Career Interrupted
Career Interrupted

Author: Norah Breekveldt

Publisher: Melbourne Books

Published: 2018-09-01

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1922129879

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How do women defy the odds and get their careers back on track after a break? How do women manage the mummy mafia at the school gate? Is there a motherhood penalty? Can women really have it all - a successful career and a rewarding family life? Does overseas experience really accelerate your career in Australia? How do you recreate your career after a setback? In Career Interrupted fourteen high-achieving women talk openly about their challenges in carving out a successful career after a break. These women come from all walks of life - from battlers to privileged backgrounds, from small business to big corporations, from large corporates to small business, from professional services to the community sector. Several women had children and talk candidly about what it's like to be in the throes of mother guilt and come out the other side; some are expatriates who returned to Australia to rebuild their career, yet others had to re-establish their career after a misstep. These stories are interwoven with the latest research from thought leaders around the obstacles and pitfalls in leaving the workforce for a time, and include practical and proven strategies to overcome these hurdles. Career Interrupted contributes to the discussion and debate in business and the broader community about how to develop workplaces where the contribution of everyone, including women, is recognised, nurtured and optimised. It explores the shared experiences of women who have had to navigate a break in their career and provides a beacon for other women about to embark on a similar journey. Her Excellency Frances Adamson, Australian Ambassador to the People's Republic of China;Anna Burke, Federal member for Chisolm;Lisa Croxford, Capability Development Manager, Herbert Smith Freehills;Lucinda Dunn OAM, Artistic Director, Tanya Pearson Classical Coaching Academy;Dr Marguerite Evans-Galea, Scientist, Bruce Lefroy Centre, Murdoch Children's Research Institute;Jennifer Keyte, Seven News Melbourne Weekend News Presenter;Dr Sharon Lierse, Lecturer, Charles Darwin University;Samone McCurdy, PhD candidate and Program Consultant, Monash University;Lucinda Nolan, Deputy Police Commissioner, Victoria Police;Kelly O'Dwyer, Federal Member of Parliament for Higgins and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer;Dr Hannah Piterman, Consultant, advisor and author, co-founder of Gender Worx;Moira Rayner, Lawyer and former WA Anti-corruption Commissioner;Lucy Roland, Marketing specialist and Communications Coach;Jodie Sizer, Principal, PwC Indigenous Consulting;Tracey Spicer, Journalist and newsreader;Dr Helen Szoke, Chief Executive, Oxfam Australia;Dr Jennifer Whelan, Director, Psynapse Psychometrics and Research Fellow, Melbourne Business School. 'These stories offer inspiration and give insight into how success was achieved by many women despite the ongoing barriers to equality. They provide plenty of ideas for anyone wishing to have a career break, for any reason.' - Kate Jenkins, Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commissioner

Career Interrupted
Career Interrupted

Author: Reena Gupta, Rebecca Cullen

Publisher: Notion Press

Published: 2021-11-17

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1955450048

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Packed with wisdom and insight from interviews with 43 experts including entrepreneurs, talent industry executives, psychologists, and career coaches, Career Interrupted stands out as a highly-personalized self-help book that teaches you how to navigate even the most challenging of career crossroads. In this refreshing guide on what it takes to find fulfillment and balance in your professional and personal life, serial technopreneur and work-life advisor, Reena Gupta, is your personal champion giving you the mindset, tools, and strategies helping you to: ? Identify and change the patterns that are holding you back ? Get clarity on your priorities and zero in on your secret sauce ? Create your own happiness scale ? Find your professional ecosystem ? Flex your social connection muscles ? Reinforce your support network ? Prioritize your body, mind, and soul wellness ? Explore three different career paths ? Choose your path to create a life you totally love By the end of Career Interrupted, rather than playing a passive part in your career, you will be in the driver’s seat making work-life harmony a reality.

Career Interrupted
Career Interrupted

Author: Reena Gupta

Publisher:

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781955450010

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Career Interrupted: is a book for anyone who is taking stock of their life and wanting to align their hopes, visions, and talent with a career path that brings them a feeling of success. This book is relatable to anyone who either chose to leave a job, was asked to step down for whatever reason (furloughed, laid off, downsized), or is deciding to step away to start a family, or return to the working world after taking a break. We will examine different types of work, and through the hands-on assignments you will pare down what you want to focus on, what is important to you, what your strengths are, what your work style is, and where the opportunities lie, and we will get you pointed on the right path. At the end of the book, you will come away with a work-life canvas that will serve as a blueprint and a roadmap for your future success.

Work Won't Love You Back
Work Won't Love You Back

Author: Sarah Jaffe

Publisher: Bold Type Books

Published: 2021-01-26

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 1568589387

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A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives. You're told that if you "do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life." Whether it's working for "exposure" and "experience," or enduring poor treatment in the name of "being part of the family," all employees are pushed to make sacrifices for the privilege of being able to do what we love. In Work Won't Love You Back, Sarah Jaffe, a preeminent voice on labor, inequality, and social movements, examines this "labor of love" myth—the idea that certain work is not really work, and therefore should be done out of passion instead of pay. Told through the lives and experiences of workers in various industries—from the unpaid intern, to the overworked teacher, to the nonprofit worker and even the professional athlete—Jaffe reveals how all of us have been tricked into buying into a new tyranny of work. As Jaffe argues, understanding the trap of the labor of love will empower us to work less and demand what our work is worth. And once freed from those binds, we can finally figure out what actually gives us joy, pleasure, and satisfaction.

