Recently, businesses have expressed an urgent need for professionals with specific IT and technological skills. Bolstering teams with...
Re-launching Your Career
Ready to relaunch your career? Get expert advice on building confidence, updating skills, and finding fulfilling work after a break.
5 Skills You Need to Get into the Health and Social Care Industry
The health and social care industry offers many jobs and careers, enabling staff to interact with people from various backgrounds and...
How To Get Into Digital Marketing
With the slew of new technology available to most businesses, the job market has opened significantly. New recruits are needed to help navigate...
Training to be a Bookkeeper – Lisa’s Story
Suzannah from M&C caught up with Lisa from Abacus Comprehensive Accounting, who explains why she chose Ideal Schools ICB Career Path course...
Tips for Mothers Returning to Work after a Career Gap
With all of the inherent demands of being a mother thinking about returning to work after a career gap can seem daunting. It can be difficult...
Advance preparation for your return to work
At the moment our household is in mid-exam crisis mode. With two teenagers sitting important exams, I'm supporting from the sidelines....
Changing Career through volunteering with the Army Cadet Force
Kim Green is a single mother of two teenage sons, an incident management coordinator, and a Sergeant Instructor with the Army Cadet Force. For...
Five ways to build your back-to-work networks
Networking is important for a back-to-work job search for mothers wishing to return to work. The value of networking has really been brought...
How a MOOC can help working mothers test their career dream
I always keep my eye out for good resources for women returning to work. This week I heard on Twitter about a free new online course just...
Is it possible to return to work after a career break at 50+?
This is a question I discussed recently with Dr Ros Altmann, the UK Government's Older Workers Business Champion. It is also a question I hear...
Who are your best return-to-work supporters?
What do we normally do when we're thinking about making changes in our lives? Our natural instinct is often to talk things through with friends...
How to avoid the Top 10 Return to Work Job Search mistakes
Over the years that I have been working with returners, I've noticed how many women make the same job search mistakes that can completely...