Back to Your Future Blog
Building your personal brand
Being clear about your personal brand is so important as you return to work. But what exactly is ‘personal brand’, and how can you build it? Karen, Women Returners Head
Advance preparation for your return to work
With the summer holidays fast approaching, are your plans to get back to work in September getting closer? This is the perfect time to get started to prepare for your
Menopause – Removing a Potential Return to Work Barrier
‘The more people talk about menopause the better their experience’ (Kantar, 2022) Lesley Salem, Founder of social enterprise Over The Bloody Moon, aims to remove the muddle and stigma of
Flexible Working – The Where, When and How
The world of flexible working has evolved over the last two years as the ‘work from home’ mandate demonstrated how productive remote working could be. With more and more people
LinkedIn’s New Career Break Feature
In March 2022, LinkedIn launched a new feature to enable users to include a Career Break within the ‘Experience’ section of their LinkedIn profile. At Women Returners, we are really
Top 5 Return to Work Misconceptions
What are your main concerns when thinking about returning to work? Our coaching team have been working closely with the returner community for many years and in this blog, hope
Transferable Skills: How to Identify and Talk About Them
“What you are bringing to the table is a whole cocktail of crystallised intelligence, emotional intelligence, wisdom, maturity and your particular experience and skills” Our new Return to Work webinar
Return to Work Book Recommendations
My bedside table has a wobbly stack of books on it. There’s usually a ‘Top 10 bestseller fiction’ I’m half way through, a few well-worn novels that have been passed
How to Succeed as a Returner Candidate – Top Tips from Employers
Four leading Returner Programme Managers, on an Employer Panel at our 2021 Women Returners ‘Back to Your Future’ Conference, provided a wide range of practical advice on how to succeed