Into Motivation

With your new arrival now firmly ensconced within your household, it’s time to consider making the transition back to work. Everything happened so quickly and it has been a whirlwind, so the fact that you have not thought much about your career and employer over this time is to be understood. However, you have to come down to earth with a bump in many respects and know that you have to make the transition very soon.

It is common for a woman in your position to feel uncertain, confused and a little intimidated. This is quite normal and many women turn to online coaching, to ensure that they make that walk back to work from a position of strength.

You may well have determined that a brand-new career is for you and it’s time to move away from your old employer for one reason or another, so you will need to gather everything around you and build a powerful stance as you approach prospective new employers. This is the time to fully understand your skill set and to begin calculating why an employer really cannot do without you on the team. This is not the time for nagging worries and you have to develop assertiveness and a supreme confidence, for best results.

Take a large, clean sheet of paper and write down all the skills that you possess. These will include all the skills that you learned while you were in school and in college, as well as any that you picked up in your previous position, or with a previous employer. In a prominent position, detail the undoubted skills that you picked up as an organiser and planner, most recently as you developed your new family! Don’t think for a minute that skills must be

the subject of some kind of paper qualification, given out by a college, university or other organisation, as the employer will certainly be looking at everything. In these days, when it is difficult to find good employees, an employer will be looking for dedication, self-assurance, self-confidence and an ability to be a self-starter.

This is not the time to be downhearted if you have a lack of formal education. Any employee willing to go the extra distance and over-deliver for the employer is worth her weight in gold, believe me. If you show this side to your would-be employer, you can almost guarantee that he or she will be very interested in adding you to the team.

These days, online coaching can help you to put everything in perspective and help you to draw out all of your abilities, expertise and capabilities. Very often, we are so caught up in our daily lives that we do not realise what we have to offer a would-be employer. Thankfully, professional coaching can also help to balance your challenges when it comes to career and family life.

Whether you are going toward pastures new, or going back toward the old employer, you need to be in a very strong position, either way. Please sell yourself appropriately!!

Amanda Alexander, Director of Coaching Mums, helps pressure-cooked, stressed working mums who long for more hours in the day. Through her coaching programmes and online life coaching courses, Amanda shows mums how to create fulfilling and successful lives. For your simple 5 step guide to balance as a working mum, download our free eBook today!