Published May 26, 2023, 10:20 a.m. by Courtney
As a stay-at-home mom, you may be looking to return to the workforce. Here are some resume tips to help you get started:
1. Start by highlighting your skills and experience.
2. Include any relevant volunteer work or community involvement.
3. Be sure to list your education and any relevant coursework.
5. Use keywords from the job posting to help your resume stand out.
6. Use action verbs to describe your skills and experience.
7. proofread your resume carefully before submitting it.
By following these tips, you can create a strong resume that will help you get back into the workforce.
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don't let society make you feel as
though just because you're a mom or just
because you've been a stay-at-home mom
for three years that you are not
pressure out here in these job search
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so so much um for today's video since it
is the month of may and may is all about
celebrating moms and awarding moms and
recognizing how awesome and amazing moms
are today's video is going to share some
resume tips specifically for
stay-at-home moms who are looking to
transition back into the workforce and
back into the job market after taking
some time off let's get right into it
and really quick i have to give a
special shout out to my mom she watches
every single one of my videos you guys
without fail no matter how terrible it
is thank you mom for always sacrificing
for me and being the literally the best
mom that i could ever ask for i don't
even know what i would have asked for in
a mom but you have more than exceeded
all of that and then some i would not be
the businesswoman i am the career woman
i am just the woman i am in general
today without all of your love all of
your support and all of your
encouragement you inspire me every
single day and i love you so much and i
hope that this does not make you cry i
don't want you to cry i want you to
smile but happy mother's day and azan's
mom i love you if you didn't know there
are roughly 23 million working moms in
the united states and they make up
roughly 72 percent of the entire
workforce and when i say these women are
killing it these moms are killing it i
mean just that they are working
full-time jobs part-time jobs doing gig
jobs taking on contract roles taking on
individual projects and sometimes even
running their own small businesses all
while raising their kids and i stand i
love me a bad mama jama okay
and then you do have some moms who
choose to take a step back from their
careers and take a break from the nine
to five the 8 30 to 5 30 the 9 to 6 or
whatever the full time hustle and bustle
is to focus on raising their children
and manage their households and there is
nothing wrong with that and regardless
of the reason why they choose to do this
they should not be shamed for it they
should not be judged and they should not
be viewed any differently they still
have value and they're still pretty busy
like stay-at-home moms i don't know how
you guys do it literally trying to
manage my own home and work and it's
just me is a lot i do not know how you
guys do it with like one kid two kids
sometimes three kids it's a lot like how
are y'all surviving
but once stay-at-home moms decide that
they are ready to get back into the job
market for whatever reason so maybe baby
is now headed off to daycare or baby is
now headed into kindergarten in first
grade and now you're ready to get back
into the workforce or maybe you just
feel like it's just that time for you to
just get back into it it can be a little
challenging so a little challenging so
first things first is like how do you
put stay-at-home mom on your resume
right what do you include what tasks and
responsibilities should you have on
there should you give yourself the title
instead of stay-at-home mom and then
number two is that it can be a little
intimidating and sometimes stay-at-home
moms are apprehensive to explain the
true reason why they may have taken some
time off to raise their children so
maybe they may not feel comfortable
outwardly just straight up saying yeah i
took some time off to be a statement a
stay-at-home mom because they're afraid
of mom bias which is very real and sadly
there is a lot of stigma that
stay-at-home moms face when they are
trying to get back into the job market
when they're searching for jobs when
they're going on interviews and even
once they start the job the moment that
someone may get wind of the fact that
they are a mom or that they're a mother
or that they took some time off of work
to raise their kids instantly sometimes
they get judged and they get viewed
through a different lens
sometimes they face questions from
recruiters or interviewers about if
they're really ready to get back into
the market so are you really ready to
like part ways with spending time with
your kids all day which why should that
even be a question i mean obviously if
the person is applying to the job
clearly they're interested i don't even
know why we have to dig that deep into
it and then moms do face questions about
their dedication and if they're truly
committed to you know the role 100 even
though they're a mom which i don't even
know again why that is a thing because
moms are some of the best project
managers task managers time management
people that i have ever met okay
especially my mom she will manage like a
gazillion things all at once like most
moms do
and then lastly moms are questioned
sometimes on where work falls on their
list of priorities which i don't even
know why
you would expect me to choose my job
over my kid because obviously
and none of these questions are cool
like i don't like bias i don't like
stigmas i look i don't like
discrimination period that is not
something that i've ever stood for so
last month on my channel i talked about
ageism and how people
can face age discrimination during their
job search mom bias is no
is no exception like bias stigma is out
it's trash it's garbage it's whack all
of those things but we have to
acknowledge that it does exist
so if you are a mom who has decided to
take a step back from your career for
whatever reason it's okay it's fine
there's nothing wrong with it i am here
to tell you that it's fine even if other
people say something completely
different here are some resume tips
exclusively for you so number one is to
