Resume writing tips for moms, caregivers, and professionals returning to the workforce after a career break.
If you’ve taken time away from the paid workforce—whether to care for family, manage health challenges, or focus on other personal priorities—stepping back into paid employment can feel overwhelming. One of the biggest hurdles? The resume.
Traditional resume formats don’t always reflect non-traditional career paths, and it can be frustrating to figure out how to show the value of your experience when you haven’t followed the standard 9-to-5 track.
That’s why we’ve created a brand-new course by Upword Resume. Introducing Relaunch Your Career: Writing a Resume for Career Re-Entry.
This course is designed to help you repackage your unique experiences, highlight transferable skills, and build a resume that positions you as a strong candidate, no matter how long your career break has been.
Why a Different Approach Matters
A standard resume is built around a linear career history. But for many re-entering professionals, that timeline has gaps, or sometimes no traditional full-time employment at all. That doesn’t mean you don’t have value to offer.
At Upword Resume, we are strong advocates for the value of caretaking, homemaking, and healthcare work. Our society, our families, and much of our economy depend upon the unpaid work that doesn’t show up in the GDP or jobs report.
For most re-entry job candidates, their career “gap” is actually full of various kinds of work. Volunteer leadership, caregiving responsibilities, community projects, continuing education, and entrepreneurial side hustles all build skills that employers need.
This course shows you how to shift the focus away from what’s missing and toward what you offer a potential employer: organizational strength, problem-solving, communication, leadership, resilience, and more. It’s about changing the lens, so hiring managers see your readiness, not your break.
Inside the Return-to-Work Resume Course
Relaunch Your Career: Writing a Resume for Career Re-Entry is a power-packed, easy-to-navigate video course that takes you through the process of writing a career re-entry resume, step-by-step .
You’ll get:
- Five video modules from Upword Resume’s founder. Angela breaks down how to structure, write, and format your return-to-work resume.
- A 15-page fillable workbook with guided exercises to help you brainstorm your experiences, divide them into effective sections, and translate them into resume-ready content.
- Real resume examples from some of our return-to-work resume clients, demonstrating a variety of ways to showcase your experience.
- Hands-on exercises that move you from stuck to productive, making it easy to turn your notes into polished bullet points.
- A quick, practical format. The entire course takes about 45 minutes to complete, so you can make progress without the overwhelm and get started on putting it into action with your own resume.
One Success Story
One of our clients had been out of the workforce for several years. She felt completely paralyzed about how to start, worried that her break had erased her chances. After going through this course, she was able to draft a strong, confident resume within two days. That resume quickly landed her interviews and a job offer.
After a month and a half of being too scared to get after it, I finally sat down and watched your first workshop video two weeks ago.
Reframing fear as resistance was an absolute game changer. Something clicked! So I hammered out a resume in a day and a half. I had two interviews lined up within a week. And this morning, I accepted an offer for the position I was most excited about.
The videos were quick and easy to get through, yet packed with everything I needed to get started. I watched them and thought okay yes, I can do this! And then I did. After months of feeling like I couldn’t. No more resistance.
I can’t thank you enough.
With the right tools and frameworks, they’re able to make the leap far more easily than they thought possible.
Your Work Is Valuable
If you’ve been doing work outside the traditional economy—raising kids, managing a household, caring for aging parents, volunteering, or leading in your community—it may not feel like “professional experience.” But it is valuable work. It’s expertise. It’s skill-building. And it makes you a stronger candidate.
Every career transition requires some repackaging of skills and messaging. This course simply gives you the tools to connect the dots for employers, so they can see what you already know: you’re ready, capable, and equipped to relaunch your career.
✨ Start your journey today: Relaunch Your Career: Writing a Resume for Career Re-Entry
