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Introducing @MomsToWorkJobs on Twitter
Introducing @MomsToWorkJobs on Twitter. Follow MomsToWorkJobs for information about job openings in your area and across the United States. We’ll tweet about flexible, family friendly, telecommute, virtual, remote, consulting, contract, part time, temporary, seasonal, hourly work and more. Follow @MomsToWorkJobs Follow Moms To Work on Twitter @MomsToWork.
NEW! MomsToWork Job Board
photo credit: carianoff Are you a mom who is thinking about going back to work? Are you looking for a new family friendly job? Or are you curious about career development? On MomsToWork, we write about women and work, and we realize that job boards are just one tool to be used during a job [...]
Need Some Quick Resume Feedback? Grade It.
Everyone has gone through it. You’ve written…and rewritten…and yet again rewritten your resume. You’ve read our tips on resume writing. You’ve added action verbs, spell checked and grammar checked, but you need some quick feedback. Here’s where RezScore can help. RezScore is a recently launched service that scores your resume based on brevity, impact and [...]
Women still earn less despite other gains, says White House report
photo credit: imperiousimages The report, Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being, released yesterday, is said by the White House to be the most comprehensive report on the state of women in 50 years. There is nothing surprising really in the report. Most of us know the data. What is surprising, shocking and [...]
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How Did You Describe Any Gap In Your Resume?
How did you describe the gap in your resume when you stayed home to look after children? Did you use a term like “domestic engineer” in your resume when you were job hunting? Or did you leave it blank? Read HR exec Kristen Clark’s advice: she left a gap that she later regretted. She’s even [...]
RIP Ann Taylor
Here’s something that could explain the gazillions (well, a lot) of comments we’ve got responding to our post: Ann Taylor, Ann Taylor, why do you suck so much? We weren’t imagining it. Ann Taylor has abandoned the corporate world of professional clothing and suits for working women, aiming its marketing at younger, more “fashion-forward” youngsters [...]
Best places for working moms to work
If you are a stay-at-home (SAHM) mom thinking about going back to work, or a working mom or dad trying to switch jobs, add the 2010 Working Mother 100 Best Companies list to your research. It gives a description of each company’s policies, the number of women among top earners, etc. Each profile includes an [...]
CurrentMom and 168 Hours: Go back-to-school without the back-to-crazy
If your kids aren’t back at school already (if that’s the case, you have my sympathy), they soon will be. Today I am listening to the Go Back-to-school without the Back-to-Crazy Webinar presented by Laura Vanderkam of 168 hours book and blog fame and Current Mom’s Katherine Lewis. And I am going to attempt to [...]
Stay At Home Mom Returning To Work: How Moms Can Take The First Step
This guest post is by Nancy Anderson, the author of Job Search for Moms. A resume is NOT the beginning for moms starting a job search, says Nancy Anderson When deciding whether to jump back into the workforce, many women think all they need is an updated resume. Unfortunately, they get to the first heading, [...]
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