J.T.: I am constantly asked for information on how professional women who’ve chosen to stay at home with their children can re-enter the work force. There’s a Web site for moms looking to re-enter the paid work force on their terms: YourOnRamp.com. This site’s dedication to a target audience of moms is very helpful.
Dale: My recommendation for this month is a bit unusual, because it’s the music Web site Pandora.com. I’m one of those people who likes to have music playing while I’m working. However, I end up playing the same CDs over and over, or else putting on a radio station, which has constant distractions. (The art of radio advertising is the art of being distracting.) With Pandora, you simply tell it an artist or style, and it plays that sort of music all day long, without interruptions, giving you the energy of music without advertising or pledge drives.
Jeanine “J.T.” Tanner O’Donnell is a professional development specialist and founder of the consulting firm jtodonnell.com. Dale Dauten’s latest book is “(Great) Employees Only: How Gifted Bosses Hire and De-Hire Their Way to Success” (John Wiley & Sons). Please visit them at jtanddale.com, where you can send questions via e-mail, or write to them in care of King Features Syndicate, 300 W. 57th St, 15th Floor, New York, NY 10019.
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