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How to Approach and Explain Your Career Gap

Embrace it – Don’t Let it Define You

Monica, one of my new clients, wants to relaunch her career in the legal field, after a five-year hiatus during which she focused on raising her children. She is nervous about this gap in...

Cover Letters & References After a Break

Describing your career gap to potential...

“I’ve been out of the workforce for several years,” a reader e-mailed me. "Should I address the gap...
A Positive Perspective Goes a Long Way

5 steps to a new outlook on your relaunch (and...

At this time of year, a little over seven years ago, I had just returned from a two-day seminar at...
Consider Social Security

Guest blogger Kathryn Sollmann discusses some...

An excerpt from Kathryn's blog, 9 Lives for Women: "Too often, though, women—and particularly their...
Starting A Business Post-Break

Three Women's Entrepreneurial Relaunches

We've been following return-to-work stories since 2001 when my co-author, Vivian Steir Rabin,...
100% Complete LinkedIn Profile

Get noticed on LinkedIn! A complete profile...

Watch this quick video to find out how recruiters use information on LinkedIn profiles.
Five-Minute "I-Hate-to-Cook Suppers"

Quick and easy dinners make work/life balance...

I don’t know anyone who hates cooking as much as I do so the major criteria of these supper recipes...
"The House is Messier and I Don't Care...

Wisdom from Return-to-Work Moms (My Guest Blog...

Ten years ago when Vivian Steir Rabin and I were doing the research for our career reentry strategy...
Announcing: The First Comprehensive List of...
by Carol Fishman CohenPrograms for those on career break interested in returning to work have been...
Empty Nester? Get a Gig!
Guest blog by Kris Hintz, Founder of Position U 4 College We Baby Boomers, the intensity...
After Two-Year Break, Kim Clijsters SHINES as U.S...
by Carol Fishman CohenJust hours after I posted the piece below about Kim Clijsters' semi-final...

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A 5-Phase online workbook and support program to help you go from relaunch readiness assessment to negotiating your benefits package. Your self-paced tool for returning to work. 

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Success Stories

Milbert Kiggundu-Bentham

Success Stories

Motivation, inspiration and ideas to shape your own story. Find your role models.


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"The Bible of Career Reentry"

"The Bible of Career Reentry"

"Cohen and Rabin have hit the nail on the head with this thorough, well-written, step-by-step relaunch guide..."
-Library Journal, starred review

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