Back on the Career Track’s Blog
By Back on the Career Track Last updated: Mon Nov 23, 2009 5:22am PST-
Lisa Chenofsky Singer
Career Coach Lisa Chenofsky Singer leads our Relaunch Circles Return to Work Coaching Program in New Jersey. Here she writes for the Millburn-Short Hills Patch about how to begin the relaunch process. This article is reprinted in its entirety below. The original piece can be accessed here.
You want to relaunch your career, but how do you do it?
GUEST POST by Lisa Chenofsky Singer
Dear Career Coach Lisa,
How do I begin my journey of re-entering the work force either on a part-time or job-sharing basis? Although I have kept up with my professional journals and conferences, I have not worked in my field for the past several years.
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At iRelaunch's "Career Relaunch Forum" held at Seton Hall University last week, co-founders, Carol Fishman Cohen and Vivian Steir Rabin, delivered one powerful message to the nearly sold-out crowd of 150+ attendees: YOU can relaunch your professional career after a hiatus at home.
No matter if headhunters dismiss you.
No matter why you left in the first place.
No matter how long the hiatus.
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NY Working Moms Examiner Amy Impellizzeri interviews Back on the Career Track co-author Carol Fishman Cohen about returning to work after a career break. Amy's first question to Carol focuses on what motivates women to return to work. Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (0) | Blog
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We told our Relaunch Success Story to the Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Women Financial Advisors Forum. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney is hiring financial advisors across the country and they are interested in women relaunchers -- women who are returning to work after a career break -- for this role. Read More »
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By Vivian Steir Rabin
With kids back in school, this is the time of year that many mothers think about going back to work, or “relaunching” their careers as we call it; this year perhaps more than ever before. Although the job market is tight, we’ve heard from relaunchers all over the country who have found (or created) opportunities in this market, despite the difficult economy. I’ve been wondering . . . what distinguishes these women from other stay-at-home moms seeking to return to work? Are they extremely brilliant or well-connected? Although some of the women we’ve heard from do fall into these categories, the majority are regular folks whose qualifications are not particularly extraordinary. But they all shared one important trait: Read More »
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As one who chronicles return to work stories in every field, I was particularly inspired by Clijsters "relaunch," as my co-author Vivian Steir Rabin and I call the process of transitioning from home to work after a career break. Most of us don't relaunch our careers at Arthur Ashe Stadium before over 23,000 people, and Clijsters explained afterward she expected her comeback to be a bit more gradual. "I just wanted to start these three tournaments and get back into the rhythm of playing tennis and get used to the surroundings again."- Let’s talk: Comment (1) | Blog
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by Carol Fishman Cohen
Update: Kim Clijsters won the U.S. Open, beating Caroline Wozniacki 7-5, 6-3 to become the second mother to win a major since Evonne Goolagong Cawley in 1980 at Wimbledon.
Last night's U.S. Open Semi Final match between Kim Clijsters and Serena Williams may have ended on a controversial note, but there was no mistaking Clijsters' strong and stunning performance following a two-year break from the pro circuit after the birth of her daughter. We've been tracking her progress closely as she's been winning her way through the U.S. Open's earlier rounds, including her victory over tennis great Venus Williams.
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Several weeks ago, my iRelaunch co-founder Carol Cohen wrote a blog about nurses returning to work after a career break. For some reason, the blog unleashed a torrent of comments, mostly from young nurses complaining about old nurses or old nurses complaining about young nurses. While reading the comments trashing “the older generation,” I couldn’t help but reflect on the wisdom I have gained from my father, an 84-year-old businessman who is still working and thriving. So, without further ado, I present five lessons from my father.
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Katja Presnal’s online store Skimbaco.com got an unexpected PR jolt in May, 2008, when Tom Cruise pointed out his daughter Suri’s cute ladybug shoes from the Skimbaco site while giving Oprah a televised house tour. The Cruises had received them from a friend as part of a holiday gift package Katja had assembled. Katja's PR challenge was to let the media world know those shoes came from her store, which she did with a successful word of mouth campaign using social media. Several media outlets contacted Katja, who had been in business just over a year, and fifty websites covered the story. Read More »
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As I approached my 60th birthday I decided that I couldn’t wait any longer for someone to say yes to me. I signed on with a print-on-demand publisher to self-publish my novel Mrs. Lieutenant based on my own experiences as a new Mrs. Lieutenant in May 1970 during the Vietnam War. And just at this time my novel was named a semi-finalist in the 2008 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Each one of the semi-finalists was given a page on Amazon, and I discovered that one semi-finalist had something on her page that I didn’t. What that turned out to be was a blog – something that in January of 2008 I hadn’t even heard of. This was an epiphany moment for me. Read More »
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