A course to help women get back to work after sabbatical

Gurgaon: Women who often grapple with re-joining work after a
sabbatical now have help on hand, courtesy a course offered by a
business school here.

School of Inspired Leadership (SOIL), a business school, is offering a
one-year programme titled Career Reconnect for Women.

According to a statement, the programme will help women gain insight
into relevant and contemporary areas of business that will help them
rejoin corporate life or start their own entrepreneurial venture.

"A large pool of educated women today is consciously putting their
career on hold for raising family," the statement said.

"When she decides to return to work and resume her career, she deals
with issues such as making up for her time away from work and
explaining the gap in the employment history," it added.

"Understanding the increasing career aspirations of Indian women, the
changing mindsets of women and their families and the rising
importance of a higher education qualification among the nation's
youth, SOIL has introduced a specialized course dedicated to women,"
it added.

There is an Individual Development Plan in the programme in which the
student will undergo psychometric assessments.

It is mentoring driven, in which each student will be mentored by a
woman mentor.

Other key features are: Application Focus in which it will be seen if
students can apply concepts that they learn and Action Learning where
students will work on real life projects.

While the course itself is of six weeks' duration, it will be spread
across one year. The total fee for the programme, which will begin
August this year, is Rs.7,46,950 that includes accommodation and
meals.

Another programme to be introduced this year by the school is Early
Entrepreneur Development Programme aimed at those who may be
first-time entrepreneurs or have a family businesses.

"This programme will help them understand all the nuances of
entrepreneurship and how they can set up, manage and grow their
venture," the statement said.

"To supplement learning in the classroom, each student will have an
exclusive mentor to assist his or her specific needs as a sounding
board," it added.

This one-year, part-time programme will begin July this year. IANS