Ep 173: Working It After A Career Break With Addie Swartz

HerMoney with Jean Chatzky

Jean Chatzky Her Money

Investing, Business

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Today, 85% of millennials are planning to take career breaks, but returning to the workforce after time away can be much more challenging than landing that first job. Addie Swartz, CEO of ReacHIRE, a company that partners with Fortune 500 companies to create re-entry opportunities for women of all ages, at all stages of their careers, talks about the resources women need to get back to work, including free online courses, resume updates, and networking. In Mailbag, the best bank and investment account security protocols, ways to eliminate credit card debt, and why remote workers are happier and more productive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:38.0	Hey everybody, it's Jean Chatsky. Welcome to Her Money.
0:41.0	I went to the theater last night. We actually saw a production of a musical called
0:47.0	Working at Encores, which is a series of smaller musicals or musicals that haven't been produced for a while
0:54.8	that they bring back for just a short period of time with usually an amazing
0:59.6	cast and put them on at City Center in New York and I was thinking about the fact that we were going to do this show today,
1:07.0	A, because the name of the show was working and it was all about working and B because I ran into my sister-in-law Amy in the
1:16.2	lobby I did not know that she was going to be there and she is one of the many
1:21.4	many women in my life who took a break from their career and then struggled at some
1:28.0	point to figure out how to get back in. And it's something that so many women go through, which is why I'm thrilled today
1:39.7	to have Addie Swartz in the studio. Addie is the CEO and the founder of a company called Reach Higher.
1:47.4	And Reach Higher partners with Fortune 500 companies to create reentry opportunities for women of all ages at all stages of their careers.
1:59.6	Addie, welcome.
2:00.6	Thank you so much, Jean.
2:01.8	Thanks for being here.
2:03.6	Tell me how you started, reach higher.
2:07.5	What was it about your background that made you go in this direction? Well, I just saw so many women that were sitting on the sidelines.
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