by Liz O’Donnell (Boston)
Stay at home mothers (SAHMs) are looking for work and facing some good news/bad news. A combination of factors is sending these SAHMs back to work. Some need to replace the income of spouses who have been laid off. Others need the additional money to combat increased living costs. And still others [...]
‘Returners’ Category
February 17th, 2009, 1:06 pm
Bumps on the On Ramp
January 20th, 2009, 1:00 pm
Making a Comeback
by Liz O’Donnell (Boston)
The women in The Comeback have one thing in common: none of them had planned to leave work but at some point they all made the decision to go back. I spoke recently with Keller about what she learned from writing the book and what advice she had for women looking [...]
September 3rd, 2008, 12:45 pm
Merrill Lynch Providing Professional Women an Opportunity for Greater Returns
by Pamela Weinsaft (New York City)
The management team at Merrill Lynch was puzzled. While it was clear that Merrill Lynch was recruiting its fair share of the most promising women from campuses around the world and developing that talent, the number of women dropped at each successive level up the corporate ladder. [...]
August 19th, 2008, 1:30 pm
Mentoring My Boss: The View From Down Here
by Valerie Poulin (Toronto)
When I decided to return to life as an employee after a decade of freelance and contract work, I thought that it would be tough to find get back into the swing of things. But while I dreaded leaving behind the freedom and flexibility of the freelance life, [...]
July 8th, 2008, 11:00 am
Are You Ready to OnRamp?
Contributed by Catherine Clifford of YourOnRamp.com
Are you a woman who took a career break and is now eager to find your next path? Are you looking for career inspiration and flexible work options? Is the thought of brushing up your résumé and going on an interview overwhelming? You may not want to return [...]
June 17th, 2008, 11:44 am
Dressing Your Resume For Success
By: Kathryn Sollmann, Co-founder Women@Work Network
Most women know what to wear to give the right impression in the right situation. Yet, even many women who spend thousands of dollars on each season’s fashions present themselves as paupers on resume paper.
At Women@Work we call it the “under-dressed” resume — resumes that don’t look right, sound right [...]
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