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5 Strategic approaches to getting the best from yourself

How can returners ensure their getting the best from themselves? To deliver results we must look beyond just identifying our areas of weakness and take a strategic approach to explore self reflection, self assessment, create a personal plan an action plan, action, and monitor ourselves.

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Ask your career coach: "Do I need to update my skill set to land my dream job?"

I am a strong believer in taking a proactive approach in all areas of life, particularly in regard to your career. How you position and prepare yourself to land your desired job is an essential part of a relauncher's forward movement.

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A Relauncher’s Salary History: To Share or Not to Share

Relaunchers are particularly vulnerable in responding to salary history requests. They often have extended career breaks, dated salaries, and/or low hourly rates from consulting or project gigs with which they filled their employment gaps. But if they decline to share salary history, they may fear that employers will…

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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity

I write this on St. Patrick’s Day, a day associated with luck and happenstance, with tricks and serendipity. Despite my ancestral inclination to place all faith in the Luck of the Irish, when it comes to a job search…it’s not wise to rely on luck alone to accomplish your career…

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Want to learn all the secrets to a successful relaunch?

The conference is an opportunity to attend a results-driven conference from home! The format of the conference will be two days of content followed by one day dedicated to networking with our sponsoring employer representatives. As part of a pre-conference session, you will hear from iRelaunch’s CEO and Co-founder, Carol…

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How should I deal with "relaunch resistance" from my family?

As your first day back at work approaches, you will probably begin to hear family members’ concerns about the impending changes at home. The time you have spent away from work running a household and/or acting as the go-to parent has likely been very helpful and convenient to those around…

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The 3 Phases of Career Clarity

It is no surprise that iRelaunch repeatedly stresses the importance of gaining clarity on your career goals as being the very first step you should take for a successful relaunch. Follow this advice of developing a specific action plan with small but meaningful steps to keep yourself accountable and to…

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Connecting the Dots of Career Clarity and Company Needs

If you’ve been following along thus far, my blog series is detailing the steps I took on my journey to land my dream job at iRelaunch. As I recounted in my last post, before I even approached iRelaunch, in searching for clarity in the next stage of my career,…

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Career Advice’s Biggest Contradiction

A quick Google search for “visualizing success ” yields over 21 million results. You’ll find expert after expert espousing the meritorious benefits of visualization techniques and setting goals to reach this pinnacle of success in countless articles and podcast interviews...to say nothing of the fact that the definition of success…

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The 5 truths those caring for their elders need to hear

Ah, the hats. You wear so many. In fact, you wear so many hats that it’s likely that the one labeled “adult daughter” or “adult son” didn’t even cross your mind. It did sneak up on top of your head gradually, in the form of the occasional missing detail that…

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