpful Resources, Updating Skills, Volunteering
Posted in Back to School, Helpful Resources, Updating Skills, Volunteering
Career Services at Community Colleges
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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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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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
Finding Your Work-Life Balance
©iStockphoto.com/RTimages Can you name your values? You know, the things that are most important to you. Have you ever really even thought about it? I hadn’t, really, until I read career coach Julie Cohen’s book “Your Work, Your Life…Your Way.“ …
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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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Return to College to Launch New Career
Suzanne Offit The kids are back in school!!! For many stay-at-home parents, the return to school means the return to normalcy, albeit an often hectic one with activities and homework. But for a growing segment of the adult population, fall…
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When Our Children Leave Home
iStockphoto.com I recently discovered I have something in common with cows. We both grieve when our children leave us. We spent the Labor Day weekend in the countryside outside Culpeper, VA. Our only visible neighbors were a herd of cows…
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Posted in My Story
Posted in My Story
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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