list stay-at-home mom on your resume as
you would any other job so just on your
resume how you have your former
positions listed you have your titles so
if you are accounting manager a brand
manager a marketing manager a
hospitality manager you can give
yourself the title of stay at home mom
or you can give yourself maybe like um
the lat your last name plus household
plus manager so me my last name is
thompson i'll use myself as an example
if i was a stay-at-home mom i could say
you know thompson household manager
and you can also use your last name plus
the household as the company name so
again using myself as an example if i
were a stay-at-home mom returning to the
workforce my job title would be
stay-at-home mom or thompson household
manager company name would be thompson
household or thompson home or maybe even
thompson family home there's a couple of
different variations you can use but
those are the three that tend to be the
most effective you'll also want to
include the month in the year that you
took your hiatus do put a dash and then
do current so if you took your hiatus in
march of 2020 it would read something
like you know thompson household manager
thompson family household you know march
2020 through current so do provide a
time frame of when you started your
stay-at-home mom hiatus and when you
took your career hiatus don't not put
anything there because if your last
position is the only thing that's on
there and maybe that was two years ago
obviously they are going to have some
questions and you're going to have a
huge gap on there that needs some
explaining
number two is to outline some of the
responsibilities that you do as a mom
for your job description so for whatever
reason again i don't know why people
think that stay-at-home moms are
chilling all day like they're just
laying on the couch sipping wine sipping
mimosas watching i don't know real
housewives of beverly hills but
stay-at-home moms probably work just as
hard if not more than the average or a
regular schmeguler employee and these
are facts
as a stay-at-home mom there is probably
a lot like a lot lot of things that you
are doing all day especially if you have
multiple kids like maybe you have three
or four kids or maybe more than that
plus a dog plus a cat you know plus your
husband or maybe you have you know a
family member or a loved one who is also
staying with you there is a lot that you
have going on and there is a way to
convey that on your resume here are some
tips and maybe some examples for you so
if you are caring for a newborn or maybe
you have twins or something like that
talk about the number of bottles that
you prepare you know every day because
at the end of the day that is a
responsibility you're you're responsible
for feeding this child keeping it
healthy
keeping it alive and making sure that
that baby is taken care of from the
moment like all i was going to say from
like 9-5 but no motherhood is like a
24-hour thing oh my goodness you can
tell that i don't have kids but um you
are responsible for that child all day
every day and so you are doing a lot to
make sure every
single need of that child is met and
taken care of you can also talk about
the activities that you take your kids
to so if you have kids who are in soccer
or in badminton or who are in baseball
or football or track you can talk about
the activities that you take your kids
to and all of the things that you have
to manage as a you know a sports mom or
a soccer mom or a dance mom because i do
know that that has its own set of
responsibilities within itself so you
have you know meets that you have to go
to you have uniforms that you probably
have to order you know you probably uh
network or team up with the other
parents on certain initiatives maybe
you're doing fundraisers for the team
you can include some of that in there as
well talk about how you manage the
family budget right so nine times out of
ten not always
but moms are typically in control of
household spending so you're managing
all the money that's coming into the
household and you're allocating where it
goes so you can talk about how you set
you know the household budget for food
and for target runs and for clothes and
stuff for the kids and maybe managing
repairs you know for the house or for
your home
you can talk about the number of bills
that you pay and how you keep all of the
accounts in good standing and you make
sure all of the bills are paid on time
maybe you're managing different doctor's
appointments right especially if you may
have a child or children who have
special needs that comes with a whole
new set of priorities and
responsibilities that you as a mom have
to manage and maybe you're managing
multiple appointments throughout the
week that is something to include on
your resume and again going back to you
know maybe if you have a newborn maybe
you're managing you know the different
schedules of the checkup appointments or
the that or the vaccination or the
different shots that baby has to get and
just managing your kids schedule overall
so maybe you drop them off at school at
like 7 30 a.m or 8 o'clock am you're up
super early you know cooking the kids
breakfast making sure that they're out
to the school bus on time and then you
pick them up at three o'clock so with
the next six hour gap you know what else
are you doing you can talk about you
know how you do laundry that's all
multitasking and time management
and for additional context you can also
include the age of your kids so
sometimes moms feel
not 100 comfortable
sharing the age of their kids or even
saying that they have kids in general
again because they do face that judgment
but to provide some context of maybe the
amount of work that you are doing each
day everyone knows or everyone should
know the amount of work and care and
time and commitment that a newborn takes
so if you can say you know i'm a
stay-at-home mom and the primary
caretaker for a five-month-old someone
may know oh my goodness you know she's
probably doing so much every single day
or you know what i'm the proud
stay-at-home mom of a four-year-old
and a six-year-old
if you want to take a step further you
can always include their names as well
again do not be ashamed to boast about
being a good mom a damn good mom at that
especially if you're managing all of
these tasks while keeping your kids
healthy keeping them safe keeping them
alive making sure that they're taken
