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, you’ll 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. They’re sharing the ups-and-downs of their return-to-work journeys – the challenges, the rewards and the learnings. After each story, we’ll 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 we’ve coached thousands of career returners, and we’re excited now to share some of their inspirational stories with you.After

Career Returners is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 27 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Career Returners, a business show with 27 episodes published.

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  Episode #5

  Return Journey – How to get back to work and thrive after a career break with Julianne Miles

  Nov 12, 202533 minS3

  “Value your career break. Recognise how the time that you have had on career break has helped you to grow as a person in terms of your skills, in terms of your experiences, in terms of your perspective, in terms of your resilience. And recognise the value that that means you can bring to a new employer..”<p>In this special podcast episode, we speak to Co-Founder, ex CEO, and now Executive Chair of Career Returners, Julianne Miles MBE.</p><p>Julianne is a leading global expert in returning to work, a Chartered Psychologist, and a successful returner herself. Over the...

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  Episode #4

  Move Forward and Embrace Growth with Ajay Sahota

  Nov 13, 202435 minS3

  “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.”<p>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.</p><p>When...

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  Episode #3

  Flying High with Skylarks with Deirdre Carswell

  Oct 9, 202429 minS3

  “I have to say I'm in a role that is probably my favourite role that I've ever had in my working career”<p>After a twenty five year career in the corporate and private medical sector, Deirdre (Dee) Carswell  successfully made the move into the charity sector.</p><p>Her journey to this transition was not always smooth sailing. Although she’d been involved in pro bono work throughout her career, she made the first leap in 2019 when she left the corporate sector to set up as an independent charity consultant. But the pandemic threw Dee off course as she took a...

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  Episode #2

  From TV Production to Rail Innovation with Charlotte Hills

  Sep 11, 202433 minS3

  <p>Charlotte’s first career was in TV production, initially working as a script supervisor and then as a Director working on well-known programmes such as Big Brother and Hell's Kitchen.</p><p>She took a career break of 6 years to raise her twin daughters and during this time she also relocated to Switzerland with her family. Unable to work there, she was the main carer for her daughters. </p><p>After returning to the UK, Charlotte began to look for work but returning to her old freelance TV career was not easy or conducive to raising a young family. Th...

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  “Be Brave Quicker!” with Joanna Campbell-Meiklejohn

  Jun 28, 202431 minS3

  <p>Joanna Campbell-Meiklejohn has had a varied career, spanning different sectors and countries. She spent the first part of her career working in Corporate and Investment Banking and after her second child, decided to leave banking and return to the UK to spend time with her young family. During this period, she set up and ran a successful property business in the Cotswolds where she lived which gave her a whole host of additional transferable skills and experience.</p><p>However, during COVID and the slowdown in this sector, she took the opportunity to rethink what she wanted to do p...

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