Courses for maternity mothers. Free correspondence education for mothers on maternity leave
Studying on parental leave is doubly beneficial. First, you can learn new specialty or deepen knowledge in the existing one, thanks to training for mothers on maternity leave, and secondly, do not let your brain relax too much.
Education for mothers on maternity leave: where to start and where to go?
If you already have higher education, on maternity leave to care for a child, you can improve your skills or learn a new profession if your previous job did not suit you in some way. At the same time, the necessary courses can be taken both remotely and offline.
Education for mothers on maternity leave is organized en masse by the Employment Center, to which you belong at the place of your registration. As a rule, this government agency offers moms to learn such professions that are in demand on the labor market, such as an accountant, a trade specialist, a hairdresser, a makeup artist, a manicurist, a seamstress, a clerk, a computer designer and some others.
In this case, training for you will be organized completely free of charge. The main thing is to decide on the specialty of interest and contact the Employment Center with the following documents: an application according to the established model, a passport and its photocopy, a child's birth certificate, official confirmation from the place of work that you are on maternity leave to care for the baby.
The training itself will take place in various universities and other educational institutions that cooperate with your Employment Center. Your class schedule will be set on an individual basis.
If you do not have the opportunity to leave the child with someone, pay attention to distance courses on the Internet, which can be taken both for a fee and for free. Again, first decide what new activity you would like to turn into a source of income, and then search the Internet for suitable courses.
At home, by the way, it is very comfortable to undergo training also for the reason that you do it at any time convenient for you.
Education for mothers on maternity leave: my experience
When I first went on maternity leave, I already roughly imagined what I would like to do. Firstly, I was attracted by the creation of my own content site, and secondly, I wanted to master financial consulting.
In December 2015, I attended a face-to-face intensive course with a well-known financial expert and head of the Center for Financial Culture Roman Argashokov, and a couple of days after the seminar I applied for distance course"Independent Financial Advisor", organized by the Institute of Financial Planning.
In just a couple of months, I successfully completed this course, although it was designed for a year, I defended final work and received a certificate (document number in the All-Russian Register of Advisors: 15/NFS/235). Now I draw up a personal financial plan for my clients, an investment portfolio in accordance with their risk profile, analyze and optimize their expenses and incomes, help clients decide on the most optimal loan program for them, and also give recommendations on tax optimization.
In addition, while on maternity leave, I also mastered an online course on creating a site on WordPress and SEO content optimization. Thanks to this, the project “The Art of Being Happy on Decree!” was born.
I would like to note that if you strongly strive to develop, you can always find time for training for mothers on maternity leave. Have you already mastered some new profession while sitting with a baby? If yes, be sure to write about it in the comments to this article! Let other mothers be inspired by our achievements too!
On maternity leave - as a manager, from maternity leave - as a designer
- writes "Star Boulevard".
Baby Oksana Panova from Bibirevo is one and a half years old. Oksana is a manager by education, before the decree she worked as an asphalt plant dispatcher.
“But our company has recently gone bankrupt, so it will not work to return to its original place,” says Oksana. – In addition, I am not very interested in management, I would like to get a second degree economic Education. But while the child is small - it does not work. Therefore, I want to at least complete some courses, to better master the computer, for example.
Oksana recently learned that metropolitan authorities adopted a program to send mothers with young children for retraining and advanced training courses, applied to the department of the Employment Center. In the spring, she will probably get a referral to study.
Who will be taken to study?
According to Ivan Parashchak, head of the Center for Employment of the North-East Administrative District, the program is aimed at ensuring that after the decree a woman enters the labor market prepared and quickly finds a job.
Any woman permanently registered in the capital who is on parental leave, including those who are unemployed or have not worked at all before, can receive a referral to free courses under this program.
You need to contact the employment departments of the Employment Center at the place of your registration (in the North-East Administrative Okrug there are five such departments).
Leadership in Accounting
Now the Employment Center of the North-Eastern Administrative Okrug determines the list of professions and educational institutions where young mothers will be taught.
“We are asking the women who have applied to us what courses they would be interested in completing,” says Galina Serkova, head of the department at the Center for Employment of the North-Eastern Administrative Okrug. “At the same time, we take into account how much the profession is in demand on the labor market. So far, the desires of women and the needs of the market are more or less the same.
At the moment, according to the results of the survey, advanced training courses for accountants are in the lead. In the three years that women spend at home with babies, much has changed in this area, so such courses would help accountants "stay in the ranks." Many want to take computer courses, including studying various 1C programs. Some women wished to study as an interior designer, improve their skills as a nurse, and complete driving courses.
“When a young mother contacts us, we look at her education (by the way, almost everyone has a higher education), who she worked before the decree,” says Alina Karsanova, deputy. Director of the Center for Employment of the SVAO. We are interested in what courses she would like to study. If she finds it difficult to choose, we suggest that she go through a career guidance to find courses that correspond to the level of her work experience and education.
