Job Genius: Mom's the Word

1/18/2012 10:03:39 PM

MORE magazine features Mom Corps CEO, Allison O'Kelly, in their series on innovators who’ve created new jobs for women.

Who: Allison O’Kelly
Founder and CEO, Mom Corps

WHAT SHE DOES
Since its launch in 2005, Mom Corps, a national job-placement firm, has found positions for thousands of experienced professional women who need flex­ible work so they can raise their families. The companies are the clients, and they pay the fee.

HOW SHE GOT THE IDEA
O’Kelly, a Harvard MBA and a CPA, was a top manager with Toys “R” Us in Atlanta when she had the first of her three children. The job and her new-mom schedule didn’t mesh, so she started her own home-based accounting and business services firm—and got so much contract work from corporations that she hired five fellow moms who also needed flexibility. That’s when she saw a niche waiting to be filled.  FULL ARTICLE

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