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How to rebuild professional identity after years away from your career

I left my career to raise my children and now they are in school full-time but when I try to network professionally everyone seems so much further ahead and I feel like I do not belong anywhere.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Caregiving sacrifice can create professional displacement that makes re-entry feel like entering a foreign country.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Belonging and identity — who belongs here?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.