I just got my company to agree to ignore career breaks for carers

[Betheanne]

I've been working on this project for months. I argued that instead of sitting around moaning that senior women aren't applying in our male dominated field we should do something about it. As of today, a UK company that employs more than 15,000 people will add a line to every job advertisement that we encourage people that have taken a career breaks for parenting and caring to apply.

Well done!
What industry are you working in?

Brilliant!

Brilliant. My company runs recruitment for carers returning to work. The workplace us better for them.

This is so encouraging, it's honestly the best thing I've read this year. Thank you and well done

@WhoseKids

Brilliant. My company runs recruitment for carers returning to work. The workplace us better for them.

is there much openings for older carers returning to the workplace. or is it mostly aimed at young mums.

I took 7 years off to raise my daughter . I have a MBA and I was just getting started. The conventional wisdom at the time was that it would take 5 years to get back to where I was. Someone must have written a widely shared article or something because numerous people told me this. I believed it and I chose to parent full time anyway.
When my daughter was about 2 I found www.womenreturners.com and watched it grow. I dropped her off at Year 3, came home and applied for 3 returnships. I got 2 interviews and a job making 25k more than where I left it.
I've moved companies now (because they tried to make me count Transwomen as women in our government required diversity statistics with no room to debate. So I left) and this is my first big move at the new company. I'm infinitely better at my job. I'm bolder and calmer and more disciplined.

Thank you, from a single parent carer! (and thanks for telling us about it, really cheered me up!)

Congratulations. That’s such a useful and effective bit of activism. Well done you. 🍾

A ton of talent and opportunity is wasted when returners are discounted. Thank you so much OP.

Thanks OP! I’ve returned from an unexpected two year break as a carer. It has been harder than I thought to get back into Work (but also: Covid). We need to humanise business practices, especially to help keep talented women.

Whoop!

That’s brilliant OP, we need more people like you in the world.

Well done OP - that's a big step in terms of changing your company's views round returners!

My modest triumph as a TU rep was to show my company how the savings in NI contributions would be greater than the admin overheads and get them to sign up to childcare vouchers.

Well done from someone who got back into their profession after ten years just due a fluke. ( And after having felt unemployable for a long time due to the break).
Although I did read your OP as being having got a Care company to stop allowing their workers from having any tea or lunch breaks.

Thanks and congratulations!

That is great news. And congratulations!!!

Well done OP!

I will be returning to work in a few years and I’m anticipating a hard road ahead, but it’s thanks to the hard work of people like you that make it seem much less daunting.

This is what inclusion and supporting women looks like .

That is fantastic news :)

Would you be able to share the arguments that persuaded people to get on board with it? I’m sure it would be helpful for others in a similar position to influence company policy

Excellent work

To be fair, you sound awesome, OP, what with this and standing up against the diversity figures bullshit.

Brilliant!

Great work OP!

That's wonderful. Thank you.

Amazing! This has really lifted my spirits! Hopefully more organisations will follow suit.