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Julie Power is a writer and editor with experience in both the United States and Australia. After living in the United States for 16 years, she recently returned to live in Sydney with her husband and twin boys (9 years old). Follow @juliepower
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Thanks for visiting MomstoWork. Our tagline is Because all mothers work! We want to make your work more enjoyable, easier and more rewarding. What can you find on our site? Tips on crafting a resume or a cover letter to help you find a new job or return to work after a gap. News and [...]
E-mail sign offs: What do you say? Tell us
How do you sign off an e-mail? Have you ever added a kiss or slurpy sign off to a professional e-mail by mistake? Have you ever signed off with the ubiquitous, “All The Best,” in a email to a friend and got the finger in return? photo © 2005 sophie & cie | more info(via: [...]
15 Ways To Find a Job Using Twitter
You can’t afford to skip Twitter if you are a job seeker. These days, the social media network acts as a mega job aggregator, bringing together thousands of recruiters, job sites and job hunters. Twitter can fast-track a job search if you’re a mom returning to work after a gap at home, a SAHM who [...]
Happy Halloween: May you be stapled and stuck to the office wall (not)
Happy Halloween MomstoWork readers. Here’s the perfect stapler for that scary day when you reenter the workforce or decide to quit a job to start your own business, etc. Check out our growing library of info on resumes and cover letters, plus other career advice and tips. Stapler is by Pylones, one of my favorite [...]
Slobby mommies unite
Slobproof book giveaway plus freebies and furniture Are you a slob? I am. As a busy working mom with two kids, a full-time job, a healthy interest in socializing, reading, exercising, cooking and blogging, something has to give. That big horrifying Halloweenish thing is The Housework. When I first heard The Slob Queen, as I [...]
Blind copy e-mail etiquette: Attack of the Passive Aggressors
“Dear Aunt Jobby Here’s something I really, really hate at work: blind copy (BCC) e-mail sneaks and weasels who don’t copy something using the e-mail CC field. Instead, they BCC their bosses to show that they’re doing the right thing. I call them the BC-Byotches and Bastards. Some of them are doing this to cover their [...]
Stopping bullies: One cartoon at a time
Bullying and cyberbullying have eclipsed kidnapping as parents’ greatest fear, according to a national survey commissioned by Care.com. According to Wendy Sachs, writing on the Huffington Post, nearly one in three parents of children ages 12-17 agree that bullying is a more serious concern than other dangers, including domestic terrorism, car accidents and suicide. At [...]
Healthy foods and healthy kids equal sane mom
If my kids eat badly, I feel guilty. And if they eat badly, their behavior deteriorates and I feel to blame. Several nights of fast food, and I’m blaming myself for their failure to get that Rhodes Scholarship 20 years from now. Ridiculous but true. It seems some of you carry the same mountain of [...]
The cycle of infertility … don’t wait to get help
“Mom, did you hold your dead babies?” That’s what one of my sons asked recently when we were talking about why he and his twin brother don’t have other siblings. No, I didn’t hold them. But his question made me wonder whether I should have, especially when it came to a baby I lost at [...]
6 Ways To Network Yourself Back To Work
Networking may be the best way for a mom looking to return to work to find a job in “today’s faceless, virtual world,” says Maribeth Kuzmeski, author of The Connectors: How the World’s Most Successful Businesspeople Build Relationships and Win Clients for Life. The trick is taking these encounters to the next level. Many moms [...]
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