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How a Career Gap Helped One Woman Pivot From Teaching to Tech Recruitment
Episode 43 of The Comeback Career Podcast explores the story of Maria Chen, a former middle school math teacher who spent two years at home raising her children, then re-entered the workforce as a technical recruiter at a fast-growing SaaS company. Lucas and Luna unpack the specific skills Maria transferred—classroom management, stakeholder communication, data-driven scheduling—and how she used a free online certification and a targeted networking strategy to land a role that paid 15 percent more than her teaching salary. They also discuss the structural changes in education and tech that…
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