care of and then doing all these things
around the house so again doing the
laundry paying the bills making sure the
house is clean making sure there's food
in the fridge like paying your property
taxes managing you know the lawn care
like there's a lot that goes into you
being a stay-at-home mom you're just not
sitting around twiddling your thumbs
you're doing stuff and so on your resume
you want to convey and clearly
communicate the types of things that you
are doing and don't think that those
things don't have any value right so
there's this notion that you know
stay-at-home moms are just stay-at-home
moms and they don't have a lot of value
and they don't have any skills that
could not be further from the truth
there are some stay-at-home moms that i
know that are some of the best
negotiators and again time managers that
i have ever met and there is 100 value
in the things that you do even though
you're not in a traditional you know
corporate nine-to-five type of
environment you don't need to have a
full-time job to feel like you have
value as a stay-at-mom as a stay-at-home
mom you do please remember that
number three is to give a brief one to
two sentence overview of the reason why
you decided to become a stay-at-home mom
so of course when a recruiter or a
hiring manager is going to read your
mess your resume and see that you've
decided to become a stay-at-home mom
they may come to conclu they may come to
some conclusions and or they may just
want to know the reason why and you can
just give a very brief statement you
don't have to go into super detail if
you don't want to you don't have to over
share but just give a general reason why
so maybe you are a first-time mom and
this is your first child and maybe you
just really wanted to be there for a
baby in the first you know two years of
their life to be a hands-on parent to
give yourself time to adapt and maybe
that you know maternity leave just
wasn't enough time for your body to heal
and you just realized like hey i really
just want to focus 100 on motherhood
or maybe you have been a working mom for
several years and you have just decided
you know what it's time for me to take a
break you know maybe my daughter or my
son is headed off to i don't know high
school or maybe junior high or maybe
they're going into elementary school and
maybe you just want to be a more
hands-on parent because you realize that
you haven't been maybe you realize you
were missing milestones or you weren't
able to be available for extracurricular
activities so maybe you missed some
dance recitals or some plays or some
basketball games that's okay too just
give a brief one-liner two-sentence max
on why you decided to become a
stay-at-home mom
and doing this and being this
transparent on upfront just eliminates
the hiring manager jumping to
conclusions or asking you these type of
questions in the interview you can also
include that one liner or that brief
little blurb in your cover letter as
well so they can read it in your clever
letter before they get to your resume
and they already know it they're you
know they're up to date they're up to
speed and then they you know also read
it again in your resume so in the
interview that may be a question that
they have that they may be able to skip
now so you've kind of knocked out maybe
two to three or even one to three
questions regarding why you decided to
become a stay-at-home mom
and again for whatever the reason do not
feel ashamed do not feel you know like
you have to hide it there is nothing
wrong with being a stay-at-home mom
listed proudly listed confidently and
you never know if the recruiter is also
a mom that can automatically be a way to
build rapport and to get the
conversation off on a good foot and to
allow them to maybe extend a little bit
more compassion or a little bit more
empathy because they're able to relate
to you and vice versa it can work to
your advantage and i'm all about using
anything and everything to your
advantage when it comes to getting a job
number four is to list mom groups and
organizations or communities that you've
become a part of as a mom or that you're
a member of as a mom so think local
community groups think facebook groups
think you know maybe the pta or any type
of school-based organizations that
you're a part of again going back to the
dance mom um example so maybe you are on
the board or maybe you're a really
active member in helping the kids get
ready for their recitals or maybe you
drive um the little pickup van to pick
all the kids up before practice and you
drop everybody off and you take them
back home that's something that you want
to put on there
because contrary to popular belief it
does count as experience and it also
demonstrates communication collaboration
teamwork and being able to work as part
of a group virtual groups and in person
groups so i know there are a lot of like
facebook groups out there and then you
have like there are some youtube groups
and then you have all types of online
communities right it doesn't matter if
it's virtual
or if it's in person if you are a member
and you're active and you're helping
plan events or you're helping you're
you're attending all of the events and
you're just very hands-on and you're at
every single event and you're doing
every fundraiser maybe you're printing
flyers that's something that you want to
put on there lastly if you have received
any awards or any recognition or any
kudos in these groups so maybe you were
the primary reason why the bake sale you
know sold 24 more cookies this year
because you
started using instagram stories to
promote it right maybe uh with the dance
team you were able to boost audience
participation or audience attendance by
30
by you know getting family members of
the kids who are dancing more involved
or something like that i'm just riffing
off the top of my head but if you
received any recognition if you played a
crucial part in the group succeeding
something or really accomplishing
something you definitely want to put
that on your resume number five is to
include the fact that you are a
returning mom or a stay a stay-at-home
mom that's getting back into the
workforce in your professional summary
so either in the first line or the first
sentence of your professional summary or
your professional overview or the first
bullet whichever one that you're using
make it known that you are a mama who is
ready to get back into the game just go
