All Entries in the "Moms Returning to Work" Category
Part 1: Can I Outsource My Job Search From Go To Whoa?
Can a busy working mom outsource her job hunt, getting someone to find the job, do the research and even write a cover letter and resume? Find out. Dear Aunt Jobby, I desperately want to find another job. Because I fear losing my current job, I am working so hard that I don’t have time to look [...]
Surviving summer: Five weeks down, five to go
Call me a bitch, but I say 10 weeks of summer vacation is an anachronism and unfair to us working moms. It is now week six of summer vacation, and I am not quite a wreck. When I think of summer vacations, I remember endless days hanging about in a gang of kids. Swimming a [...]
Got a Little Black Hole In Your Resume?
Dear Aunt Jobby, I am rewriting my resume but don’t really know how to deal with a resume gap that occurred a long time ago. About 10 years ago, after a long period of job hunting, I finally landed a job. Within a day, I knew it wasn’t going to work. Within a week, I [...]
Ready to return to work? Questions to help moms decide
When are you ready to go back to work after having a kid? Some moms are itching to get back to work within weeks, others take years and some never want to return to work after having kids. Others want something very different from work post-children. A friend, who has two children, and I were [...]
Lay-off Trackers: Do Not Send Resumes Here!
The recession has spawned a growth industry in lay-off tracking sites, which provide a weird and wonderful array of intelligence for any mom looking for work (or any mom’s husband, son, etc.). Use these sites to find out where the hot, and ice cold, spots are in your industry or area, or to inform your [...]
Dear Aunt Jobby: Should I Dumb Down Resume?
Dear Aunt Jobby I’ve been out of work for six months. I used to work in marketing for one of those big financial institutions that are now owned by the Government, he he. I am 43, with two teenagers who eat a mountain of food each week, and a big mortgage. I’ve been job hunting every [...]
131 Action Verbs That’ll Get You Hired – Part 2
Updated July 1, 2009 Resumes for moms Think about adding strong verbs to your resume to get hired. My view: Many women underplay their successes, hesitant to make strong statements about their achievements. Career coach Catherine Palmiere of Adam Personnel says many people submit lame resumes that don’t use strong verbs to show their achievement or [...]
Inside story: What parents don’t ask about childcare but should …
Choosing a child care center sucks. Most working parents don’t know what to look for or ask about, beyond the most obvious. And West Virginia child care center director, Laura X, who didn’t want to be identified, said parents are often concerned about the wrong things. What are the things parents should ask about, but [...]
Time for day care – update 1 the search begins
As you may have read in my previous post, the search for day care has begun for my now 15 month old daughter. First, let me begin by thanking everyone who gave me great questions and things to look for when choosing a facility. It was a huge help and made me actually sound knowledgeable. [...]
Ask Aunt Jobby: When Job Interviews Get Hot And Sweaty
Got a career question you’d like Aunt Jobby to answer? If she doesn’t know the answer, she’ll get an expert to answer any mom’s question about returning to work, finding a job, managing work and family issues or even negotiating the tricky waters at work. Q: I have a job interview next week. But it [...]
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