For a mother who has been out of the workforce raising her children an excellent first place to stop is a staffing firm who will help her do a skills inventory checklist. She may have skills that even she can't identify that are in demand or she may need help picking up the skills she lacks.

It's essential that you allow reps from the company to come to your office and get as much information as possible about the position.

You may wish to not work on a full-time basis to begin with but to make the transition a little more gradually.

Our member firms are able to offer people training and offer them a variety of different assignments so they get exposed to different kinds of settings.