ahead and tackle that head on you don't
have to have the recruiter or the hiring
manager read all the way through your
information get to your experience and
then see that you're a stay-at-home mom
again put it in the cover letter put it
you know in your targeting statement and
then go ahead and put it in your
professional summary so you're making it
known like hey i'm ready to get back
into the swinging things or swing of
things i've taken some time off but i'm
ready now i'm returning you don't have
to say anything along the lines of you
know stay at home mom returning to the
workforce looking for a new opportunity
to do it or not because then it sounds
like an objective statement and that's
not what we want you want to go ahead
and just have it in the first sentence
but then launch directly into your
values so maybe you know a returning a
stay-at-home mom returning to the
workforce with you know 10 years of
experience in marketing
and experience managing 24 million
budgets just have that as the beginning
but then jump right into the value and
jump right into all of that quality
information and last on this list number
six is to choose the best layout that is
going to highlight your experience and
your skills so there are several types
of resume formats and layouts the most
popular is chronological specifically
reverse chronological and that is when
you list your jobs from the most recent
down to you know the
first one or the the beginning one and
then you have a hybrid resume which is a
blend of both and then you have a
functional resume which more so focuses
on
types of experience that are grouped
together so if you have been in
accounting for seven years and then you
were in marketing for three years and
now you're looking to transition into i
don't know let's say electrical
engineering again going off the top of
my head then you may use something along
the lines of a hybrid resume maybe not a
reverse chronological resume because
having that last position first they may
be like okay well she was a brand
manager or she was an accountant why is
she looking to you know do something
like this however if you are going back
into the workforce and you're continuing
along the same career path so you were a
marketing manager before and you're
going maybe for a marketing director
role then you are going to want to use a
reverse chronological format because
obviously your experience is already in
alignment
with functional and hybrid resumes they
are typically used for people who are
transitioning careers or people who have
like a lot of different types of
experience so again maybe you were an
accountant for two years maybe you were
a brand manager for three years and then
maybe you you know did electrical
engineering for two or three years and
then maybe you bopped over to i don't
know marine biology for four years those
are some examples where you may use a
resume format that's different from the
typical reverse chronological resume but
regardless of the format and the layout
that you ultimately select you
definitely want to make sure that it
starts out with that hard-hitting
professional summary y'all know i love
me a really good value-based keyword
enriched professional summary and then
you also want to make sure that you have
your related skills and competencies and
your related education certifications
educational accomplishments licenses and
things like that and of course if you
are part of any organizations
professional memberships you want to
have that on there as well and just as a
rule of thumb so that you know your
professional summary should be no more
than three to five sentences or three to
five bullet points and you should be
displaying at least seven skills but no
more than maybe 12 to 15.
so those are some simple resume tips for
stay-at-home moms who are looking to
craft a new resume to go ahead and get
right back into the job market i hope
that you found this helpful and please
do not get discouraged right like don't
let society make you feel as though just
because you're a mom or just because
you've been a stay-at-home mom for three
years that you are not pressure out here
in these job search streets and that you
are not able to perform in the workplace
like no you have value even though you
may have taken some time off you may not
be up to date with certain systems and
software but you definitely still have
some value and you definitely still have
a lot to bring to the table if you
enjoyed watching this video or if you
found it helpful when you learn
something new go ahead and give me a
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and feel free to comment below if you
know something in this video or a
particular tip stood out to you um if
you need assistance with your resume and
you are a stay-at-home mom i am
accepting clients for the month of may
feel free to email me directly at hello
thompsonresumes.com
you can also visit my website at
www.thomsonresumes.com
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and again shout out to all of the
amazing moms out there i feel like you
guys only get
true recognition during the month of may
but moms are amazing i've seen first
hand with some co-workers like just how
they sacrifice for their kids and how
their kids motivate them at work and and
motivate them to you know get through
the work day and even put up with
certain things moms truly don't get the
recognition that they deserve all the
time so again if you are a mom and
you're watching this video shout out to
you round of applause to you because i
am more than confident that you are
probably doing an amazing job and i hope
that you found this video helpful and it
provided you with some tips on how to
craft your resume for your upcoming job
search if you need additional job search
support or just need some job search
ideas i highly recommend checking out
the job search playlist that i have on
my channel i do have a lot of videos on
there talking about how to create a
tactical and intentional job search
strategy and some job search mistakes to
avoid go ahead and check them out if you
do need that type of content
thank you guys so much for watching
especially if you made it to the end of
this video and i will see you all next
week with another video that is either
going to help change or upgrade your
entire career resume linkedin
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