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Team Spotlight: Colleen Olson

Hello! I’m Colleen Olson, a member of the iRelaunch Business Development team. I built my career at the Harlem Globetrotters organization and truly enjoyed my time traveling the world with the sports entertainment icons. When it was time to start my own family, I made the tough decision to pause…

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Five Books Every Relauncher Should Read in 2022

With 2022 almost around the corner, December is a wonderful time to fine tune your relaunch plans and set your next career in action. As a life and business coach, I am asked countless times for the top books I recommend to my clients. My office bookcases are brimming with…

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A Year in Review: Defining Moments in 2021

2021 was yet another record-breaking and defining year for iRelaunch. We doubled the size of our team over the last two years in order to serve the explosion in employer demand for new career reentry programs and the scaling of existing programs. We advised dozens of leading global employers on…

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New Year...New Job?

What’s your New Year’s resolution? Is this the year for you to relaunch your career? Before you jump headfirst into a job search, taking a step back and focusing on why you’re considering returning to the workforce, what you’re looking for in that next position and what you need to…

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The Top 5 Skills That Will Future-Proof Your Career

We live in a highly digitized and connected world. The European Commission has estimated that 90% of today’s jobs require at least a basic level of digital skills — and that doesn’t even begin to address the level of technical skills needed for high-earning positions.

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Accelerate Your Relaunch with The Acceleration Project

Many professionals who are looking to relaunch their careers wonder how they can return to an increasingly competitive job market. They worry they don’t have the confidence, skills and network to find the right job, and there are few opportunities that allow them to achieve the work/life balance they are…

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Team Spotlight: Petra Beck

Hi, I’m Petra M. Beck. I work with the Operations team at iRelaunch in podcast production and other projects where I might lend a hand. I’ve been with the iRelaunch team in some capacity since 2018, at first as Social Media Manager of their local Pittsburgh FB group (now consolidated…

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Employer interest in relauncher talent is at an all time high

“Change” is the driver and emerged as the theme for this year’s Summit. Mature programs are being reimagined; programs are experimenting with defined cohorts, “loose” cohorts, and “rolling admissions” or switching from returnship to direct hire models. Each option has advantages and challenges and discussing them in detail is a…

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Not a transgender woman engineer, not a woman engineer, but an engineer

For transgender people starting a new job or reentering the workforce, in addition to the usual challenge of getting up to speed of a new job, there is also the challenge of still having to learn the nuances of social and professional interactions in their new lived gender. Transgender…

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6 Ways to Refresh Your Return-To-Work Strategy

For relaunchers, spring can be an opportunity to refresh, reset and refocus your return-to-work strategy. Here are six ways to renew your commitment to your job search, and to help you plan, prepare, and execute effectively on your next steps.

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