Shea Baker
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32 appearances
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first heard Sep 2023
last heard Sep 2023
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It's okay to take a career break and enjoy what that career break offers.
Just when I thought I was out.
A returnship is a return to a field or career, but it's treated similar to an internship in the sense that it offers transitional support.
We cater to retirees, people who've taken breaks to return to school, get master's degrees, travel, serve in the military, volunteer, start a business, etc.
You name it, those are the people we're catering this program to and that other return to work programs are catered to.
Individuals who've specifically taken a career break.
A person applies for a job and during the first 16 weeks of that job, they are in a returnship, they receive transitional support, coaching,
technological training, etc.
Returnships help you to see your career and maybe the careers of others as a long-term strategy for growth and living your best life.
And I think returnships just allow you to see that career differently and to pace yourself to know that it's okay to take a break.
They're all over the country at this point.
They exist within companies like Walmart and Amazon and Goldman Sachs and Northrop Grumman and Pepsi, et cetera.
And now they're starting to grow within state organizations,
This is actually a fear that a lot of returners have, is that you wonder if you return to work if you're going to have to start and climb the career ladder all the way from the bottom again.
Nobody wants to do that.
Right now, we have a returner who took a multiple-year career break to care for children.
During that time, she got her master's degree.
She was worried that employers would only see her as her former self, like her pre-career break self.
When a returner knows that they were chosen for the position based on who they are, regardless of their career break, they're able to take a deep breath.
And then they're able to focus their energy on something different.
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