How To Ask For Help With Your Job Search
How To Ask For Help With Your Job Search Ever feel weird about asking someone for help with your job search? I encourage you to think differently about asking for help. Maybe one of these things has happened to you: You are applying to a job at a company and you know...
Finding The Right Job Fit As You Restart Your Career
Finding The Right Job Fit As You Restart Your Career Finding the right fit for you job is critical, especially if you are a career re-starter. In fact, we all know how important it is to find the right fit - with your friends, your job, even your clothes, and...
Lessons In Restarting Your Career
Moms, Learn from These Lessons In Restarting Your Career Today I want to share 4 big lessons in restarting a career that I’ve learned over the past 8 years from my own personal experience of returning to work after a career break and that of the hundreds of women I’ve...
Keep Track of Your Career Break Activities
Keep Track of Your Career Break Activities While you are on a career break, it’s critical that you keep a list of things you’re doing that will help you make the case that you are a better employee because of your break. Let's talk about tracking your career break...
Greatest Hits: Job Search for Moms
Job Search Tips for Moms Returning to Work Calling all Moms doing a job search to return to work after a career break! This is an exciting life change for you and Back to Business is here to guide you through it. Here is a quick list of our job search tips for Moms...
How Do Moms Returning to Work Get Started?
How Do Moms Returning To Work Get Started? Let's Get Started! I get this question a lot from moms who want to return to work after a career break. Some of them are unsure of how to get started because they’re planning to return to a career that’s different from the...
Reasons to Return to Work After A Career Break
Reasons to Return To Work After A Career Break There are so many reasons why returning to work after a career break can be a positive experience for you, your children, and your spouse. Independence. Role Modeling. Responsibility. Additional Income. These are just a...
How to Conduct a Successful Informational Interview
Informational Interviews Can Accelerate Your Job Search You’ve heard of the informational interview, and you may have thought these were just for kids looking for their first job out of college. Think again! Informational interviews are an essential component of your...
Moms, Here’s How to Know if You’re Ready to Go Back to Work
Moms, how do you know if you're ready to go back to work? As with many of the choices we make as moms, determining if I was ready to go back to work was a decision that affected others besides just myself and that made it somewhat difficult. Here's how I knew I was a...
Finding the Growth In a Tough Job Market
Finding a Job In a Tough Job Market Let's be honest: this is a tough job market! If you pay attention to the news and the economic data that keeps coming out, it’s downright confusing about where the economy is headed and how long it might take until it turns around....
A Career Relaunch Success Story at RTI International
Everybody loves a good career relaunch success story, and today I'm sharing the story of career relauncher Jolie Taylor. She's a Senior Financial Analyst at RTI, who happens to be the gold sponsor of the Back to Business Women's Conference in 2022. Jolie spent 8 years...
Should I Discount Myself? How To Ask For The Right Salary As You Return To The Workforce
Should I discount myself? I recently got this question from a woman I was working with in my group coaching course. She was thinking about what she would name as her compensation requirements in an interview. She knew what her (quite impressive) skills and experience...
Keep It Simple
This post is going to be a short one, because my theme is: Keep It Simple So here it is, everything I want to say about keeping it simple in 2 sentences: Your goal is to return to work after taking a career break. In order to do that, you need to know what the skill...
Time Management For Job Seekers
I recently met with a group of job seekers and asked everyone to share their biggest challenge about their job search. Do you know what the majority of them named as their biggest challenge? Time Management! Let's break that down. The challenges that everyone...
Credit Suisse Real Returns – The Inside Scoop From 4 Participants
I promised you we’d dig deep into Credit Suisse’s Real Returns program and I’m about to deliver on that promise big-time! Back to Business conducted interviews with 4 Real Returns participants and they have given us some great insight into what it’s like to...