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