How to get back to work after a career break | Carol Fishman Cohen | TEDxBeaconStreet

People returning to work after a career break

I call them "Relunchers"

Those are people who have taking career breaks

for elder care or child care reasons

pursuing a personal interest or a personal health issue

Closely related are career transitions of all kinds

Veterans, military spouses, retirees

coming out of a retirement or repatriating expats

Returning to work after a break is hard

because it's disconnected between the employers and the relunchers

Employers can view hiring people with a gap on the resume

as a high risk proposition

And individuals on career break can have doubts about

their abilities to relunch their careers

especially if they have been out for a long time

This disconnect is the problem

that I am trying to help solve

Now successful relunchers are everywhere and did every field

This is Sami Kafala

he is a nuclear physicist in UK

who took a five-year break to be home with his five children

The Singapore Press recently wrote about

Nurse returning to work after long career breaks

And speaking of long career breaks

This is Mimi Kahn

She is a social worker at Orange County California

who return to work in a social services organision

after a 25 year career break

That's the longest career break that I am aware of

Prominent people take career breaks

Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor

took a 5 year career break early in her career

And then there are the fictional relunchers

probably the most famous is Alicia Florrick

The character played by