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Getting Fit Helped Me Return to Work: A Case Study
Being away from the workplace can have an impact on various areas of your life. You may miss the camaraderie of working with friendly colleagues,...
How I Arranged Childcare: Case Study
Organising decent childcare can be one of the most stressful elements of returning to work. For many parents who want to return to work, there simply isn’t a...
How I Updated My Skills on Maternity Leave: A Case Study
Maternity leave is an exciting time for all sorts of reasons, mostly because you have a new little bundle of joy. For some new mothers, maternity...
I Had a Makeover Before Returning to Work: Case Study
Returning to work can be daunting on so many levels, with concerns over whether you’ll be able to keep up with the office banter to making sure...
I Invested Redundancy Money in New Business: Case Study
Even though being made redundant was one of the most difficult experiences in Susie Morston’s adult life, her positive attitude has enabled her...
I Stumbled Into Returning to Work: Case Study
Not everyone who returns to work has a clear career strategy. For many people, returning to work is simply a financial necessity, or a p...
I Used My Skills as a Mother to Return to Work: A Case Study
For Zoe Masters, 34, her concerns over returning to work after six years out of the workplace were helped by a re-write of her CV.
A...
Life After Illness, Work Helped: A Case Study
Although for many of us the idea of weeks of work and whole days in bed, drinking tea and watching television, when that is all you have to look...
My Role Changed After a Sabbattical: A Case Study
Returning to work after taking a sabbatical can often take a bit of getting used to.
The majority of people that take a sabbatical go off...
Networking Gave Me an Opportunity to Return to Work: A Case Study
When David Ellis, 41, was made redundant he felt sure that his career possibilities were limited. The fact that the advertising industry had been...
Night Class Helped Me to Return to Work: Case Study
As an experienced nurse, Ellie Norman, 42, was sure that her skills would be welcomed in the NHS when she decided to return to work after eight...
Redundancy Helped Me Find a New Direction: A Case Study
Although being made redundant is always a bit of a blow to the system, with it becoming more common as we face recession, it is at least not such...
Return to Work After 3 Children: A Case Study
Returning to work can be fraught with emotional and practical difficulties.
The Career Advisor’s Casebook
This was certainly the case...
Son's Illness Inspired My Return to Work: Case Study
While it may not be accurate to describe deafness as an illness, for researcher Claire Donaldson, 38, from Suffolk, her son’s diagnosis lead her...
