Women who return to the workforce are often sold short, in part due to society’s view that if you are not in the paid workforce you are “doing nothing.”
The other part of this equation is because after a few years of dealing primarily with children and household chores, many women find that their self-esteem and self-confidence are low in terms of what they have to offer in the workplace. world of work.
But as any smart employer knows, a woman who returns to the workplace brings with her extremely valuable skills and qualities.
Here is a list of the top ten gifts, blessings, strengths that women returning to the workplace bring with them to the workplace … whether they know it or not!
1. Multitasking:
Any woman with a home and family should be able to do at least 16 different things at the same time!
The next time you see a young mother at the grocery store with a couple of young children, take the time to see how many tasks she is doing at once. This is skill and half and immensely valuable in the world.
And that’s it before I get to the checkout, where none of the kids want to wait, and then get everything and everyone back to the car.
2. Problem solver, emergency management, problem solving:
Little problems seem like big problems to little people! Mom has to handle endless ’emergencies’ and some real ones too, not to mention problems like getting the peanut and jelly sandwich out of the VCR (or worse, the DVD player!).
This is just the tip of the iceberg of what a mother has to deal with at home.
3. Manager, initiative, self-directed:
She manages the family, the house, meals and everything else in the home. He has no instructions, no training, and no expert to turn to (unless it’s his own mother)
4. Organized inventory control:
Where is? How much do we need? Keeping track of everything and anything is your job too. How do we get Jason to practice softball and Janet to dance on opposite sides of town at the same time?
5. Creative, Innovative and Lifelong Student:
Finding paths where paths had not been found before (to spoil the Star Trek saying atrociously!) This must be done, how are we going to do it? If there’s something you don’t know you need to know, you learn it, create it, make it up.
6. Money management, budgeting:
Whether they are wealthy or “financially troubled,” money still needs to be managed and budgets still need to be maintained. Whether it’s just the weekly grocery bill or when to buy a designer outfit, budgeting is always part of the job.
7. Reliability, stable, sense of responsibility:
Children implicitly trust and totally depend on Mom being there when she says she will and take care of what they need. Even the least trustworthy women become much more responsible when they have a family to care for.
8. Organization of the event:
Ah, those parties. Birthday parties, Christmas parties, picnics, even holidays – Mom takes care of the organization, making it fun, and preparing and putting everything together.
9. Mediator, interpersonal skills:
Children fight! Mom has to calm the waters, restore order, make commitments, and do it all with a very unsophisticated audience that only wants what it wants.
10. Coach, mentor, teacher:
Mothers teach by instructing, helping and also modeling the behavior they desire. Mothers can teach people who don’t want to learn it and make it a habit. That is a skill!
Children learn more from their parents than from school, although most of the time they are different things. Never underestimate the role of a mother as a teacher.
There you have the ten best skills. All are directly transferable to the workplace. There are many more. But this is just a sample of the wonderful gifts that a returning woman brings with her when she returns to work.
Don’t feel like you have nothing to offer; instead, celebrate your wonderful gifts and abilities and share them with the world.