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Returning to work requires you to set goals.  But the goal, get a job, is daunting.  Breaking this goal into smaller, managable steps makes progress easier and more measurable.  For example, for me, the first step toward returning to work was to go back to school.
Here are some simple methods to help [...]

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A 2007 study, Women Matter, by McKinsey & Company, concludes that companies with a greater percentage of women in top management perform the best.  McKinsey evaluated the organisational excellence of 231 public and private companies and correlated it with each companies financial performance and gender diversity.  The study found that companies with three or more [...]

Changes in the workforce are making returning to work for college-educated, experienced professionals easier according to a recent WSJ article by Toddi Gutner. Many corporate recruiters recognize the coming reduction in the workforce caused by the retirement of baby boomers and are paying increased attention to work/life balance necessary to attract Gen X & Y workers.     
The legal, financial, marketing and consulting [...]

Each year Working Mother magazine selects its top 100 best companies for working mothers.  The top 10 are listed here:

Baptist Health South Florida
Booz Allen Hamilton
Ernst & Young
General Mills
IBM
KPMG
The McGraw-HIll Companies
PricewaterhouseCoopers
UBS
Wachovia 

Working Mother evaluates seven criteria to define its top 100; workforce profile; compensation; child care; flexibility; time off & leaves; family-friendly programs; and company culture.  Flexibility [...]

 
 
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I have been back in school for six months and it has not been without some struggle on the home front.  Work/life balance is more like work, work, work, maybe someday I’ll have a life. 
My family handles more of their lives without me or at most with me in my office reminding everyone [...]

In this msnbc video, NBC reporter Rehema Ellis profiles two moms who returned to work via the mom-recruiting agency Mom Corps.  Leslie Morgan Steiner, author of the Mommy Wars, offers tips for women returning to work.  Here is a summary of her advice:
1.  Get determined to go back to work and don’t second-guess yourself.
2.  Invest in yourself with needed [...]

For those of you that would like to read my interview with Vivian, here it is.
With me today is Vivian Steir Rabin, co-author of the book, Back on the Career Track.  Vivian is a Harvard MBA who runs her own executive search business and consults on the topic of career reentry.  She is the mother of five [...]

I spoke with Vivian Steir Rabin, author of Back on the Career Track. We discussed the current marketplace for women returning to work and she offered some great advice on handling resume gaps, networking and making the back to work transition easier for your family.  Give it a listen.

Ruth shares more of her story, discussing the benefits and drawbacks of going back to work.  Not surprisingly, work-life balance is a primary concern.  Pride, appreciation and recognition are the biggest benefits.
What are the benefits (besides financial) to working again?
I know I am appreciated in a much different way.  I am told I am appreciated [...]

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Just how hard is it do re-enter the work force? In the past few years there have been articles and research saying it has gotten easier and there have been articles and research that said it is hard or just not feasible for women to successfully return to their professional careers after [...]