Returning to Work
After Maternity Leave?
We’ve Got You.
Whether you’re back to work after a career break of 6 months or 6 years — your experience, resilience, and skills are still very much in demand. We give women returning to work the practical tools, returnship guides, and community to land their next role with confidence.
Six Challenges Every
Career Relauncher Faces
Imposter Syndrome
Feeling like you’ve fallen behind or are no longer relevant — even when your skills and instincts are sharper than ever.
Skills & Upskilling Anxiety
Worrying about technology changes and industry shifts. A targeted 2–4 week skills refresh is usually all it takes.
Explaining the Career Gap
Not knowing how to frame your career break on your resume or LinkedIn without apology. We’ll show you how to own it.
Interview Confidence
Dreading “so what have you been doing?” We have word-for-word answer frameworks that turn the gap into a strength.
Salary Negotiation
Returning women often undersell themselves. Our salary research guide helps you know your number and hold it.
Going It Alone
Navigating a career restart without a mentor, a returner network, or women who genuinely get what you’re going through.
Everything You Need
to Relaunch Your Career
Step-by-step playbooks for returning to work after maternity leave or a long career break — from mindset reset to first day back.
Return-to-work resume templates, career gap explanation scripts, and interview prep guides built specifically for career relaunchers.
Curated returnship programs, mom-friendly companies, and flexible remote jobs for women ready to restart their careers.
Real Women.
Real Career Relaunches.
I was certain no one would hire me after three years off. GGBW gave me a 90-day roadmap and the language to own my story. I landed a senior role in 7 weeks.
The return-to-work resume template alone changed everything. My callback rate went from zero to four interviews in one week. I’m back at a company I love.
GGBW helped me reframe my caregiving years as exactly what they are: transferable leadership experience. I walked into every interview differently — and got the job.
Guides Women Are Reading
How to Explain a Career Gap on Your Resume (7 Real Examples)
Skills to Update Before Returning to Work After a Career Break
Returnship Programs 2026: 25 US Companies Hiring Returners Right Now
Free: The Complete
Return-to-Work Guide
The exact 90-day roadmap 3,200+ women used to go from career break to hired — covering resume gaps, returnship programs, interview prep, and salary negotiation. Free, no fluff.
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Built by Women
Who Came Back
Girl, Get Back to Work was born from a real frustration: there was no honest, practical guide for women returning to work after maternity leave or a career break. So we built one — and helped over 3,200 women restart their careers.
The Career Break
Penalty Is Real.
We’re Changing It.
Women returning to work after maternity leave face a compounding set of barriers: skills anxiety, imposter syndrome, resume gaps, and a job market that can penalise absence over competence. It’s unfair. And with the right support, it’s entirely fixable.
Our platform closes that gap — with free returnship guides, return-to-work resume templates, interview prep tools, and a community of career relaunchers who understand exactly what you’re navigating right now.
“Our mission is to make returning to work after a career break feel less like starting over — and more like coming home.”
The Values Behind Our
Career Restart Mission
Empathy Before Advice
We meet you where you are. No judgment about how long you’ve been away, why you left, or what your career break looked like.
Practical Over Inspirational
Actionable return-to-work plans, not vague pep talks. Every guide we publish moves your job search one step forward.
Returners Over Competition
Women lifting women. We share what works, celebrate every interview, and treat every career comeback as a win worth cheering.
Confidence Is a Learned Skill
Imposter syndrome after maternity leave is real and normal. We have evidence-based strategies to rebuild it, step by step.
Our Vision for
Women Returning to Work
A world where career breaks are recognised as what they are: evidence of resilience, leadership, and prioritisation — not absence of commitment. Where every woman returning to work after maternity leave has the returnship resources, community, and confidence to land the role she deserves.
Guides for Women
Returning to Work
Practical returnship guides, resume advice, confidence strategies, and job search tips — written specifically for women returning to work after maternity leave or a career break.
Trending
How to Explain a Career Gap on Your Resume (7 Real Examples)
A resume gap is not a red flag — it’s a story you haven’t told yet. Here’s how to frame your career break as a strength, with real before-and-after examples.
Trending
Returnship Programs 2026: 25 US Companies Hiring Returners Right Now
Returnships are paid, structured re-entry programs designed specifically for career relaunchers. Here are the 25 best in the US right now.
How to Rebuild Confidence After Maternity Leave (Without Faking It)
Imposter syndrome after maternity leave is real, common, and entirely beatable. Research-backed strategies that rebuild confidence from the inside out.
Skills to Update Before Returning to Work After a Career Break
The skills gap feels bigger than it usually is. A targeted 2–4 week upskilling plan is often all it takes to feel genuinely ready.
Changing Jobs After Maternity Leave: Return, Negotiate, or Switch?
Not sure whether to return to your old role, negotiate flex arrangements, or find a new job? A practical decision framework with real conversation scripts.
Trending
Resume for Stay-at-Home Moms Returning to Work: A Full Rebuild Guide
Every section of your resume rebuilt for the career relauncher. Downloadable templates and gap-framing language that turns caregiving into leadership.
Free Guides for Women
Returning After a Career Break
Resume templates, returnship trackers, salary negotiation scripts, and interview prep guides — all free, all built for women returning to work after maternity leave or a career break.
90-Day Career Restart Roadmap
The step-by-step plan 3,200+ women used to go from career break to hired. Covers mindset reset, skills audit, resume rebuild, returnship search, and salary negotiation.
Return-to-Work Resume Template
A professionally designed resume template that frames career gaps as an asset. Built specifically for women returning to work after maternity leave. Three modern formats included.
Interview Prep Guide for Career Relaunchers
Word-for-word answers to the toughest returning-to-work interview questions — including “so what have you been doing?” Practice scripts, research checklist, and follow-up templates.
Skills Gap Self-Assessment Worksheet
An honest worksheet to identify exactly which skills need refreshing before your job search — and the fastest, most targeted way to close each gap.
Salary Research & Negotiation Guide
How to research your market rate as a career relauncher and negotiate confidently — even after years away from the salary conversation. With scripts and benchmarks.
Returner Network Reactivation Scripts
Ready-to-use LinkedIn and email templates to re-engage your dormant professional network after a career break — naturally, without the awkwardness.
Recommended Tools for
Career Relaunchers
Targeted upskilling courses to refresh your skills before returning to work
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The leading returnship program directory for career relaunchers in the US