Women Returners: Where Do You Start?
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Information technology is probably the greatest new element in the workplace and if your IT skills are not good or need updating, then this is probably the first place to start, as almost every job will require some basic skills in this area, and certainly you should be able to use the internet and send emails comfortably.
The most important thing you can do is to produce for yourself a CV which does you justice and which you can use either with a job application or send to a prospective employer with a speculative letter; CVs come in different styles and a skills-based one, where you focus on what you can do, while highlighting your particular strengths, rather than a chronological one, which lists where you have worked, should help you to manage the “hole” which will be on your CV during the time you have been out of work.
A well-worded skills-based CV can sell you to an employer so that he/she will be more interested in you as a person and what you can bring to the organisation, rather than where you have worked before, which is always problematic for women returners.
