Career reentry programs, often based on an internship-like model called a “returnship,” are a win for all involved; employers get access to a pipeline of experienced, educated potential hires and program participants get the opportunity to re-enter the paid workforce through a life-transforming opportunity.
Join our chat with Carol Fishman Cohen, CEO and Co-Founder of iRelaunch, as she’ll dive deeper into how to create career reentry programs, share examples of successful programs and why your organization should consider launching one.
During this Chat, Carol will talk about:
CEO and Co-founder, iRelaunch
Carol Fishman Cohen, the pioneering career reentry expert, is the CEO and Co-founder of iRelaunch. iRelaunch works with employers worldwide to build and expand career reentry programs to hire professionals returning to work after extended leave. iRelaunch identifies talent for and trains hundreds of managers, recruiters and relauncher participants in these programs. iRelaunch's flagship event, the iRelaunch Return to Work Conference, brings together thousands of "relaunchers" with the world's leading employers that want to hire them. It has been running for 14 years.
iRelaunch supports a community of 100,000 relaunchers looking to return to work after career breaks from one to over 20 years for a wide range of reasons unrelated to their work performance. That's why this pool is consistently high caliber. iRelaunch's innovative #calloutyourbreak campaign encourages relaunchers to use LinkedIn's new "career break" profile building category to literally call out their breaks so employers with career reentry programs will know they are eligible.
Cohen is a relauncher herself, having returned to Bain Capital after 11 years out of the full time workforce. Her relaunch is documented in a Harvard Business School case study. iRelaunch is the subject of a Stanford Graduate School of Business case study. Carol hosts the 3,2,1 iRelaunch podcast and writes regularly for Harvard Business Review. Her TED/TEDx talk, "How to get back to work after a career break," has over 3.6 million views and has been translated into 30 languages. A graduate of Harvard Business School and Pomona College, she resides in greater Miami.
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