To all participants of the JUMP Forum: Thank you all very much for having answered our questionnaire! You will find a lot of new photos of the conference on the site of the Forum. The feed back you gave us was encouraging: 90% of you believe that it is important and necessary to organize an event which is focussing on the professional life of women, 65% said that the Forum fully met their expectations and needs, and 35% said this was the case partially. These positive results led us to daring a new step: We decided to organize workshops and training sessions on a regular basis, all year long, at reasonable prices, tackling diverse subjects ranging from: How to draw up a financial plan… to.. Effective organization of family life. In short, the content of the workshops will reflect your own personality, interests and activities, as well as your ability to multitask! Today, I have the pleasure to announce the launch of JUMP Women´s Academy! The first workshop will take place on September 4, and is aiming at professional women who want to enhance their or their firm´s visibility in the media. Our expert will be Madeleine Dembour of UWE (Union Wallonne des Entreprises). Future seminars will also be offered in English and Dutch. We will inform you about the programme very soon. If you have any suggestions with regards to the programme, please forward them to us.

Source: Column "Alfavrouwtjes" van Inge Geerdens in De Tijd, 20 Dec. 07

Een goeie vriendin kreeg onlangs de bons. Niet van haar werkgever, maar van haar vriend. Die C4 had ze niet zien aankomen. Blijkbaar ging het haar professioneel meer voor de wind dan privé. Dat was overigens meteen ook de reden. Haar ex-minnaar kreeg het niet verkropt dat zijn kleine prinsesje op het werk de lakens uitdeelt en ook thuis al eens van zich afbijt. Hij vond het moeilijk samenleven met een vrouw die, net als hijzelf overigens, haar ambities niet onder stoelen of banken steekt.

Source: Mirella Visser in www.europeanpwn.net

Mirella Visser, President of the European Professional Women’s Network, gives her view on the “perceived lack of supply” with regards to women board candidates. In her editorial article of May 2008 “Solving the supply issues for women in top positions” she states that… “Common perceptions about what board members ‘look like’ may hinder companies from recognising and validating the talent in front of them.” The good news: there are already initiatives to promote women candidates. Read the full article.

Source: Sylvie De Bruyn van Unique

Sylvie De Bruyn, gespecialiseerde consulente bij Unique Outplacement en Annick Hellebuyck, 46 jaar, kandidate in een outplacementtraject op zoek naar authenticiteit, delen met ons hun onderlinge ervaringen.

Source: Adena Berkman Conway in www.nafe.com

Many women are opting out of the traditional corporate 9-to-5 jobs by choosing to start their own businesses. In America, 15.6 million women have left traditional jobs to venture into the entrepreneurial world (more than twice the rate of men). That means , an exciting and rewarding career choice, but one worth examining carefully before taking the leap.

Source: Corinne Dillenseger in www.lentreprise.com

Vous travaillez, vous avez des enfants et vous vous demandez comment tout mener de front. Les conseils de Christine Lewicki, coach pour mères ambitieuses pour vous en sortir et quelques astuces pour gagner du temps avec Magali Clausener, auteur du Guide des femmes qui travaillent et qui réussissent. Quelles sont les principales difficultés que rencontrent les mères qui travaillent ? « Elles sont tiraillées par des priorités conflictuelles : elles souhaiteraient pouvoir s'investir davantage auprès de leur famille mais aussi plus dans leur carrière..

Als je kiest voor het moederschap en om je te kunnen uitleven in je job, moet je aanvaarden dat er gedurende een periode weinig tijd overblijft voor jezelf of voor cultuur. Maar dit zijn dan zaken die je later weer terug kan oppikken.

Osez! Le monde a besoin des Femmes!

Source: Article par Sophie Carquain dans Le Figaro.fr Madame

Constat alarmant : de plus en plus, les femmes souffrent de dépendances. Obsession de l’excellence, pression professionnelle, peur du lendemain… Les explications du psychiatre William Lowenstein et de la sociologue Christine Castelain-Meunier. Voici l´interview de Sophie Carquain avec les deux experts: "Consultations, cliniques spécialisées et livres se multiplient… Depuis quatre, cinq ans, l’ addict attitude semble beaucoup progresser. Pourquoi ?"

Source: Mirella Visser on www.europeanpwn.net

There are as many definitions of networking as there are networkers and even more opinions about the value of networking. Some of us start running for the door when the word comes up, expecting aggressive selling and overwhelming promotions of less than average products by people with more than average ‘flux de bouche’. After all, if you or your product is that good, you don’t need to sell them because people will actually come up and hire you or buy your product just like that. So why network? Right?

Source: www.womenlobby.org

The European Women’s Lobby has just produced a Resource Kit on Institutional Mechanisms for the Promotion of Equality between Women and Men. The EWL Resource Kit presents information about existing public institutions dealing with equality between women and men at international, European and national level. It aims at helping NGOs and other interested actors to evaluate and influence international and European institutions as well as their national governments and enable them to strengthen weak or inefficient institutional mechanisms dealing with women’s rights and gender equality.

BELGACOM IS LOOKING FOR HIGH POTENTIAL CANDIDATES FOR:

INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNT MANAGER (BELGACOM)
LEAD BUYER (TELINDUS)

BUSINESS SERVICE ASSISTANT (PROXIMUS)

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Source: Matthew Kirdahy, 28 May 2008, in www.forbes.com

Gender science tells us that women are more likely than men to remember they even read this story. In Leadership and the Sexes: Using Gender Science to Create Success in Business, Michael Gurian and Barbara Annis offer decades of experience so we can decide who is better at what in the business world. But it turns out that it's not a question of better, just different.

Public cible : les femmes entrepreneurs ou celles responsables de la communication de leur entreprise
Animation : Madeleine Dembour, Responsable communication de l’Union Wallonne des Entreprises et auteur du livre « qui a peur des journalistes ? »
Coût : 90€ htva pour toute inscription avant le 18 août ou 110€ htva après.
Information et inscription : academy@blogjump.eu

Op maandagavond 9 juni a.s. van 20.00 tot 21.30 uur vindt er bij Women Inc, Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam een bijzondere bijeenkomst plaats voor de deelnemers van Opportunity in Bedrijf. Op het programma staat een debat over de vraag hoe de zichtbaarheid van vrouwen in organisaties kan worden vergroot. Waarom is talent en ambitie van vrouwen vaak niet zichtbaar en waarom wordt het minder (h)erkend?

In the aim of improving the visibility of the role of women in post-conflict peacebuilding and that of wars' impact on women, UNIFEM opened new offices in Brussels. Being close to the EU institutions will facilitate the exchange of best practises, improve information and contribute to the more systematic mainstreaming of gender equality issues in EU Development policies says Osnat Lubrani, UNIFEM Brussels office Director.