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Interview Advice

"After spending time at home with my baby, I am ready to go back to work and have been actively interviewing. Given the fields that I am looking at, having taken time off is often a deal breaker. I find that most interviewers (predominantly male) do not look favorably upon…

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How To Answer "Are You Willing to Relocate?"

If you haven't thought about how you'll answer this question, it's time you do. According to an Indeed.com survey, 45 percent of people who relocated within the past year (2017 stats) did so for occupational reasons—either for long-term career prospects or for a job offer they couldn't resist. Determining whether…

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Volunteer Your Way into the Workforce

Cathy P. was a medical social worker who took a 17-year career break, waiting until her second child entered college before she began the process of returning to work. Still interested in the medical social work field, Cathy started back by working as a volunteer in a hospice. She hadn't…

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Stretching Your Negotiation Muscles for Pay and Benefits

Reentering the work world has you dusting off many talents you have not used in awhile. Happily, negotiating is not one of them. Everyone negotiates. You just might not call it that. Times that most of us can relate to negotiating are family gatherings, be it Thanksgiving, Fourth of July,…

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Why Mindfulness is Important for Relaunchers

A job search under the best conditions is stressful. The COVID-19 pandemic has exponentially increased the amount of stress relaunchers are dealing with, and that stress can have a significant effect on your health, your resilience, and ultimately your relaunch. Adopting a mindfulness practice can fundamentally change how you deal…

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Creating Relaunch Advocates

Networking should be more than just a bunch of coffees and random lunches in hopes of getting a job. Networking should be about creating advocates, meaning you want to find someone who is willing to utilize their “professional capital” on you and therefore recommend and champion you.

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The value of skills-based volunteering

I decided to retire early to spend more time with my family before my two children headed off to college. For over two decades, my husband, Dave and I juggled fulfilling and demanding careers while raising active children and had become master planners. Astutely anticipating my temptation to respond to…

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Interval training while relaunching?

Have you ever started out your day with the best of intentions, promising yourself that you are going to finally finish the resume, reach out to ten contacts, and then, somehow, the time passes by, and you find yourself feeling defeated at the end of the day? And then perhaps…

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Scripts & Dialogues Series - Part 1

Introducing the iRelaunch Scripts & Dialogues™ Series... where we answer questions from our relauncher community about what to write and what to say when relaunching, Part 1 covers the topics of answering the "tell me about yourself" question and how to talk about your career break in an interview

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Scripts & Dialogues Series - Part 4

In part 4 of the Scripts & Dialogues™ Series, where we answer questions from our relauncher community about what to write and what to say when relaunching, we show you how to connect on LinkedIn before or after meeting a colleague, client, or other person at a conference, event or…

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