How to Overcome Your Employment Gap

In late 2004 and early 2005, Monica McGrath, adjunct professor of management at Wharton and Wharton alumnae, Marla Driscoll, a former partner at Accenture, who has been an independent consultant for two years, and Mary Gross, head of learning and development with Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, surveyed 130 executives who had stepped out of the workforce for at least two years and who had already returned, or were trying to return to work. "Of those who responded,

83% were over 35 and 81% had an MBA. Sixty percent had left their jobs within the last five years and 18% within the last 10 years. At the time of the survey, 60% of the respondents had re-entered the workforce and 32% were actively seeking employment." The researchers found that several factors contributed to the difficulty the women experienced in restarting their professional careers. Difficulties began when the women found recruiters leery of experienced MBAs as they would be more expensive than people just leaving their MBA programs. Take a look at the other difficulties and advice to counter at Women Who Step Out of the Corporate World Find It Hard to Step Back In.
How to Overcome Your Employment Gap.