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1. Apply for jobs that are listed as part-time.

2. Find a full-time job and negotiate it to part-time.
Take a full-time job and hope that once you're in it you can negotiate down to part-time.
Apply for full-time hoping to negotiate hours the way you would salary when offered the job (RISKY!!!)

3. Apply for a job as part of a job sharing team.

4. Work as a contractor.
Negotiate projects on your own.
Work through a staffing service.

5. Create your own position.
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A new study offers some important suggestions to ease the reentry of older women into the executive workforce Monica McGrath is an adjunct assistant professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Wharton Executive Education and UBS Launch "Career Comeback," A New Program for Women Reentering the Workforce Women Returning to Work after a Career Hiatus Face Obstacles; New Program Supports Women in Career Transition Philadelphia, PA, and New York, NY, January 25, 2007 —

You are leaving your job to pursue a new adventure! Before you get carried away by the wonderful opportunities and challenges ahead, be sure to factor in a few simple steps that will help you successfully on-ramp when the time is right. All too often women walk away from the workplace without putting the pieces in place that will create new employment opportunities for them later in their lives. We don't want that to happen to you!

From The Sunday Times
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May 20, 2007
From mummy slow lane to the fast track
Economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett is fighting for a working life that women can live with

March 8, 2007; Page D1

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by Sue Shellenberger

When Elizabeth Montanez decided to return to work after 12 years at home with her four children, she faced a problem: Her resume ended at 1994.

Trying to Opt Back In
After decades of debating whether mothers should go back to work, now women are asking—can they?

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By Eve Conant
Newsweek

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Sylvia Ann Hewlett has more cause than most women to fight for family-friendly working hours.

The Cambridge academic, who now lives and works in the US, was struggling through long hours at work, combining her demanding job with being a mother, when she found she was expecting twins.

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By Commongood Careers

Every day, we talk to jobseekers who are seeking to transition into careers at socially entrepreneurial organizations. Some come from the corporate world, some are recent graduates, and others are teachers. Whatever the specifics, there is one key factor to these jobseekers' capacity to catch the eye of a nonprofit employer: the ability to identify, demonstrate, and market their transferable skills.