Career Interrupted

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

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: 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.

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.

The Routledge Companion to Career Studies is an in-depth reference for researchers, students, and practitioners looking for a comprehensive overview of the state of the art of career studies. Split into five parts, the volume looks at major areas of research within career studies and reflects on the latest developments in the areas of theory, empirical studies, and methodology. The book's five parts cover (1) major theoretical and methodological debates and approaches to studying careers; (2) careers as dynamic, ongoing processes covering such issues as time, shaping careers, career outcomes and patterns, and the forces shaping careers; (3) the local, national, and global context of careers, (4) implementing career research to design practical interventions in areas such as education, counseling, and national policy; and (5) a commentary on the current state of career scholarship and its future development as represented in this volume, by founding scholars in the field. This book will be a sourcebook for scholars studying careers, research students intending to take up the study of careers, and anyone – scholars and practitioners – with an interest not only in understanding careers, the factors shaping them and where they lead, but also in how this understanding might be used in practice.

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This report examines how the two global mega-trends of population ageing and rising inequalities have been developing and interacting, both within and across generations.

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.