How does Mom Corps work?
Mom Corps is the industry expert for providing professionals with flexible job opportunities suited to candidates’ qualifications and scheduling needs. Candidates also are able to tap into resources such as résumé tips and job coaching. Once registered, candidates can search and apply directly to active jobs. 

Employers post jobs, search candidates through the Candidate Board, view resumes matching their criteria, and invite candidates to apply directly to their job. In addition to offering employers access to top-tier candidates through the Job Board, Mom Corps performs contingent searches for clients.

Who founded Mom Corps and why?

After a successful run in corporate America, University of Georgia and Harvard University MBA grad Allison O’Kelly had children.  Just as O’Kelly always strived to be successful professionally, she held the same standards for herself as a mother. Unfortunately, she found she was unable to find a balance between career and family in the corporate world. She decided she wanted create meaningful opportunities for a much larger community of professionals raising families while fundamentally changing the way companies fill their intermittent staffing needs–Mom Corps was born!

What makes Mom Corps distinctive?

Mom Corps is the industry’s leading business model for flexible employment.  The solution is two-fold for employers and candidates.  Mom Corps is a staffing company, and it provides professional resources including:

·        résumé assistance

·        coaching

·        job matching

Resources are found online at www.momcorps.com. Mom Corps’ staffing experts personally screen every job posted on the job board to ensure the position is both flexible and professional.  This consistency ensures both corporate clients and mom candidates can trust Mom Corps to deliver the best candidates for the best jobs.

Why do moms utilize the expertise of Mom Corps?

Mom Corps understands that mothers are in the unique position of constantly using their skills from both realms of life to produce favorable and high-quality results. Mom Corps knows the value that working mothers bring to their careers and employers, whether it is their unique ability to organize and multi-task their day or to bring both intellectual and intuitive skills to the job.

-over-

·        Among working mothers with children under 18 years old, one in five (21%) say full-time work is the ideal situation for them, down from 32% who reflected this in 1997.

·        Six in 10 working mothers (up from 48% in 1997) believe part-time work is their idea position, and another one in five (19%) indicates she would prefer not working at all outside the home.

·        Part-time work is the preferred option of about half (49%) of mothers who work full-time and a third (33%) of mothers who don’t work outside the home. 

Why do corporations utilize the expertise of Mom Corps?

Women in the United States earn 59% of bachelor’s degrees, 60% of master’s degrees, and slightly more than half of all professional degrees.

Mom Corps understands that corporations are looking for effective and economical staffing solutions.  Whether it’s filling in for a short-term disability or merely working peak hours, it allows both the business and the employee to get the job done in the most expedient, professional and profitable manner possible. Since its launch in 2005, Mom Corps has partnered with some of the nation’s most prestigious corporations including Frito Lay, Lending Tree, KPMG, Georgia Pacific, Wachovia and The Weather Channel, to help recruit and retain talented professionals who work flexibly on a project, part-time, or contract basis.

In the 2005 National Study of Employers, conducted by Families and Work Institute, 47% of employers who had implemented flexibility strategies reported that a main reason for doing so was to recruit new talent and to retain current employees.  Additionally, 25% of the same study report putting flexible practices into place to enhance the productivity and commitment of employees.

Losing high-level, skilled personnel is an expensive human resources cost for employers in a variety of sectors:

·        Law:  150% of the departing person’s yearly salary

·        Business:  93 – 200% of the departing employee’s yearly salary

·        Service Industries:  200 – 250% of the departing employee’s annual compensation

Where is Mom Corps?

Mom Corps is a national company through online resources and online job board.  Mom Corps currently has seven regions of focus including Atlanta, New York/New Jersey/Connecticut, Chicago, Boston, Washington D.C./Maryland/Northern Virginia, Charlotte and Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill.