Get back to work with these top Twitter peeps

Twitter ninjas get moms back to work

Are you a mom looking to get back to work? Changing jobs? Twitter is a goldmine if you can weed out the tweat from the twaff  … oops, the wheat from the chaff.
We asked Katrina Kibben, Monster.com’s social media ninja, for her top Twitter people to follow to get [...]

Applying for a job? Try to get in within 24 hours

MomstoWork’s career coach Aunt Jobby got this question:

Dear Aunt Jobby
How quickly should I apply for jobs? It often takes me a week or so to redraft my resume, cover letter and get the supporting documents together. Is that too slow? Gimme a break, I am a working mom with too many kids …
Sleepless (and [...]

Who’s afraid of talking work-life balance? Ahem, men

Jonathan Prial is still unusual. He’s a top exec, a dad and a vocal advocate in his company, on his blog BalancedBits and in his personal life of the need for more work and family balance … and for lots more discussion on its importance by men as well as women.
In this guest post, he [...]

Why are workplaces still designed for families of the 1960s?

Why are our work places and schools still designed for the working families of the 1960s, the Donna Reeds of this world?
That’s one finding of the latest humdinger of a report on work life imbalance in the U.S. by the Center for American Progress, The Three Faces of Work-Family Conflict, The Poor, the Professionals, and the [...]

Buy a stamp, get a job?

Here’s a gob smacking, wake ‘em up, bring recruiters-back-from-the-dead job application … enough to get the weariest, most cynical employer to take a look.
The incredible job application, written in the style of a press release, was sent by mail to GasPedal.com, the word of mouth marketing company headed by the very clever Andy Sernovitz, who [...]

How to be an effective helicopter parent

Pity! You can’t accompany your kids to an interview or answer an interviewer’s questions, but you can help them in other practical ways when they start job hunting.
It is a fact of life that kids are staying in the family home longer, often while they hunt for their first jobs.
In this guest post, expert Heather [...]

Manage Maternity Leave (Before You Go)

Don’t offer to go back to work earlier than you have to, urges Liz O’Donnnell, a freelance writer and mother, in the first of three must-read guest posts about managing maternity leave.
Managing your time-off for maternity leave should start as soon as you learn you are pregnant, even before you tell your boss [...]

“Germ Warfare: The Swine Flu Chronicles”

I heard a weird noise the other day and turned around to see my seven year old twin boys and their friends sneezing and coughing all over each. Each wheeze was accompanied by those sound effects little boys make when they are pretending to be Ninjas or Luke Skywalker.
“Nyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, yeewaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak, spleeeeeerk!”
What was happening? It was [...]

Is 10 weeks of summer vacation too long?

Do you love the long summer vacation or worry about your kids being out of school so long that their brains will turn to fuzz?
Please take our poll:

When you are finished, check out some of these articles, including Maria Shriver saying summer vacation is the most stressful time of year.

Maria Shriver: Summer vacation more stressful than anything else

Why are school vacations so out of sync with the needs of working parents?
Our question hit a nerve with Maria Shriver, the author of the Shriver Report: A Women’s Nation Changes Everything.
Summer break “is almost more stressful than everything else the entire school year for my family,” Shriver told Mary Kate Cary of the Thomas [...]