The Mathematical Career of Pierre de Fermat, 1601-1665
The Mathematical Career of Pierre de Fermat, 1601-1665

Author: Michael Sean Mahoney

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 9780691036663

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Hailed as one of the greatest mathematical results of the twentieth century, the recent proof of Fermat's Last Theorem by Andrew Wiles brought to public attention the enigmatic problem-solver Pierre de Fermat, who centuries ago stated his famous conjecture in a margin of a book, writing that he did not have enough room to show his "truly marvelous demonstration." Along with formulating this proposition--xn+yn=zn has no rational solution for n > 2--Fermat, an inventor of analytic geometry, also laid the foundations of differential and integral calculus, established, together with Pascal, the conceptual guidelines of the theory of probability, and created modern number theory. In one of the first full-length investigations of Fermat's life and work, Michael Sean Mahoney provides rare insight into the mathematical genius of a hobbyist who never sought to publish his work, yet who ranked with his contemporaries Pascal and Descartes in shaping the course of modern mathematics.

Bias Interrupted
Bias Interrupted

Author: Joan C. Williams

Publisher: Harvard Business Press

Published: 2021-11-16

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1647822734

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A cutting-edge, relentless, objective approach to inclusion. Companies spend billions of dollars annually on diversity efforts with remarkably few results. Too often diversity efforts rest on the assumption that all that's needed is an earnest conversation about "privilege." That's not enough. To truly make progress we need to stop celebrating the problem and instead take effective steps to solve it. In Bias Interrupted, Joan C. Williams shows how it's done, and, reassuringly, how easy it is to get started. One of today's preeminent voices on inclusive workplaces, Williams explains how leaders can use standard business tools—data, metrics, and persistence—to interrupt the bias that is continually transmitted through formal systems like performance appraisals, as well as the informal systems that control access to career-enhancing opportunities. The book presents fresh evidence, based on Williams's exhaustive research and work with companies, that interrupting bias helps every group—including white men. Comprehensive, though compact and straightforward, Bias Interrupted delivers real, practical value in an efficient and accessible manner to an audience that has never needed it more. It's possible to interrupt bias. Here's where you start.

English Language Teaching as a Second Career
English Language Teaching as a Second Career

Author: Sarah J. Shin

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2016-12-07

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 1783096950

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This book explores the experiences of men and women who train to teach ESL as a second career. Drawing from in-depth interviews and observations of 30 students (aged 45 to 73) in a TESOL graduate program, this book provides portraits of these individuals as they develop as teachers. It describes the processes they go through to launch their teaching careers, the successes and challenges they face, and the evolving significance of their work in their overall life goals and achievements. A welcome addition to the growing literature on teacher development, this book will be an important resource for teacher trainers and anyone working in TESOL.

The Oxford Handbook of Job Loss and Job Search
The Oxford Handbook of Job Loss and Job Search

Author: Ute-Christine Klehe PhD

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-05-08

Total Pages: 633

ISBN-13: 0190903503

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Job search is and always has been an integral part of people's working lives. Whether one is brand new to the labor market or considered a mature, experienced worker, job seekers are regularly met with new challenges in a variety of organizational settings. Edited by Ute-Christine Klehe and Edwin A.J. van Hooft, The Oxford Handbook of Job Loss and Job Search provides readers with one of the first comprehensive overviews of the latest research and empirical knowledge in the areas of job loss and job search. Multidisciplinary in nature, Klehe, van Hooft, and their contributing authors offer fascinating insight into the diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives from which job loss and job search have been studied, such as psychology, sociology, labor studies, and economics. Discussing the antecedents and consequences of job loss, as well as outside circumstances that may necessitate a more rigorous job hunt, this Handbook presents in-depth and up-to-date knowledge on the methods and processes of this important time in one's life. Further, it examines the unique circumstances faced by different populations during their job search, such as those working job-to-job, the unemployed, mature job seekers, international job seekers, and temporary employed workers. Job loss and unemployment are among the worst stressors individuals can encounter during their lifetimes. As a result, this Handbook concludes with a discussion of the various types of interventions developed to aid the unemployed. Further, it offers readers important insights and identifies best practices for both scholars and practitioners working in the areas of job loss, unemployment, career transitions, outplacement, and job search.

Multiple Paths of Midlife Development
Multiple Paths of Midlife Development

Author: Margie E. Lachman

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1997-05-15

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 9780226467580

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In this collection of fifteen papers, leading researchers analyze the middle years of the lifespan, paying close attention to the many different facets of adult development. They study the various changes involving the self and others that middle-aged adults experience in the realms of work, family, and health. This book explains how the different experiences interrelate and how a better understanding of them can foster successful midlife development.

The Cultural Study of Work
The Cultural Study of Work

Author: Douglas A. Harper

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13: 9780742519183

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A reader for a sociology course, reprinting 23 articles from professional journals. They cover work as social interaction, socialization and identity, experiencing work, work cultures and social structure, and deviance at work.