Article: Decisions - Career breaks - Break or brake? Staff development is crucial to retaining good staff. But do sabbaticals and the like actually help employees' careers or hold them back?

Article: Capitalising in quality personnel
Credit Management;  January 1, 2006 ;     423 words ... ... McTiffin FICM, Managing Director, comments: "The number of top credit professionals I have seen leave the industry through 'career breaks' for many and varied reasons, made us think about how I could use their skills, experience and expertise to deliver benefits ...

Article: Media Inspires International Help - Brits' Top 10 Career ...
PR Newswire Europe;  January 9, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... work into their extended holidays and career breaks - particularly to get involved in humanitarian ... rapidly changing, and people taking career breaks now account for around a third of all ... were surveyed to find out the top 10 career breaks which people are incorporating into ...

Article: Career breaks can make sound business ...
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  October 5, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... careers consultant Tony Charles says that career breaks and sabbaticals are not just for the ... more employers are recognising that career breaks not only benefit staff but also make ... questioned in a recent survey agreed that career breaks help staff broaden their horizons ...

Article: MIRROR JOBS: Make career breaks work.(Features)
The Mirror (London, England);  May 20, 2004 ;     678 words ... ... skilled staff that they are promoting career breaks as an enticement to retain female executives ... spokeswoman for NIjobs.com said: "Career breaks are increasingly being offered by companies ... are, however, drawbacks to using career breaks for parenthood. "A career break lasting ...

Article: Career breaks
British Journal of Perioperative Nursing;  August 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... outlines some of the possibilities for career breaks within the NHS. What is a career break ... and leave * employees who return from career breaks refreshed, with a wider experience ... career. What are the pitfalls? Career breaks cost a minimum amount to organise ...

Article: Career breaks need fixing
The Independent - London;  April 11, 1999 ;     700+ words ...People take career breaks for a variety of reasons. Bringing ... more proactive in their approach to career breaks. Susan Small, a member of Women ... minimising disruption. Yet not all career breaks occur through choice, and it is ...

Article: Get out of the office - for a year or two Sabbaticals and ...
The Independent - London;  March 19, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... offer sabbaticals (paid breaks) or career breaks (unpaid breaks). Although Britain ... says spokeswoman Fenella Burns. Career breaks - which are generally longer than sabbaticals ... Most often, according to research, career breaks are taken for the purposes of travelling ...