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 		ReConnect Restarts Women's Professional Careers
Return to work in a leadership role with confidence by attending ReConnect, a course for professional women who want to relaunch careers after time away.
ReConnect Restarts Women's Professional Careers
Return to work in a leadership role with confidence by attending ReConnect, a course for professional women who want to relaunch careers after time away.
Stay-At-Home Parents Return to Work
Returning to work for a stay-at-home parent can be stressful. This article provides simple crafts and other ideas to help make the back to work transition easier.
Stay-At-Home Parents Return to Work
Returning to work for a stay-at-home parent can be stressful. This article provides simple crafts and other ideas to help make the back to work transition easier.
Choosing Between Career and Kids
Trying to decide whether to go back to work or stay with your baby? Career options, your child's age and the ability to change your mind make this a flexible decision.
Choosing Between Career and Kids
Trying to decide whether to go back to work or stay with your baby? Career options, your child's age and the ability to change your mind make this a flexible decision.
How to Avoid Parenting Burnout
Taking time away to rest and recharge is important for parents working inside and outside the home, both for the health of the parent and the happiness of the child.
How to Avoid Parenting Burnout
Taking time away to rest and recharge is important for parents working inside and outside the home, both for the health of the parent and the happiness of the child.
How to Set Up a Nanny Share
Sharing the services of a nanny between several children helps reduce childcare costs and provides socializing time for children in a warm home environment.
How to Set Up a Nanny Share
Sharing the services of a nanny between several children helps reduce childcare costs and provides socializing time for children in a warm home environment.
A Nanny Job Description
If you are looking to hire a nanny, a clear and definitive job description is an essential part of the process.
A Nanny Job Description
If you are looking to hire a nanny, a clear and definitive job description is an essential part of the process.
The History of Nannies
Have you ever been curious about how nannies came to be, and how far they date back? The first nannies, called nurses, are different than nannies today.
The History of Nannies
Have you ever been curious about how nannies came to be, and how far they date back? The first nannies, called nurses, are different than nannies today.
Top 5 Online Nanny Placement Agencies
If you are considering hiring a nanny for your child, then check out this resource of the top five places to find a nanny using the Internet.
Top 5 Online Nanny Placement Agencies
If you are considering hiring a nanny for your child, then check out this resource of the top five places to find a nanny using the Internet.
Take Your Child to Work With You
Children can certainly learn a lot from their parents, and that is why many parents enjoy taking their child to work with them.
Take Your Child to Work With You
Children can certainly learn a lot from their parents, and that is why many parents enjoy taking their child to work with them.
Resources for Working Moms
Even supermom relies on help from her childcare provider, employer and day planner.
Resources for Working Moms
Even supermom relies on help from her childcare provider, employer and day planner.
Time Management for Parents
Time management for parents starts by keeping a time diary, then creating routines and blocks of time to focus on activities that are important to you and your family.
Time Management for Parents
Time management for parents starts by keeping a time diary, then creating routines and blocks of time to focus on activities that are important to you and your family.
Mother Day Gift Ideas
Moms just want to be acknowledged and thanked for their dedication and hard work. Give the best Mother's Day gift this year.
Queen of the Multitaskers
After working all day, the last thing we want to do is come home and tackle household chores. How can we maximize the time we spend with our kids? Multitasking!
Queen of the Multitaskers
After working all day, the last thing we want to do is come home and tackle household chores. How can we maximize the time we spend with our kids? Multitasking!
Single, hard, working mother?
It can be difficult, as a working mother, managing your life when you have a partner. But what if you don't have one?
Have you been naughty or nice?
Treating colleagues with respect/admiration can help you work your way up the institutional ladder. But how much sucking up is too much? Does being naughty help?
Happy holidays…or is it?
Most of us thinking of the holidays as a great time to see family and friends, and also fit in some relaxation. But not everyone can take holidays over Christmas.
Presents, presents, presents
At the end of a long work day the last thing any working mother wants to do is go Christmas shopping. So here are a few tips to help take the stress out of the holidays.
To Busy Working to Work It?
Sometimes our lives as mothers, workers and carers run away from us and we lose that connection with our partner. So here are a few quick tips to keep up the romance.
What do working mothers want?
Can we really know what we want until the day our little baby arrives? Or is this a question with an ever changing answer?
Are you Mrs Scheffield?
Here is a quick quiz to see if your nanny, babysitter or childcare facility is spending more time with the children than you are.
Getting that Promotion!
Working mothers are often blessed with long days, short nights and wonderful, little cuddly (and sometimes naughty), people called children. So what do you do when y
Working with a sick child
In this weeks blog I raised the question surrounding whether childcare centres should cater to children who are slightly ill, this currently is not the standard practice
Work after the Death of a Child
Losing a child is a horrendous, life changing experience and returning to the workplace soon after is something that could be considered an enormous task.
The Battle of Fatigue
Work deadlines, sick children, homework, housework and partners can all lead to a working mom feeling fairly fatigued. Here is a quick daily guide to fight off fatigue
Moms: doing it for themselves
Why have 'me' time when you can have 'you' all the time. This article discusses the need for working mothers not to lose themselves.
Writing a Selection Criteria
Addressing a job’s selection criteria can be a daunting task. The best way to tackle this task is to have a clear method, which will articulate your skills and experienc
Cover Letters
Writing a good cover letter is another important step in applying for a job. What do you put in, leave out or highlight. This article looks at the different elements of
Resume Writing 101 (part 3)
Choosing appropriate referees is almost as important as your list of employment information. As you would tailor your employment and knowledge categories, you should als
Resume Writing 101 (Part 2)
This article contains the kitchen sink in regards to what you should put in your article regarding employment history, knowledge skills and expert knowledge.
Resume writing 101
This article looks at the first two sections of resume writing: personal details and education. This piece contains some great tips if you're a mom returning to work.
What constitutes a good resume?
Returning to the workforce with a new or settled baby/toddler can be a stressful experience for any mother. Creating the perfect resume can be a stressful but rewarding
Your home workspace!
Once you have decided to work from home you also need to create a good working environment and systems which will allow you to separate work and leisure.
Employed and working from home
What are the benefits and potential downfalls of working for a company from home?
Work at Home: Franchises
This is the third article in our series and covers the subject of working mothers, franchises and working from home.
Work at Home: Self-Employment
This is the second article in our series and covers the subject of working mothers, self-employment and working from home.
Choosing to work at home
This is the first article in our five part series and it addresses the issues that working mothers must consider when deciding to work from home.
Dual or Duel Parenting?
Why are women taking on so much of the workload inside and outside of the home? This article ponders new findings from Australia.
Vacations and Working Moms!
Working Mom’s - sometimes you have to make yourself take a break!

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