Back on the Career Track

Back on the Career Track
Carol Fishman Cohen and Vivian Steir Rabin
Warner Business Books
ISBN: 0-446-57820-7
Non-Fiction, Career
Reviewed by Dr. Tami Brady

I wish someone would have given me this book a few years ago when I started back to work after being a full time Mom. My experience was extremely difficult and essentially I had to learn everything the hard way. I fought with myself about going back to work. I felt guilty about leaving the kids. I consistently chose jobs that didn’t suit my life realities and then ended up doing Houdini acts just to keep everything together. It took me a long time to figure out what I really wanted to do with my life, where I wanted to do it, and how to balance family and work. Okay, so I’m still working on the last one.
Back on the Career Track looks at going back to work after being a stay at home Mom from a variety of different perspectives. Readers are encouraged to ask themselves those really hard questions like do you really want to go back to work, what are your reasons for going back to work, do you have the time to go back to work, and how supportive is your family about the venture?
With these questions out of the way, the reader then looks to what kind of work they want to do. The shear amount of options can be somewhat overwhelming. Do they want to return to the job that they had before they had children or do they want to start a new career? Do they want to work full time, part time, flex hours, shift work, per project, etc?
With those important issues out of the road, the real problems begin. How do you make a resume that looks professional when you have a ten year gap missing? How do you start networking again? How do you regain your skills? How do you deal with supervisors that are the same age as your kids? Check out Back on the Career Track it will reduce the anxiety and give you a lot of great advice.