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Career breaks
A collection of books and articles to help if you're considering a career break.
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- eBooks
- Online articles
- Acas guidance
- Useful links
- Books and articles from the library
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Featured eBook
Get the best from a career break: How to make the most of your time away from the office
Bloomsbury, 2009
This book covers all the key issues for anyone thinking about time out from the office. Includes how to make the most of a career break, weighing up the pros and cons of a career break, thinking about values and priorities, exploring the options open to you, assessing your financial situation, investigating flexible working and getting back into the swing of things.
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Online articles
The Library provides access to leading business, finance and management journals. These journals are available to logged-in ICAEW members, ACA students and other entitled users subject to suppliers' terms of use.
A working parent's survival guide
Techniques for reducing stress and successfully balancing your professional and family roles. The author recommends five powerful strategies: rehearse for transitions (including returning to work after parental leave), audit your commitments, communicate effectively, put losses into perspective, and recast your professional identity.
Sabbatical Success: How to have a business to come back to after six weeks away
Discusses the benefits of sabbaticals for businesses and employees and how to plan and prepare for a successful time away.
Will shared parental leave ever work?
Article looks at legislation passed in 2015 allowing shared parental leave in the UK. Topics covered include possible reform due to low uptake due to the structure and employment-related barriers for fathers.
Acas guidance
Advice, guidance and practical resources on a wide variety of recruitment topics for both employers and employees, produced by the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service, Acas. Acas is the employment relations service for England, Scotland and Wales offering practical, independent and impartial advice to employers, employees and their representatives.
Flexible working requests: Acas video
October 2017
Acas short video in which an Acas adviser answers three commonly asked questions by employers and employees regarding flexible working: How do I change my contract; How do I deal with a request for flexible working; How can I reduce my working hours after returning from maternity leave.
Taking a career break from work
Acas advice for employees and employers on career breaks from work, covering key points and good practice to follow. Career breaks can bring benefits for both the business and the employee.
Useful links
Career support
Articles and advice from the ICAEW on career progression, career breaks and redundancy, finding a job and working internationally.
CABA: Work
Tips and advice from the Chartered Accountants' Benevolent Association on dealing with work-related issues.
Taking a career break: what's stopping you?
Article on the TUC's workSMART site which answers common questions related to career breaks.
How a career break can benefit your résumé
Article by Caroline Castrillon on how career breaks are becoming more acceptable for professionals and how they can even benefit your résumé. Published by Forbes on 24 November 2019.
Articles and books in the Library collection
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