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Hire
My Mum 'is' the invention of necessity.
For
me, frustration this time was the mother of invention.
After closing a retail business due to the pressures
of trying to balance work and raising a young family,
I scoured the local papers for a more practical source
of income that could be done from home, while looking
after 2 young boys. I thought I couldn't be the only
mum wanting to stay with her kids but still contribute
financially to the family.
I
knew there had to be employers and business owners
that would let me use my years of experience in
marketing, database management and project management
to complete jobs they couldn't afford a full time
employee to do.
After
a frustrating search, everything I found seemed to be
just a scam. Determined to do something about it, I
founded 'Hire My Mum' to assist myself, and other
mothers like me, who wanted to stay at home with their
kids but still contribute to the household income.
It's
a fact that everyday, working women leave work to have
babies. People from all walks of life are affected,
teachers, receptionists, sales people, secretaries -
and in the process, dozens of businesses lose skilled
workers. There's obviously a need to fill that gap.
The
idea of a service that connects mothers, with a
variety of business skills and experience between
them, with business owners requiring contractors or
employees to work on full time, part time and one off
projects was not necessarily unique but not adequately
supported. This opened a huge gap in the employment
market place just waiting for an entrepreneur or a 'mumpreneur', with
the right idea.
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