Working document
The eight week relaunch program checklist
The full sequence for taking a client from a ten year gap to a first interview, in the order that keeps her moving instead of polishing.
Free resources
Resources for career relaunch coaches
Everything here is built for the coach running the program, not for the candidate, and all of it works whether or not you use our software.
Return to work coaching sits in an awkward gap between career services, resume writing and executive coaching, and almost nothing published for those fields addresses a client with an eleven year break, a target list she is scared to write, and a resume a parser will mangle. These resources address that work directly.
You will find two calculators, one for pricing a relaunch package from real delivery hours and one for modeling how long a client needs to reach a first interview, plus honest comparisons against the coaching platforms and job search trackers you are likely evaluating, and the eight week program checklist we run ourselves. Take what is useful and ignore the rest.
Free tools
Free calculators for career relaunch coaches
Two small tools that answer the two questions relaunch coaches get wrong most often: what a program actually costs to deliver, and how long a first interview really takes.
Comparisons
How RelaunchDesk compares to the other tools relaunch coaches evaluate
If you coach women back into paid work after a career break, the tool you pick decides whether you manage a program or manage a spreadsheet.
Main guide
How do I build an eight week relaunch program a client will actually finish?
It settles the week by week structure of a relaunch program, including the milestone order that gets a client from a long gap to a first interview without stalling.
Magazine
The Relaunch Practice
Working guidance for coaches who move women back into paid roles: program design, pricing, hiring law and the return to work market.
About
Who writes all of this
The author page covers who writes these guides, the return to work clients the eight week program was built around, and why the target list is always finished before the resume is touched.
Take the checklist and keep the sequence
Everything on this page runs from a printed sheet and none of it needs our software, which is how it was written. If you would rather have the evidence inventory, the target employer list and the interview debriefs in one caseload view instead of four documents and a spreadsheet, a demo shows exactly that. Bring the eight week checklist with you and we will walk it stage by stage.