If you have a flexible business opportunity which might suit WAHMs please do get in touch with caroline@familyfriendlyworking.co.uk. We’re looking for genuine opportunities for parents which can be done from home or fitted around the school run.

The number of mothers working full-time has increased from less than a quarter to almost a third over the past 15 years, new figures show.
The Office for National Statistics said 29% of mothers worked full-time at the end of last year, up from 23% in 1996, driven by a growth in full-time working generally.

Millions of women have returned to work just weeks after giving birth because they can’t afford to stay home, a study conducted on behalf of Philips AVENT reveals. Eight out of ten new mums head back to the office because they are ‘in desperate need of money’, while only one in five return to work because they love their job.

Workingmums.co.uk is delighted to announce TV presenter Fiona Phillips will be the keynote speaker at the first Workingmums.co.uk Live event in March.

If you’re  unemployed and have been claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) for more than six months, you could receive a support package worth up to £2,000 to help you start your own business.  The New Enterprise Allowance scheme is to be expanded with the aim of creating up to 40,000 new businesses over the next two years according to a new Government announcement.

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Whether you’re looking for employment in a different field of work, or you’re starting up your own business, balancing career change with being a mum is challenging to say the least. Here are a few tips for making the transition successfully.

“Who these days expects to be working for the same employer until they retire?” This was the question that I was asked when I started working life a little under 15 years ago. In that time the question has changed into “Who expects to be working for only one employer, possibly at the same time, until they retire?”. For it is likely that the working generation now may find themselves either by choice or by necessity working for a number of businesses.

There are many books out there trying to help people get a job. These are very good at what they do, but the job market being as competitive as it is, there is an opportunity to get back to basics and understand the key elements of job applications. This book, Applying for a Job by Sasa Jankovic has lots of simple effective pages on subjects ranging from CV preparation to applying for your first job. This alone is something that I haven’t yet seen attempted before in similar books and …