Resources for Job Seekers Wanting Flexibility

(NOTE: We've recently changed our business model and no longer connect part-time job seekers with Triangle area employers.)

Finding a job is hard, and being a job seeker who wants a flexible work arrangement (e.g. part-time, job-share, telecommuting) has unique challenges for professionals. You may be seeking to change careers, trying to find a job that brings you greater work-life balance, or on-ramping back into the workforce after time out with kids. Here’s a list of some of our favorite resources that might help you in your journey.

Books & Articles for the Job Hunt:

• The On-Ramping Guide: Tips, Exercises and Important Job Search Steps for Returning to Work After Time Out Raising Kids – our very own electronic guide provides an overview of the job search process geared specifically to on-ramping professionals.  The material was developed from a series of half-day workshops featuring a variety of coaching and HR experts.
• Sample Skills Based Resume - great resume format for career changes and to de-emphasize gaps in employment
• Strengths Finder 2.0 - a strengths assessment from Gallup Poll (you can purchase the book by this name to get an access key to the assessment or you can simply take online)
• What Color is Your Parachute? 2010: A Practical Guide for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers, by Richard Bolles.
• Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 2.0: 1,001 Unconventional Tips, Tricks and Tactics for Landing Your Dream Job, by Jay Conrad Levinson and David Perry (2009)
• Ask for It:  How Women Can use the Power of Negotiation to Get What they Really Want, by Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever
• To educate yourself on flexible workplace trends and what employers are doing with flexibility, visit our Resources for Employers page.

Websites:

• WorkOptions - a website offering templates for flex proposals including part-time, job-share and telecommute
• CareerLifeConnections – a job board that lists open positions with companies who have a reputation for taking flexibility seriously
• Flex Friendly – a directory of companies that have been certified as “flex friendly”
• MojoMom.com - a website with a mom focus that devotes lots of time and resources to the work-family issues . . .