OnRamping
MIT Program for relaunchers interested in returning to science, engineering or technical careers
Attention Relaunchers interested in returning to science, engineering or technical careers:
From OnRamp to President, Meet Mary Alice Heape, President, Casuals Etcetera, Inc.
Looking for OnRamp inspiration? Meet Mary Alice Heape, President, ETCETERA. After 9 years as a SAHM, she joined ETCETERA as a fashion consultant. Now she's the President of one of the fastest growing clothing companies in the country. Here's my interview with Mary Alice Heape.
The Encore Career is emerging as a major social trend.
There has been plenty of anecdotal evidence that people are launching a new stage of work that combines social impact with personal meaning and continued income. Now a nationwide survey shows these pioneers may represent millions of others, and may be followed by tens of millions more.
The 2008 MetLife Foundation/Civic Ventures Encore Career Survey found that between 6 percent and 9.5 percent of Americans ages 44 to 70 are already in their encore careers, even if they don’t yet use that term.
Women look to career "OnRamp"
ABC News
May 22, 2008
By Terry McSweeney
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Women who have done it will tell you, trying to get back into the workforce after taking time off to raise a family, can have you pulling your hair out.
But now a website offering one-stop shopping for these 'On-Rampers' as they're called, has now come out with a new manual on how to make the process less stressful and more understandable.
May 22, 2008
By Terry McSweeney
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Women who have done it will tell you, trying to get back into the workforce after taking time off to raise a family, can have you pulling your hair out.
But now a website offering one-stop shopping for these 'On-Rampers' as they're called, has now come out with a new manual on how to make the process less stressful and more understandable.
Reboot your career
Lee Callaway and his knack for rebooting careers, and translating that into earnings
Sam Whiting, SF Chronicle
Sunday, May 11, 2008
At the moment Lee Callaway promoted himself to online college professor, he knew he had a knack for reinvention. Callaway, 71, turned that knack into a Web site, www.rebootyou.com, which he runs from his house in the hills above Redwood City.
Sam Whiting, SF Chronicle
Sunday, May 11, 2008
At the moment Lee Callaway promoted himself to online college professor, he knew he had a knack for reinvention. Callaway, 71, turned that knack into a Web site, www.rebootyou.com, which he runs from his house in the hills above Redwood City.
Planning can ease re-entry into the work force
Pacific Business News (Honolulu) - by Cathy Cruz-George Pacific
Jennifer Laa, a legal professional, temporarily put her career on hold after her second child was born in 2006.
But that lasted for only a year. She now works full time as the fair housing program manager at the Legal Aid Society of Hawaii and is studying for a doctorate in political science.
How Stay-at-Home Moms Are Filling an Executive Niche
by Sue Shellenbarger
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Lots of employers would like to be able to hire cheap, temporary teams of seasoned pros with experience managing $2 billion investment portfolios, running ad campaigns or earning Ph.D.s in neuroscience.
But few know the secret to finding temps of that caliber: Look on playgrounds and at PTA meetings.
Meet Robin Colner, OnRamper, Start-up CMO
We met Robin Colner at the Harvard Business School New Path program in 2007 and asked her to share her OnRamp story. Her's her story in her words...
Comeback Careerists: Reinventing Work After Time Away
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By Toddi GutnerSpecial to The Wall Street Journal
Last update: 8:42 p.m. EDT April 9, 2008
