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Career ReturnersReturning to work after a multi-year career break is daunting. Be inspired by the successful returners who share their stories and hear about the ups-and-downs of their journey back to a fulfilling career. Author: Career Returners
Is it possible to return to a fulfilling, challenging, successful career after a long career break? After listening to these stories we want your answer to be a resounding yes! On our Career Returners podcast, youll hear from a diverse range of people who are successfully back at work after taking long career breaks for childcare, eldercare, health or other reasons. Theyre sharing the ups-and-downs of their return-to-work journeys the challenges, the rewards and the learnings. After each story, well chat over some of the key themes that emerged and share some of our top return to work tips. The Career Returners podcast is brought to you by Career Returners, the return to work specialists. We work with employers and career returners to enable professionals to return to satisfying and fulfilling work after career breaks of 2, 5 or 15 years. Over the years weve coached thousands of career returners, and were excited now to share some of their inspirational stories with you. After listening to this episode, do head along to careerreturners.com where youll find lots of advice, over 100 success stories, and a range of return to work opportunities for people on career break wanting to get back to work. While you're there, do sign up to our free Network and also our Facebook group for extra support and connection. Website: careerreturners.com Facebook: facebook.com/careerreturnersnetwork/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/careerreturners/ X: https://x.com/careerreturners Language: en Genres: Business, Careers, Kids & Family, Parenting Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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Move Forward and Embrace Growth with Ajay Sahota
Episode 4
Tuesday, 12 November, 2024
“At any given point in time, you will always be faced with two directions. You could either go back to safety, continue doing what you've always been doing, or you could move forward and embrace growth.”Ajay enjoyed a first career in technical roles in the food sector in India and the UK. During her career break to spend more time with her young family, Ajay also set up her own consultancy developing a wealth of fantastic business skills and experience. She also took the opportunity to pursue her long held interest in studying for an MBA.When she was ready to return to work, she hoped to transition away from technical roles and use her MBA and consultancy experience in business management roles. However, she struggled to make the move into a different role and sector and initially received many rejections.Her fortune changed when she came across Leidos, a technology company, who were running a returnship programme for professionals who had taken a career break. They saw the value of all her experience and how this might transfer across and in November 2023, Ajay successfully joined as a Benefits Realisation Manager, a role that brings together her stakeholder management expertise, project management skills and business experience.“I am really proud of the example that I'm setting for my children and like I look up to my father, I hope they look up to me and say, it can be done. You can pursue your dreams and you can reinvent yourself in any stage in life.”For advice, support, opportunities, and connection, see our Career Returners website: https://bit.ly/3eAhKQH For more details about the experts and organisations inspiring and connecting people to make changes to their careers, take a look at the Careers can change campaign at careerscanchange.co.uk . A big thank you to Phoenix Insights for sponsoring this episode of the podcast and their support for the Careers can change campaign.
