#462 Career Returners: how to build confidence after a break

Squiggly Careers

The Squiggly Career

Management, Careers, Business

5 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This is the second episode of the Squiggly Career Stage Series – 5 podcast episodes and practical tools to help you succeed in your career.

We’ve focused on 5 stages where we know people need some extra squiggly support and in today’s episode Helen and Sarah are looking at Squiggly Career Returners, to help people build career confidence after a break.

Sarah and Helen share their insights on returning and interview two people to learn from their experience; Julianne Miles MBE, Co-Founder and CEO of Career Returners and Mila Fadeeva, who returned to her career in Strategy & Operational Excellence after a 10 year career break.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Helen and I'm Sarah. And this is the Squiggly Careers podcast. And today's episode is part of our
0:08.6	Squiggly Career Stage series. And we're going to be talking about career returners. So we've got five
0:14.8	episodes in this series. We've got Career starters, which is our first episode, one on career changes,
0:19.8	one on career setbacks,
0:21.2	one on career continuers, and then today on returners. And as well as us sharing our thoughts
0:26.6	on this stage, why we think it's such an important squiggly moment to focus on and get a bit
0:30.9	of support with. We've also got some interviews with other people to give you a bit of a wider
0:35.5	perspective on this stage. So Sarah's going to be
0:38.1	talking to Julianne Miles, who is the co-founder and CEO of Career Returners. And I'm going to be speaking
0:43.2	to a returner, Mila Fadiva, who returned to work after a 10-year break. And she's going to be
0:48.4	sharing her experience, some of the fears that come with returning when you've been out of the
0:51.9	workforce for that long, and some of the really practical things that helped her to return with confidence as well. And don't forget,
0:58.4	every episode has got a career returner guide where we've put together links, coach yourself
1:03.3	questions, tools to try out. Julianne has actually written a few extra bits of advice and she's supported
1:09.9	all of that with like how you can follow that
1:12.0	advice and what might be helpful which is brilliant you'll find a link to that guide in the show notes
1:16.9	and also on our website which is amazing if dot com so we found a stat and i think you can find a
1:22.9	stat to support most things which hadn't i were talking about before this podcast that 62%
1:27.2	of employees worldwide have already taken a career break and eight support most things, which Helen and I were talking about before this podcast, that 62% of
1:27.6	employees worldwide have already taken a career break and 84% of millennials, which Helen and I
1:33.8	have decided that we just about still count as, plan to take one in the future. So, Helen,
1:39.5	what have career breaks looked like for you so far? And any career breaks in the offing that you've not told me about?
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