Returning / Restart

• Returning After a Layoff: What to Do First

  The first 30 days after a layoff disproportionately shape the next 6 months. Here's a practical sequence — emotional, financial, network, and search — that produces faster landings.

• Returning to Work After a Career Break

  Career breaks aren't deal-breakers. Here's the playbook: skill refresh, framing, target-role selection, and the returnship programs and language that help most.

• Career Restart After Burnout

  A career restart after burnout requires more than a new job — it requires a different operating model. Here's the playbook: recovery, root-cause work, and re-entry.

• Freelancing to Full-Time: The Reentry Plan

  Going from independent to employed isn't a downgrade — but it does require deliberate framing. Here's the plan: positioning, level negotiation, and what to expect.

• How to Explain a Career Gap

  Career gaps need three sentences, not three paragraphs. Here's the framing, the language, and the follow-up answers that turn gap into non-issue.

• Returning After Parental Leave

  The first 90 days back from parental leave shape the next year. Here's a practical re-entry plan — schedule, expectations, conversations to have, and trajectory recovery.