Let’s convert your skills developed as a homemaker into marketable employment skills

Let’s convert your skills developed as a homemaker into marketable employment skills!

What did you do at home?

· Planned your weekly menu and purchased groceries

· Paid your bills and balanced your check book

· Planned outings delegated the trip responsibilities out to all participants

· Oversaw the daily routine of family members, insuring that they fulfilled their schedules while fulfilling your own

How does it translate into Employable skills?

- Basic Budget preparation and purchasing

skills

- Basic bookkeeping and account’s payable

skills

- Basic to Intermediate Organizational and

Managerial skills

- Basic/Intermediate Supervisory and

Managerial skills

Some help from the Internet

See more examples of converting homemaker responsibilities to employee skills in the following Internet article:

Here are some Tips to former Stay-at-home Moms returning to work:

Resume writing Tips for the Stay-at-Home Mom:

Helpful Movie Clips

A News Clip from CBS:

Mom’s Returning to Work –

Things to Consider When Mothers Want to Return to the Workforce:

A News Clip from MSNBC:

How stay-ay-home moms can return to Work:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23467395/

A Note about Moms returning to work from Oprah and Friends:

A lighter look at going back to work, from YouTube!

By: Phyllis Atwell, MPA. Florida International University, Center for Labor Research and Studies