Returnships
Getting back to work after a long career break
Returning to work after many years away can be a daunting prospect. Your skills feel out of date and it can be hard to know where to begin. However, many employers now offer Return to Work programmes or ‘Returnships’, which act as a bridge back to a roles for those who have taken extended career breaks. In this Pod, we look at how Returnships work and explore lots of other strategies, tips and ideas to help you start thinking about getting back to work with renewed confidence and a sense of excitement.
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“She’s back”: Your Guide to Returning to Work
(47 mins)
In this podcast, Gemma McCrae talks to “She’s Back” author Lisa Unwin about how women can return to work after a career break. She gives her top tips on what to do and how to do it. Lisa Unwin is the founder of She’s Back, a business whose purpose is to enable business to access the unique talent in women returning to work after an extended career break.
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Women at Work
(53 mins)
A World Economic Forum report from 2015 found that a large number of countries “have failed to reap the returns on a pool of highly educated and skilled women”. To discuss why that is and how returning to work can be made better for women, Kathy Sheridan was joined by Karin Lanigan, the Manager of Career Development and Recruitment Services for Chartered Accountants Ireland and Elaine Russell, career coach with Women Returners Ireland.
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Returnships: Tricia Driver
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Coming back into the tech industry from a career break can seem like a daunting task. Select companies like CapGemini have begun returnship programs, internship-like support programs aimed at getting talented technologists back into work. Tricia Driver joins us to teach us more about the structure of these programs and what those on a career break should look for when coming back.
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How to get back to work after a career break
(11 mins)
If you’ve taken a career break and are now looking to return to the workforce, would you consider taking an internship? Career reentry expert Carol Fishman Cohen thinks you should. In this talk, hear about Cohen’s own experience returning to work after a career break, her work championing the success of “relaunchers” and how employers are changing how they engage with return-to-work talent.
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What are returnships and how do they work?
(3 mins)
Returnships – returning professional internships – are schemes which help women who’ve had a career break get back into the workplace. But what’s the best approach – for both returnees and employers?
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Return to work programmes
(3 mins)
Dominie Moss, Founder of The Return Hub talks about routes to return to work after a career break.
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6 tips for getting hired after a career break
+Have you taken a career break to start a family, taken time out following a redundancy or temporary retirement? Here are six effective tips to help increase your chances of getting hired following a career break.
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