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By Lori K. Long

By Sue Shellenbarger

From The Wall Street Journal Online    

It's been a year of significant work-life gains for many employees, with the expanding economy driving increases in work-at-home and other forms of job flexibility.

Published by Women@Work Network.

1.  Avoid Full-Time Jobs.  Be realistic:  it's rare that a job advertised as full-time will turn into part-time.

 2. Prepare to Mine for Gold.  Recognize the fact that you will have to dig around for part-time jobs.  At least 90% of jobs are full-time.
 
3. Figure out how many hours you can devote to work and the schedule that you can follow every week.  Employers like reliability and predictability.

by Commongood Careers

Graduate degrees and professional certifications can provide nonprofit jobseekers with a leg up in their careers.  In many cases, a degree or certification in a specific field is a necessity to landing certain nonprofit positions. In addition to advancing career prospects, post-bachelor's education provides the opportunity establish professional contacts, experience an internship, and increase knowledge about a specialized function or field within the nonprofit sector.

By Commongood Careers

Every day, we talk to jobseekers who are seeking to transition into careers at socially entrepreneurial organizations. Some come from the corporate world, some are recent graduates, and others are teachers. Whatever the specifics, there is one key factor to these jobseekers' capacity to catch the eye of a nonprofit employer: the ability to identify, demonstrate, and market their transferable skills.

Back in Business: Invest in Your Return

Tuck Executive Education's innovative new program is designed to
reintegrate executives into the fast paced business world, focusing on
leadership skills and knowledge required by world-class employers. A
majority of our participants are women with MBAs who left the workforce
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Back in Business is an intensive 11-day, 55-session program over three

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Sylvia Ann Hewlett has more cause than most women to fight for family-friendly working hours.

The Cambridge academic, who now lives and works in the US, was struggling through long hours at work, combining her demanding job with being a mother, when she found she was expecting twins.

Trying to Opt Back In
After decades of debating whether mothers should go back to work, now women are asking—can they?

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By Eve Conant
Newsweek

March 8, 2007; Page D1

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by Sue Shellenberger

When Elizabeth Montanez decided to return to work after 12 years at home with her four children, she faced a problem: Her resume ended at 1994.

From The Sunday Times
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May 20, 2007
From mummy slow lane to the fast track
Economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett is fighting for a working life that women can live with