Content written by Joanne Lipman and published by Harvard Business Review
MBA News Digest Comment: Is your career placement office doing anything to help?
Extracted Content: When it comes to working families, employers and politicians tend to focus on new mothers and fathers. Yet parents who leave the workforce when their kids are young but later want to reenter it might be corporate America’s greatest untapped resource. With unemployment rates near historic lows and companies bemoaning labor shortages, it’s time to tap into this talent pool. For the past year, I’ve worked with organizations trying to do just that. I have also interviewed scores of executives about the strategies they’re using to create more on-ramps. Here are five of the most promising: