Case studies
Here are just a few stories of women and employers who have benefited from using Women Like Us' services.
Robert Postlethwaite owns Postlethwaite and Co., a small but growing specialist law firm in Covent Garden. When Robert needed an experienced lawyer to join him part-time, we found one for him – and it all started with a Women Like Us poster pinned to the gates of a North London school.
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Energy Design Studio was struggling to find an experienced marketer who wanted to work part-time. Their usual word-of-mouth approach had not worked. They contacted Women Like Us with a brief to look for a former high-level marketing professional who wanted to mix a senior role with flexible hours. In no time, they’d found their woman.
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Donor Conception Network wanted to employ a part-time professional to help them with their database overhaul programme. Despite this being an ideal part-time role, high-calibre candidates appeared to be thin on the ground. Where other networking attempts had failed, Women Like Us found a professional database manager who had kept her IT skills sharp by freelancing on her career break.
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A unique partnership with financial services organisation, Towry Law, has enabled a new career opportunity to be matched with the right candidates: experienced women looking to return to work.
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When Dee Wright’s business The Hairforce began expanding, she figured that women looking to get back to work would be experienced, reliable, committed and flexible. She was right. Through the Women Like Us school gates network, and using the website, she found what she needed: women like her to help build her business.
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Nick Pelmont runs a growing legal practice. He wants to employ part-time to suit his workload and his budget, but he needs experienced professionals for the roles. His decision to tap into the vast career experience of women returners has proved successful and he argues the case for looking no further than the school gates.
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When KD Partnership were looking to grow, they wanted to employ local people who could work part-time and grow with them. Having decided against regular recruitment agencies who they felt oversold their candidates, they used the Women Like Us local network who found the them the right match, right on their doorstep.
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Sally was looking for a part-time senior management role that gave her all of the challenges – and the pay rate – that she’d enjoyed before motherhood. Online searching produced only freelance options or more junior roles. Women Like Us found her two perfect part-time positions with major companies, and Sally has been able to pick up where she left off, and on her terms.
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When Alice wanted to get back to work after a break to care for her children, the problem was not a lack of opportunity but a lack of confidence. The Women Like Us coaching team helped Alice rediscover her potential and regain the self-belief that would get her working again.
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Alex hadn’t worked at all while bringing up her son, so when she wanted to pick up her career again, after several years away the whole world of work felt different and daunting. Women Like Us worked with Alex to make the jobs market real and rewarding again.
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Trained actor Anna had not had much work since the birth of her children and lacked both the confidence and the networks to restart her career. When Women Like Us coaching workshops helped open her mind to the possibility that part-time work would give her the freedom to also take acting assignments, Anna found herself in a new job that hadn’t closed the stage door on acting opportunities.
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After a six-year career break to have children, Rada felt that her former working skills had evaporated and she no longer had much to offer an employer. A Women Like Us career coach encouraged Rada to focus on the many new skills she’d learnt during her career break. Within a week of finishing the course, she’d expertly landed a senior management job.
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When the career gaps in Janet’s CV kept letting her down at interviews, Women Like Us coached her into focusing on selling her achievements rather than a career chronology. Armed with an altogether more powerful CV and whole new attitude, Janet’s skills now stood out a lot more than her four-year break.
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