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How a Career Gap Led to a Role in Academic Advising
In this episode of The Comeback Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how a career gap can pivot into academic advising. They follow the story of Maria, a former marketing manager who took a seven-year break to raise her children and then returned to work as an academic advisor at a community college. Lucas breaks down the skills transfer: how campaign management translates to student outreach, how budget oversight maps to scholarship administration, and how stakeholder communication prepares you for faculty coordination. Luna pushes back on the assumption that education experience is…
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