Having a baby and starting to raise your own family is a really amazing thing but for many women it can be challenging to know how to being returning to work after maternity leave. Often, new mothers take this opportunity to explore their options. Perhaps it is time to cut down on the hours you...Read More

Increase Retention & Boost Performance Post Career Break Jessica Chivers, coaching psychologist, author of Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work (Hay House, 2011) and founder of The Talent Keeper Specialists. The first two tips relate to how you operate: For colleagues returning from a maternity/paternity...Read More

Jessica Chivers is a coaching psychologist, author of Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work (Hay House, 2011) and founder of The Talent Keeper Specialists. In this article she gives us an insight into how we can get a grip on guilt and get back to...Read More

Jessica Chivers is a coaching psychologist, author of Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work (Hay House, 2011) and founder of The Talent Keeper Specialists In a nutshell? “KIT days allowed me to settle back in more quickly – a benefit for both me and my...Read More

Jessica Chivers is a coaching psychologist, author of Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work (Hay House, 2011) and founder of The Talent Keeper Specialists In a room of coaches and employers at a seminar we ran at the University of Hertfordshire on maternity comeback coaching...Read More

The announcement in December of revised parental leave legislation paves the way for new thinking around the pregnancy journey and transition to motherhood for female executives. My experience as an advisor to business and supporting mothers-to-be exit and elegantly return to the workplace whilst maintaining an upward career trajectory and become the mother they want...Read More

Whether to return to work straight after having children is a decision that many women battle with. For some women, the answer is plain and simple. If you have the luxury of being financially stable or have a partner who is willing to continue working, then it is much easier to be a stay-at-home mom....Read More

The problem with living in the baby gap is that going with the flow no longer seems a viable option. If we’re not careful, we end up analysing every choice, every turn in the road through the ‘maybe baby’ lens. If I make this career move, will there still be time to have a child?...Read More

In the space of a week I’ve had three conversations with three different mothers (coachees) whose shoulders I could almost hear dropping from ear-hunched positions to relaxed relief when I suggested or endorsed the idea of organising a bit of regular childcare before they go back to work. Childcare isn’t just for those of us...Read More

Purely PA Recruitment will be working with Rumm Employment Law to bring you a series of these articles over the next year ….. A briefing by David Rumm Principal of Rumm Employment Law This is a very hot topic at the moment with us seeing lots of litigation in all areas. We have recently acted...Read More