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[quote=Anonymous]Tend to agree with PP.

Add the SAH time as SAH, but provide a hefty list of community involvement, wording it carefully so that the organization skills that you honed these 8 years are fully displayed.

Managing PTA duties puts you in contact with folks from a wide range of culture and backgrounds, with various levels of motivations and diverging interests. Being able to herd that, and showing some level of success as measured by numbers (raised PTA membership, raised participation in PTA programs, brought in new programs, Raised the PTA budget by $$$, etc).

Talk about budgets -- realizing that a PTA budget is perhaps in line with a mid level manager (anywhere from $20K to $100K seems typical). Make sure that number is visible. Talk about the vendor relationships you have forged, and your involvement with the school staff. Present it in an analytical fashion, under community involvement, and I bet even the above posters will stop looking at it as "reaching" and more as true and relevant experience.

Also use LinkedIn to research your targeted companies, and invest in a premium account. Look for the teams where many folks have similar commmunity involvemeent (links) -- they will be the people who will understand and value your talent.

Talk about conflict resolution, meeting management skills, keeping the new principal and next year's PTA president from biting each other's head before they have even started to serve -- all with a calm and polite attitude.

Read books on corporate life (Sales, Executive, Management) -- so that you are able to articulate your skills using the business jargon. Make sure you are familiar with the software tools -- and their newer releases (Office Suite, Project, etc). Look for jobs helping Marketing, Sales, Office Management -- and grow from there.

In the end, everyone likes an enthusiastic and effective worker. And usually, the experienced mom coming back in the workforce tends to have those qualities.

As a working mom, who is involved in my community, I actually find the first two comments aggressively misogynistic. I don't want to hijack this thread for that conversation, but really, there are serious jobs out there valuing people by what they know, and not by their labels. The C-Level executive and recruiter above maybe need to try taking some of these community responsibilities on before deciding they are worthless "in the real world'.

Don't forget that as PTA president / Treasurer / etc, you probably already have experience organizing folks like them, because that is who shows up  at PTA meetings -- even if those two apparently don't, or don't quite understand what's involved.[/quote]

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