Nabanita De Foundation Returnships Podcast

By Nabanita De

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This Nabanita De Foundation Podcast will cover everything about returning to work after a long haul in career including telling stories of returners who have successfully returned to work after a long haul in career.

This is part of the non-profit initiative, Returnships.org, helping people to go back to work after career gap.

Returnships.org has presence in 90 countries and now is a brand contributor to Forbes.

Links :

www.returnships.org

www.facebook.com/returnships.info

www.instagram.com/returnships.info

https://www.linkedin.com/company/72014366/admin/

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Episodes (9)

Episode 5 · 1 year ago

Returnships.org Podcast - Career Coaching 101 with Laresa Acevedo

Download worksheet here: https://www.returnships.org/coach-therapy-mentors

To directly ask your questions related to Career Coaching to Laresa here: https://www.returnships.org/forum/questions-answers/career-coach-worksheet

Returnships.org is a career coach for people returning to workforce after gap in career through the self paced free course and our first upcoming cohort for Mentorship and feedback through Industry Leaders, helping you, be unstuck and successfully return to workforce. (Apply here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScyiNl9q2nQjXDVHaMS3kjVSQNQEQHwguvtJYg9zry4GETJnA/viewform)

How to best prepare on how to make the best out of the upcoming cohort, who better than an amazing Career coach, Laresa Acevado, who has made a career out of Career Coaching hundreds of women before.

Through this Podcast, Laresa would be walking us through-

1. What is a Career Coach?

2. What are some types of Career Coaches?

3. How to prepare before approaching a Career Coach?

4. How to measure success if a Career Coach is working for you?

5. Unconventional places to look for career coach.

and more...

More about Laresa:

Naturally enthusiastic, curious, and adaptable engineer, Laresa has experience in Business Analytics, Product Management, and Design Thinking. She has held multiple leadership roles including being a co-founder and leader of the first mentorship group for Puerto Rican women within General Motors. Her strengths includes building bridges between technical and non-technical teams, identifying unique strengths in individuals, and bring teams together to achieve a common goal. She enjoys reading about Human Behaviour, User Experience, Design Principles, and personal development and is passionate about helping women in STEM develop their careers through mentorship and coaching. Links:

https://www.laresaacevedo.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/acevedolaresa/ https://www.instagram.com/laresa_ace_empowerment/?hl=en

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Episode 4 · 1 year ago

Recruiting and Negotiating Tips for Returning to work with Ex-Google Recruiter, Aria Zhang

This episode features our guest Aria Zhang, who recruited for Google in the past, changed careers paths as management consultant and has recruited in various continents. This episode covers -

1. How to get into Human Resources and management Consulting? What it is like to work in each and how to change career paths?

2. How to talk to Recruiters?

3. What are some green flags and red flags in Resume?

4. How to effectively negotitate salary and levels while looking for jobs?

5. How to bridge the gap in your resume, if you have a gap in career from a Recruiter standpoint?

6. Difference in hiring in different continents - Asia and United States.

and some more golden nuggets of wisdom from a recruiter standpoint, what can be applicable to anyone looking for jobs.

More about Aria:

Aria Zhang got her MBA from Duke University and currently works as a Management Consutant at L.E.K Consulting. She has been a recruiter for Google in the past, worked for Amazon in the Retail Leadership department and has several years of Industry experience in Asia and United States.

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Episode 3 · 1 year ago

Returning to work through translating your caregiver skills to Professional Setting with Microsoft's Jhansi Reddy

Jhansi was out of workforce for 10 years and returned to the industry at Microsoft. She is a passionate Program Manager Architect with a successful track record of delivering highly available, resilient and scalable cloud services that can be leveraged to build products to empower millions of users. She works for CSE division at Microsoft. CSE is a global engineering organization at Microsoft that works directly with the largest companies and not-for-profits in the world to tackle their most significant technical challenges. Her role within the Commercial Software Engineering team (CSE) enables her to work with a breadth of industry scenarios to solve real world customer problems, side-by-side with the customer, and then use these solutions and knowledge to benefit all our customers . She applies her expertise with understanding customer scenarios and working with Development teams to offer the best possible solution. She co-develop with the customers to create a combination of products and solutions to best suit their needs.

Through this episode, she emphasizes about the importance to translate your caregiver skills to professional skills and takes us a journey on how to land a job at Microsoft after 10 years of gap.

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Episode 2 · 1 year ago

Returning to work after a Divorce with Susan

This week, we have a special guest - Susan, who returned to work after 10 years and a Divorce. We are very excited to share her journey of Returning to work with you.

Susan loves spending time with kids outdoors and is a family photographer on the side. She created a YouTube and Instagram channel called The DIY Inspired Mom! It focusses on: Working Mom Life. Photography. Kidventures. Parks. DIY. Inspiration. Food. Culture. Art. Fashion. Design. Travel. Organization. Self-care.

These are some the additional responses, she wanted listeners to know:

Things that everyone should do while returning to work (tips for stay at home parents returning to work):

- make the time to find work. Set expectations that this process may take several weeks or months.
- Practice talking about yourself as a professional rather than as a parent. For me that was difficult since my identity is that of a mom.
- Get some advice. Try to connect to other working parents about how they balance work and family life.
- Think about what you really want to do, whether or be go back to your old career or start something new. And start the baby steps to get there
- Make a job search plan with deadlines - network, update your resume,
- Dont be afraid to be yourself and own it! I started every interview with, “I’m currently a stay at home mom looking to get back into the industry..” and I think it worked to my advantage and showed that I’m driven
- Dont be afraid to ask questions
- Don’t burn bridges, keep in contact with your colleagues
- Money is money, it can be made later, but you can’t get back the time that was wasted.

Susan's experience on how Returnships.org initiative, would have helped her

"I think having returnships would have helped tremendously. I know so many SAHM hoping to get back to work but not sure where to start. Some people wonder if their skillsets and experience are adequate anymore or if they need to return to school to get a job. I feel stay at home parents are probably better at most jobs since they know how to prioritize and multi-task" - Susan

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