If this author had gone through a traditional publisher, this would never have been published without extensive edits and ensuring proper typography and formatting. On some pages the text (see the photos) is so tiny that even with reading glasses, they are really hard to make make out because the page didn't print at full size. On pressing on with reading this, I found I ended up skimming it because it was all common sense and basically useless. No tips about job hunting or dealing with prejudice and ageism other than what anyone would already know. It's like a really long blog post where the author pretends she is informing people who know nothing. Believe me, if you've been in the work place and especially if you've been to college, there is nothing in this book that is useful. We didn't forget how the world works just because we took some time off for our kids or whatever. Also, the anti-stay-at-home bias in this book is real. I knew about it going in from the other reviewer, but I thought perhaps she was just oversensitive, but, goodness, it's bad, really bad. Just because 85% of women want to go back to work (of those they interviewed which could be a biased selection), that doesn't mean they hate not working or hate being home with their kids, etc. You can see in the photo that the part where she says "Having young children is a temporary condition" and the phrase "temporary condition" is bolded. The last real problem with this book is the use of grey text that is very hard to read. Don't read this book in low light, because that just isn't going to work very well. In fact, the kindle version might work better since you might be able to zoom into the areas that are way too small--if it's even like that in the kindle version. I haven't seen the kindle version, so that could be worse in other ways considering the terrible formatting in this book. I think this topic is a very necessary one today, thus my buying the book, but I don't think this one will do much for you. Just take a little time to think what skills you have that you developed while away from work and how that might be applied in the workplace, create and rehearse your story for your interviews like anyone would (when they ask what you did during your "break", tell them, then tell them briefly how those skills that you developed will make you better at your job), then use regular job hunting books for the actual job hunting process. You can figure out the rest on your own. In recent years, I've basically given up on writing reviews on Amazon (I've written many in the past as you can see), but this book was so bad that I wanted to save others from wasting their time and money. Now I have to figure how if it's worth driving it back to a store to get my $6 back.