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Ready to Return: The Inside Scoop on Getting Back into the Workforce

Wednesday, September 4, 2019
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM ET
Webinar
259 attending
Hosted by
iRelaunch
iRelaunch
Fairygodboss
Fairygodboss
Ready to Return: The Inside Scoop on Getting Back into the Workforce
WEBINAR
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM ET
Hosted by
iRelaunch
iRelaunch
Fairygodboss
Fairygodboss

Event details

Are you ready to return to the workforce after taking time away, but don't know how? Join Fairygodboss as we talk with Carol Fishman Cohen, Chair and Co-founder of iRelaunch. During this conversation, Carol will tackle the issues and questions return-to-workers deal with like:

  • How to get started on your job search
  • Learning new technologies
  • Important resources to help you with your search (including companies with great returnships!)

Carol will cover a variety of topics and also take your questions. If you have a question you'd like to submit prior to the webinar, you can submit it here. 

Meet the speaker

Carol Fishman Cohen, Chair and Co-founder of iRelaunch

Carol Fishman Cohen

Chair and Co-founder of iRelaunch

Carol Fishman Cohen

Chair and Co-founder of iRelaunch

Carol Fishman Cohen, Chair and Co-founder of iRelaunch, builder of corporate career re-entry programs and leader of the 75,000 person strong iRelaunch #returntowork community, is a pioneer in the career re-entry space, having presented over 400 times on career reentry topics for more than 50,000 people. Her viral TED talk "How to get back to work after a career break," has nearly 2 million views and has been translated into 30 languages. She is the host of the popular 3,2,1 iRelaunch! podcast, and is the author of the seminal Harvard ...

Carol Fishman Cohen, Chair and Co-founder of iRelaunch

Carol Fishman Cohen

Chair and Co-founder of iRelaunch

Carol Fishman Cohen, Chair and Co-founder of iRelaunch, builder of corporate career re-entry programs and leader of the 75,000 person strong iRelaunch #returntowork community, is a pioneer in the career re-entry space, having presented over 400 times on career reentry topics for more than 50,000 people. Her viral TED talk "How to get back to work after a career break," has nearly 2 million views and has been translated into 30 languages. She is the host of the popular 3,2,1 iRelaunch! podcast, and is the author of the seminal Harvard Business Review article "The 40-Year-Old Intern." Cohen and the iRelaunch team produce the iRelaunch Return to Work Conferences and work with over 70 global companies on career re-entry programs, primarily involving mid-career internships. iRelaunch co-leads the STEM Re-entry Task Force with the Society of Women Engineers, which has 25 corporate members. Nearly 400 “relaunchers” have participated in Task Force member return to work programs to date, and 85% have been hired. iRelaunch co-leads a similar initiative in the financial planning sector with the CFP Center for Financial Planning, that now includes 11 companies. Cohen relaunched her own career when she returned to work at Bain Capital after an 11 year career break before co-founding iRelaunch. Her relaunch is documented in a Harvard Business School case study. A graduate of Pomona College and Harvard Business School, she lives in greater Boston. Website: iRelaunch.com. Twitter: @iRelaunch

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iRelaunch

iRelaunch

iRelaunch works with over 70 global companies to build and expand return to work programs of all kinds and manages a national community of over 75,000 “relaunchers” who are returning to work after career breaks ranging from one to over 20 years. iRelaunch’s pioneering work in the career re-entry space is the major driver behind companies creating their own return to work programs, usually involving paid, mid-career internships, and running side-by-side with the entry-level college internship programs on which they are modeled. iRelaunch also runs the largest and longest running career re-entry event in the country, the iRelaunch Return to Work Conference. iRelaunch just celebrated its 25th Conference and also has run hundreds of career re-entry events for thousands of return to work ...
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