How to Translate Your Parenting Skills to Professional Skills

Amri Kibbler

How to Translate Your Parenting Skills to Professional Skills

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Are you a parent returning to work after taking time off?

Contrary to popular belief, parenthood is actually the perfect training ground for the workplace, yet parents often overlook – or don’t showcase – the skills they have gained when communicating their value.

Join this...

Are you a parent returning to work after taking time off?

Join this conversation with Amri Kibbler, Co-Founder and Chief Community Officer at HeyMama, as she dives deeper into how to position yourself for a successful job search as a parent. During this chat, you’ll learn how to put your real-life parenting experiences on your resume, and talk about them with confidence in an interview that will help land you that job.

During this chat, we’ll talk about:

Naming the transferable skills parenthood cultivates
Translating those skills to the workplace
Communicating those skills on your resume and in an interview

Meet The Speaker

Amri Kibbler

Co-Founder & Chief Community Officer, HeyMama

Amri is a mom of two and the Co-Founder & Chief Community Officer of HeyMama, a social and professional network that provides community, connections, tools and resources for working moms.

Previously, she spent more than 10 years as an editor and stylist creating content for major women’s publications including Glamour Magazine and Cosmopolitan.

Her passion is helping mothers to find fulfillment at work and at home. HeyMama developed the Motherhood on the Resume® campaign to address the stigmas, bias and motherhood penalty that women face when growing both a career and a family.

Q&A

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applying parenting skill for jobs

By: Preeti, UX Design Intern

Posted on 2022-05-04
How do I address parental needs before signing on to a job or requesting adjustments after I'm hired? For example, if I'm in charge of my child being dropped off and picked up from school and it...

By: Griselle

Posted on 2022-05-04
How in depth should you go when explaining parenthood experiences to your potential employer? Should you be mindful of oversharing too much of the nitty gritty that comes with parenthood?

By: Lindsay

Posted on 2022-05-04
Tips for getting back into the workforce after being a SAHM for a few years.

By: Courtney, Sales and Marketing

Posted on 2022-05-03
What ways/things can we do to support parents in their job? What things can companies do to be better employers for parents?

By: Katie

Posted on 2022-05-03
Should I put motherhood as a job history with bullet points and all that or just touch on it in my cover letter?

By: Alana

Posted on 2022-05-03
How to describe transferrable skills on resume for career re-entry?

By: Tia, Project Director

Posted on 2022-05-02
How do I make sure I am meeting the needs of my clients while at the same time not sacrificing my needs or the needs of my family.

By: Jennifer, Registered Nurse

Posted on 2022-05-01
I have an autistic son and an elderly parent whose health is declining. How do I say I can multi-task, i.e. making multiple appointments in one week? Thanks.

By: Evelyn

Posted on 2022-05-01