--- title: Are “Relaunchers” The New Interns? Rejoining the Marketing Department After a Career Interruption description: Here is some info for you if you are looking to relaunch a marketing career or considering hiring someone for your marketing department. image: https://www.jonespr.net/hubfs/Blog_Images/Blog_268_Marketing_Job.jpg --- [![](https://www.jonespr.net/hubfs/Blog_Images/Blog_268_Marketing_Job.jpg) ](https://www.jonespr.net/eight-arms-blog/are-relaunchers-the-new-interns-rejoining-the-marketing-department-after-a-career-interruption) # Are “Relaunchers” The New Interns? Rejoining the Marketing Department After a Career Interruption BY:   [ Kristin Jones ](https://www.jonespr.net/eight-arms-blog/author/kristin-jones) ![Are “Relaunchers” The New Interns? Rejoining the Marketing Department After a Career Interruption](https://www.jonespr.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Blog_Images/Blog_268_Marketing_Job.jpg?width=550&name=Blog_268_Marketing_Job.jpg "Are “Relaunchers” The New Interns? Rejoining the Marketing Department After a Career Interruption")  Not everyone is able to follow a traditional career path. There are a variety of reasons great people sometimes have to interrupt their career: caring for family members (children or aging parents), health crises, moves for a spouse’s career, or even returning to school full-time in order to change to a new career field. Relaunching isn’t always easy, as Carol Fishman Cohen notes in her [TEDTalk](http://www.ted.com/talks/carol_fishman_cohen_how_to_get_back_to_work_after_a_career_break). But it can be worth the risk and work, for both the employee looking to jump back into the workplace and the business that hires them. Cohen says relaunchers should: - Go public with their job search and start networking. - Expect to have a lot of conversations that don’t go anywhere. (In other words, don’t let yourself get down when your first few meetings don’t result in a job offer.) - Reacquaint yourself with the market, new technology and approaches, and brush up on basic office software skills. *(Note: This blog is full of information and resources to bring you up to speed on inbound marketing.)* Businesses benefit from employees who are now likely to be at a more stable point in their lives (children are grown, so less time missed caring for them. Relaunchers offer a mature perspective, and because they are relaunching, they have a new energy and enthusiasm for being back in their field. Are you looking to relaunch a marketing career or considering hiring someone who has been out of the workforce for some time? 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