Explore Your Options
Find a Career Coach
Cathy Alfandre, MBA, MILR, CCMC
Career fulfillment coach offering practical support for career transition, including assessments, action planning, job search guidance, interview coaching, and development of marketing skills and materials.
Lynne Allen
Career consultant specializing in self-assessment and analyzing career choices, researching and understanding industries and functions, and job search strategies.
Nancy Collamer, M.S. Career Development
Career counselor who specializes in working with professional level women who seek more flexible and fulfilling career paths. She is the founder of Jobsandmoms.com and author of The Back to Work Toolkit: A Guide for Comeback Moms. Sessions are available by telephone or in person at her Old Greenwich, CT office.
Camille Gargiso
Personal and career coach and HR consultant, helping clients define, drive, and support their personal fulfillment strategies, goals, and objectives.
Leigh Henderson
Action-oriented executive coach, specializing in guiding individuals in developing a strategic plan for a career that realizes full professional potential and satisfies long-held ambitions.
Alan J. Pickman, PhD
Psychologist and career consultant specializing in self-assessment, goal setting, job search strategies, and career management.
Deborah Grayson Riegel
Career coach and trainer specializing in presentation skills and public speaking in addition to helping clients make the transition between the non-profit and for-profit world.
Ferne Traeger, MBA, LCSW, FIPA
Psychoanalyst, career consultant and educator specializing in career transition and advancement, finding an optimal career fit, networking strategies and assisting individuals in re-entering the workforce.
Eileen Wolkstein, PhD, LMHC
Career consultant specializing in career transition and advancement, life coaching, job search strategies, and networking skills.
Learn About Employers
The Vault
The Vault provides information on over 3000 companies in 70 industries. Its products include company profiles, an online Career Library, and a collection of company-specific message boards for employees.
Fortune Magazine’s Top 100
Each year, Fortune magazine ranks the top 100 companies that rate high with employees based on a number of factors, including benefits, job growth and compensation.
Working Mother’s Top 100
Working Mother magazine provides an annual ranking of the 100 best companies for working mothers. Top-ranked companies lead the nation in innovative time-off and maternity leave policies, work/life flexibility and child-care programs.
Grow Your Network
Linked In
Linked In is an online network of more than 8 million experienced professionals from around the world, representing 130 industries.
Women for Hire
Women for Hire offers resources to build your network and find a job including career expos, speeches and seminars, and a career-focused magazine.
YourOnRamp
YourOnRamp is an online resource for women re-entering the workforce. Whether on-ramping or off-ramping, YourOnRamp provides the social network, career resources, and job
opportunities to succeed. Their Job Board features full-time, part-time and project job postings from employers and recruiters (including On-Ramps) that are embracing flexibility in the workplace. YourOnRamp just released their first book, Your Career OnRamp, a woman's guide to re-entering the workforce. It's available at www.youronramp.com and through Amazon.
The Glass Hammer
The Glass Hammer is an online community for women in banking, law and business. It's one place to read the business news that matters most to you, sign up for training and plan your networking as they compile all relevant events for you.
Negotiate Your Terms
Negotiating for Flexibility
Read Stew Friedman’s On-Topic article on negotiating for flexibility in all aspects of your life.
www.workoptions.com
Work Options offers articles and advice on flexible work arrangements, including sample proposals for flexible work contracts.
www.salary.com
Salary.com provides customized compensation data to help you maximize your potential and advance your career.
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Get the Job You Want
Prepare for Your Job Search
iRelaunch
iRelaunch provides career reentry programming, events, and information for employers, universities, organizations and for mid-career professionals in all stages of career break. Co-founders Carol Fishman Cohen and Vivian Steir Rabin are the authors of the acclaimed career reentry strategy book Back on the Career Track: A Guide for Stay-at-Home Moms Who Want to Return to Work.
Columbia Women in Business Annual Conference
This year’s conference will focus on the journey to success, uniquely defined by the individual. Women today are reassessing what it means to be successful in terms of professional growth, personal fulfillment, and career advancement. This year’s conference aims to bring together an eclectic mix of accomplished female professionals to speak to this freedom to chart a path most appropriate to oneself. On-Ramps partner, Michelle Kedem, will be speaking on a panel entitled Big Change, focusing on navigating career and life changes successfully.
Harvard’s Dynamic Women in Business Conference
This conference brings together over 1,000 women, including students, alumnae, faculty, distinguished business leaders, and community members, to explore the opportunities and challenges facing women in today's business world. The Dynamic Women in Business conference is a powerful forum for women to learn, share, and inspire one another. On-Ramps partner, Sarah Grayson, will be speaking on a panel entitled On Ramp / Off Ramp: Coming Back After Taking a Break, focused on the issues women face when deciding to return to work.
Career Journal
The Wall Street Journal’s career site offers tips and resources for resume-writing, interviewing, working with recruiters, and more.
www.backtoworktoolkit.com
The Back to Work Toolkit provides extensive advice, resources, and strategies customized for the specific needs of mothers returning to work, either as employees or home-based entrepreneurs.
Refine Your Skills
American Management Association Seminars
AMA offers 170+ training seminars in 18 subject areas including management, leadership, communication, interpersonal skills, finance, marketing, sales and project management.
Society for Human Resources Education Programs
SHRM offers a wide breadth of educational programs and products that allow you to maintain and refine your HR skills and stay abreast of HR trends and developments.
Tuck’s Back in Business Program
Tuck's "Back in Business" program targets men and women returning to the workforce; the program reintegrates professionals into the world of business, focusing on the leadership skills and knowledge required by world-class employers.
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Find a Balance
When Work Works
When Work Works is a nationwide initiative to highlight the importance of workforce effectiveness and workplace flexibility as strategies to enhance businesses’ competitive advantage in the global economy and yield positive business results.
Find a Coach
Work with a coach to help balance your work and life.
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