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Tips for Entering or Re-Entering the Workforce from AARP
Are you thinking about getting a job for the first time or going back to work? If so, does one of these situations sound like yours?
* After being involved with family, volunteering, and community for years, you now want a paid job.
* You’ve been out of the workforce for several years or more, and you want to go back.
* You’ve retired from your main job and now want a different kind of work.
Now’s your chance to match the work you want with what’s out there – or what you can create. Survey yourself first, and then look at job or self-employment prospects.
To see the full article, go to www.aarp.org/money/careers/choosecareer/occupational-info/a2004-06-15-tipsforwkforce.html
Advice on Reentering the Workforce from MetLife
So you’re ready to jump back into the job market. What have you been doing since you left the work force? Perhaps you’ve been home raising a family or enjoying the leisure of retirement. Now you’re ready to get back to work, but you’re afraid you may no longer be marketable. This article will provide useful tips on how to proceed with your job search.
To read the complete article, go to www.metlife.com/Applications/Corporate/WPS/CDA/PageGenerator/0,4773,P2354,00.html
Reentering the Workforce by Parents.com
Soon after his first child was born in 1987, David Boylan quit work. During the next 10 years, as he cared for his two children, he never once yearned for his former life as an actor. “I was more than willing to sacrifice my career for the kids,” says Boylan, 49, of Glen Ellyn, IL. “Fatherhood brought out unbelievably powerful emotions in me.”
To see the full article, go to www.parents.com/family-life/work-money-politics/work-life-balance/reentering-the-workforce/.
The Existential Crisis of the Wait-at-Home Mom By Vicki Glembocki
The first generation of Philly women who “opted out” in order to stay home with their kids is now ready for what’s next. Trouble is, opting back in can be pretty scary when you aren’t even sure who you are anymore
THEIR KIDS ARE in school. Their husbands are at work. It’s 10 o’clock on a Friday morning, and these women have nothing they need to do.
Sure, they could be playing tennis. Or organizing the silent auction for the Lower Merion High fund-raiser. Or calling their friends to meet them in a few hours for lunch at Du Jour in Haverford. They aren’t, though.
They’re doing yoga.
But this isn’t their mamas’ yoga. This is serious, sweating, handstanding yoga. This is guy-playing-the-drums-and-chanting yoga. And the nine women — most in their late 40s — practicing at Jai Yoga on Montgomery Avenue in Narberth aren’t resting in child’s pose. No, they’re bending and twisting and inhaling deep into their abdomens, trying to quiet their troubled minds as they face the front of the dimly lit, caramel-colored studio where two red, glowing Buddhas hang on the wall, staring back at them.
It’s no surprise that they’re thin and coiffed and pedicured, or that they’re sporting ginormous diamond rings, and outfits by the high-end line Beyond Yoga (with its odd but appropriate slogan “I Am Beyond”) that they probably purchased in the boutique downstairs, along with their VitaminWater. Many of them are, after all, stay-at-home-moms on the Main Line, and have been for the past 10 years. Or 15 years. Or 20 years.
They haven’t always been stay-at-home moms, though. They used to be career women, with big degrees and big-paying jobs, 120 percent committed and on their way up. But when kids came along, they decided to give it all up to stay home and raise their families, 120 percent committed to that. Now the kids are pretty much raised, and these women are the only members of their families who are really at home anymore. They’ve become, instead, wait-at-home moms — waiting for the kids to come back from school or soccer practice or their friends’ houses, waiting to cook dinner, waiting to help with college applications, waiting to remind them it’s time to go to bed. Waiting, in essence, to be useful.
To see the full article, go to:
www.phillymag.com/articles/the_existential_crisis_of_the_wait_at_home_mom/
October 30, 2006 Article at www.msmoney.com
Women re-entering the job market after time off for childrearing, a leave of absence, or retirement face special concerns. Depending on how long it’s been since you were employed outside the home, you may have to deal not only with your emotional barriers (Am I too old? Will anyone want to hire me?) but also with logistical concerns such as updating your skills, presenting your time off in a positive light, and jump-starting your network of fellow professionals.
To read the full article go to:
www.msmoney.com/mm/career/transitions/reenter_workforce/reenter_workforce_intro.htm
Reentering the Workforce Takes Courage & Commitment
Published: April 4, 2004
By Marilyn Moats Kennedy
You’ve been unemployed, underemployed, on sabbatical, rearing children – somewhere other than the workplace for five or more years, and now you’ve decided to rejoin the paid employed. Understand that in all likelihood your first position back will be a transitional job unless you’ve been diligent about keeping up with your industry, your contacts and your continuing education. (Most people don’t because that is a full-time job.) Your goal is to find a decent job that will be the start of your career renaissance. What are the basic steps necessary to transition back?
To read the full article go to www.jobjournal.com/article_full_text.asp?artid=1098
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