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4 Tips for Kids to Help Their Moms Return to Work susan rietano davey work + life balance Nov 28, 2018

“What can I do to help?” These words spoken from young lips are music to any mother’s ears. I have four children, 22 nieces and nephews, and 9 godchildren, so the odds are favorable that I hear that p...

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Resilience: the Antidote to Rejection confidence job search skills susan rietano davey Nov 14, 2018

It’s Girl Scout cookie “close-out” season and I’m all in. Outside polling stations around the country last week, boxes of last year’s cookies were selling like hotcakes. And they taste as good as they...

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In Praise of the Cavewoman and her many ‘Hats’ husbands&wives job search skills susan rietano davey Oct 31, 2018

When we were newly married, Bob and I saw the play “Defending the Caveman” with some friends. Caveman is a one-man comedy that explores the innate differences between men and women with hilarious clar...

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Partners: a ‘must have’ for the working woman inspiration susan rietano davey work + life balance Oct 24, 2018

I began my career in Xerox Corporation’s executive training program, which, in the mid-80s, was reputed to be one of the top three executive training programs of the time. How I, an English major who ...

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Shine! kelley biskupiak work + life balance Oct 17, 2018

My first year as a teacher I had 29 students in my 3rd grade classroom. Seventeen of those students were the cutest, most high-energy boys you could ever encounter. The school district was financially...

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How to Find a Mentor hiring job search skills susan rietano davey Oct 10, 2018

Seeking to be more fully and objectively informed, Kelley and I invited randomly selected new Prepare to Launch U students to participate in small video chat focus groups about the course last week. A...

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How To Conquer Workplace Ageism hiring job search skills susan rietano davey Sep 26, 2018

As any astute observer of, or participant in, the American workplace will acknowledge, employers and hiring managers have some degree of age bias. We all do, and it runs both ways: “The millennial is ...

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Time to Pull the Trigger confidence kelley biskupiak work + life balance Sep 19, 2018

Raise your hand if you’ve had a conversation in your lifetime that would qualify more as a defining moment than a conversation. Yes? Then you will know exactly where I’m coming from with the story I a...

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Your Resumé Questions Answered job search skills resumes susan rietano davey Sep 12, 2018

Back in the day when writing a rĂ©sumĂ© required thoughtful precision (no spell check), a trip to the library (no company Google searches), expensive “bond” paper and envelopes – plus postage – the econ...

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Showing our Daughters the Way mothers and daughers susan rietano davey Sep 06, 2018

When I entered high school four decades ago (yikes!) the first lesson I learned wasn’t extracted from a bio lab or a book of American poems. It was more of a pop psychology lesson: Being social is eas...

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A Message to Employers: Hire A “Returner” hiring management susan rietano davey Aug 22, 2018

Recently, I’ve had a number of male clients ask me how to bring more woman-leaders into their organizations. I don’t care that this might be a knee-jerk response to current events; I’m just thrilled t...

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You CAN return to work. Here’s what it takes. job search skills susan rietano davey Aug 15, 2018

One of my earliest and all-time favorite clients is a woman named Carol.

Carol left her job as a senior corporate trainer for a national retailer to stay home and raise three sons. Her youngest was j...

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