A practical game plan for getting back to work after parental leave.
'I want to go back to work.'
No matter what your story, your reasons, your philosophy, chances are that if you're a mum, one day you'll find yourself saying a version of those words. And then wondering how you'll make it happen. This is a practical game plan, designed to get you back into work and help you stay there.
With excellent tips and advice on how to: make your job work for you negotiate flexible hours start a whole new career Career Mums will show you how to get the best out of both worlds.
Kate Sykes is the founder of careermums.com.au, Australia's first dedicated careers centre and jobs board for working parents and parents returning to work. She also runs a recruitment business called Lift – liftrecruitment.com.au – and is a workforce planning specialist, working with businesses to implement flexible workplace policies and strategies for retaining parents after parental leave. She is a member of AHRI (Australian Human Resources Institute), the chair of the Canberra Business Council's Workstyles Committee, and 2010/11 Telstra ACT Business Woman of the Year.
Allison Tait is an experienced journalist who has been writing for books, magazines and newspapers for more than twenty years. Her list of writing credits includes magazines such as Marie Claire, Madison, Vogue Australia, CLEO, Cosmopolitan and Sunday Life, as well as newspapers including The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sunday Telegraph, and ninemsn's Finance and Careers websites, kidspot.com.au and other sites. She is the author of Credit Card Stressbusters: Slash your credit card debt in 90 days (Wrightbooks), and documents her life as a writer and mother of two on her blog, lifeinapinkfibro.blogspot.com.
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