What are my employment prospects please?

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Hello,

I would be very grateful to anyone who will take the time to read my post and advise me accordingly as I absolutely need help.

I am married, have 2 DCs, late thirties, have a BA and MA in Humanities. I am a British Citizen but not originally from the UK and both my degrees are from my country of origin. My work experience (7 years as a whole) before coming to the UK a decade ago was in media, PR/ communication as well as a stint as a part-time lecturer at university while working full time. This last one lasted only one year as I left for the UK at the end of that academic year. I also speak and write perfectly two languages besides English (English is not my native tongue).

I have never worked in the UK and never looked for work before now as I was raising my DCs full time. My youngest will start school in September and I would like to start looking for a job. Ideally, as a start, I would like something part time or flexible that I would enjoy doing. WFH would be ideal. What would you suggest I start doing now? What are my prospects? If you are a recruiter or a company boss, would my qualifications be attractive enough for you? What about the 10 year gap in my work experience? I've always enjoyed working and excelled in whatever I did.

Thanks

I would suggest looking at returner programmes. There are quite a lot of programmes right now designed specifically for women with long career breaks. Some are retraining you in a new field (especially tech) while others will want you to have relevant experience even if it was a long time ago. You may need to be willing to work more days than ideal at the start (eg 4 days rather than 3) with a view to dropping down to fewer days once you are back in the workplace.

Women Returners website is a good place to start but there are other sites too, try googling returnships or returner programmes.

Think carefully about how you will cover school holidays too.

Inclusivity is another good website

Thanks a lot @minipie! I will certainly have a look at the websites mentioned :)