December 2020
Beginner
240 pages
2h 59m
English
book
Managing Your Career (HBR Working Parents Series)
by Harvard Business Review, Daisy Dowling, Stewart D. Friedman, Amy Gallo, Jennifer Petriglieri
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Ramp Up Your Career After Parental Leave
by Lisa Quest
Quick Takes
- Identify your career goals
- Cut out tasks and meetings that don’t advance your goal
- Focus on what you can do in the time you have
- Conduct regular conversations at work and at home
- Reassess your goals and adjust course
- Pay it forward
Returning from parental leave can be a jarring inflection point that too often results in people curtailing their responsibilities or leaving their jobs altogether. While many women choose to return to work after maternity leave, many others find that it’s not sustainable and leave or take on reduced roles. Seventeen percent of women and 4% of men stop working in the five years following childbirth, according to research recently conducted at ...