Written by Ladies Returners Program Alum, Natalie Seivwright
Final month, I had the pleasure of talking on the Digital Internships Ladies Returners Programme Panel Session together with Helen Flynn and Ruth Ndjoba-Sieland. It was implausible to share my expertise with returning to work and I had such encouraging suggestions from the ladies on the programme!
Once I grew to become a single mum of three youngsters, returning to work was an extremely daunting and scary prospect. I had been out of labor for two years and had no thought the place to even start, particularly given how costly childcare is!
Natalie Seivwright – Ladies Returners Program Alum
Jessica Heagren founding father of That Works For Me just lately launched a Careers After Infants report and it’s extremely insightful. I extremely advocate studying it right here. It goes into nice element concerning the many boundaries that ladies face when returning to work after turning into moms. The web site additionally has a number of useful sources for locating versatile work together with help for implementing the suggestions within the report.
Discovering the Confidence to Return to Work After a Profession Break
Final yr, I got here throughout the Digital Internships Ladies Returners Programme which is totally funded by Expertise Growth Scotland, with the intention to present ladies the instruments and sources to return to work with confidence.
This programme has actually been utterly life-changing for me.
It gave me nice perception into the increasing world of distant/hybrid/versatile working, one thing that I hadn’t even thought-about might be an choice for me Working for Leaf on a stay work expertise mission gave me a lot confidence, serving to me realise what number of of my abilities had been transferable and I discovered a pure drawing to crew management. This programme actually helped me see myself in an entire new mild with the encouragement of #TeamVI and the beautiful contributors.
From finishing the programme, I used to be capable of efficiently safe a completely distant working job with hours that had been versatile to my household’s wants.
The liberty that this has delivered to my life is unbelievable and I nonetheless pinch myself to at the present time that I’m able to earn a living from home and have “one of the best of each worlds.”
Balancing work and residential life definitely has its challenges and I really feel I’m nonetheless studying each day juggle all of it, however I’m so grateful to have labored with such implausible corporations with distant and versatile working insurance policies.
Had a Profession Break of Six Months or Extra? Be a part of the Ladies Returners Programme!
The following cohort for the VI Ladies Returners Programme is operating on-line from twentieth February 2023, you could find out extra information under. In case you are a girl aged 25+ residing in Scotland, been out of labor for six or extra months, and have the best to work within the UK then you could be eligible.
I encourage you all to share this with anybody who may gain advantage from this chance!
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