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Back To Work: Fidelity Helps Reactivate Careers For Stay-At-Home Moms

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Julie says leaving Fidelity for seven years was a deliberate plan, not an accident.

Lauren opens with a familiar domestic joke about explaining work to a child in a grocery store. From there, she turns to a bigger question: what it looks like for moms to step away from a career and then come back. Rachel Book explains that Fidelity’s Resume program is for people who have taken a minimum two-year career break for personal reasons. The program runs in the U.S., India, and Ireland. It covers several lines of business, including financial analysts, financial planners, technologists, and operations roles. Fidelity first placed returners one at a time. It later turned that effort into a formal program. Participants enter a six-month paid role that works a lot like an internship. Fidelity offers training, skills refreshers, mentorship, and help with technology and confidence. At the end of the six months, some people are extended and some are hired full-time. Rachel says roughly 70 percent stay beyond the initial period. She also says the conversion rate to full-time employment is about 45 to 50 percent. Compensation is not one flat rate. It changes by role and location, the same way traditional jobs do. Lauren keeps the discussion practical and grounded in mom life. She asks about who applies and whether the program mostly attracts mothers. Rachel says the applicant pool is broader than that. The eligibility standard is based on the length of the break, not family status. The episode then comes back to home life and identity. Lauren talks about how she explains work to her own child. She wants her daughter to see work as meaningful, not as something that takes away from family. She describes a small move in the grocery store, where she links buying extra things to the reality of working more and seeing the child less. The child responds by putting things back, which Lauren finds funny and oddly telling. That moment captures the episode’s bigger point. Work is not abstract here. It is tied to school drop-off, shopping carts, guilt, ambition, and the daily math of family time. Rachel and Julie both come across as people who understand that returning to work is not just a career decision. It is a household decision. Lauren closes by thanking them and saying she hopes the conversation helps other moms trying to decide what comes next.

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A practical, mom-focused look at returning to work after a career break.

This episode follows moms returning to work after a career break and gives Fidelity's Resume program a clear, grounded explanation. It looks for people with at least a two-year break for personal reasons, brings them into a six-month paid internship-like program, and offers…

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If you are weighing a return to work after years at home, this one gets specific.

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