By the way, you can go to study in another city. If mom suddenly chose a unique profession, which is taught only on the other side of the country. In this case, she will be paid not only tuition, but also travel, will be given 100 rubles per day and 550 rubles a day to pay for accommodation.
Parental leave is a great time to learn something new. Often, it is on maternity leave that a woman begins to think: does she like her current job or is it time to retrain and even get additional education.
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AT Chelyabinsk region implemented Government program"Promotion of employment of the population of the Chelyabinsk region for 2015-2019". One of the directions of the program is the organization of vocational training and additional vocational education women who are on maternity leave until they reach the age of three.
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How to take part in the program?
1. Contact the employment center in your area.
2. Take with you your passport or a document replacing it, the birth certificate of the child (children), a copy of the document related to work and confirming that you are on parental leave.
3. Fill out an application (a sample can be taken at the employment center or on the website www.szn74.ru).
An employment service specialist will select a profession (specialty) taking into account your wishes, education, professional qualifications, and the end date of parental leave.
Important! Obtaining higher or secondary vocational education in the direction of the employment service is not provided. Training lasts from 1 to 5 months, depending on the chosen specialty.
Women undergo retraining and advanced training at courses in professions: accountant, cook, confectioner, nurse, paramedic, cutter, hairdresser, manicurist, personnel manager, teacher preschool education, photographer, administrator, clerk, computer and computer operator (with specialization), etc.
After training, a woman can leave the decree to her former place of work or try herself in a new profession at a new workplace.
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Zhangabulova Lilia, mother of three children, lives in the village of Narovchatka, Chelyabinsk region. From 2011 until her maternity leave, she worked as an inspector in a correctional colony in the Chelyabinsk region.
“While on vacation, I thought about self-development and a possible change of profession. To implement my plan, I turned to the Employment Center of the Agapovsky District. The inspector suggested that I be trained in a new profession. In the spring of 2016, I started training in the specialty "hairdresser",- shared Lilia Nagashbaevna.
The training took about 4 months, took place in training center Business and Health, Magnitogorsk. The students were provided with everything necessary for practical exercises materials (shampoo, paints, scissors). Clients came to practical classes ready to trust the students.
“After training, friends, neighbors who knew me began to contact me with the wishes to change their image, do their hair for an event,- says the newly minted hairdresser. - I am now back from maternity leave and continue to work. But after I retire, I plan to open my own hairdresser.”
But that's not all!
Citizens who applied to the employment service and were recognized as unemployed can receive public services:
- on vocational training (to get a profession necessary for starting a business and in demand on the labor market);
– for self-employment (get free advice and financial assistance from the state for paperwork to start a business).
Also in the Chelyabinsk region there is a new subprogram until 2020 to provide subsidies to people with disabilities. If a disabled person decides to start his own business, he will be provided with a subsidy in the amount of 67,620 rubles. This is the maximum unemployment benefit for the year. The subsidy compensates for the costs of: acquisition of fixed assets, rent of an office or production facility, purchase of licensed software, etc.
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Since the program provides compensation, the disabled person must already have start-up capital in order to open their own business. This year, a subsidy for compensation will be allocated to 10 disabled people. To do this, a disabled person must apply to the employment service at the place of his residence, register, be recognized as unemployed, register his own business. Or there may be another situation: the disabled person was already registered as unemployed, he opened his own business. In both cases, compensation must be applied for within 3 months from the date of deregistration at the employment service.
To clarify, the subprogram operates throughout the region and is not tied to any cities or towns. An application for participation is submitted to the employment service at the place of residence.
Golovacheva Anna Vladimirovna applied to the Agapovsky District Employment Service for the sixth time in May 2016. She is 39 years old and has a 3rd disability group.
“For health reasons, I had to quit my job. There was a state of despair, but I immediately turned to the Agapovsky District Employment Center,– shared Anna Vladimirovna. - After a conversation with a career guidance specialist, I again believed in my own strength and decided to open my own business in the profession that I already had, “fashion designer”. In the employment center, I used the self-employment service and in February 2017 I opened my own atelier. Now everything works out for me: I have my own customers, my products are in demand. I can safely say that I live a full life!”
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For any category of people who are looking for a job, the doors to the employment center are open. In addition to state social payments, the temporarily unemployed have the opportunity to take training, retraining and advanced training courses.
Legal basis
According to Article 37 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, any citizen has the right to protection from unemployment. Article 38 allows the unemployed to count on social benefits, provided that the citizen is registered at the employment center and considered officially unemployed.
To be awarded such a status, a Russian must show a desire to find an area of employment and agree to a suitable job offered by the Employment Center (hereinafter referred to as EPC).
An offer that corresponds to the age, state of health, work experience and qualifications of the applicant is considered suitable.
Unsuitable will be a vacancy associated with a change of residence without the consent of a citizen, with a salary below the average salary of a person received over the past 3 months at his last place of work.
The condition does not apply to applicants whose earnings before dismissal were higher than the average monthly salary of a working person in the region.
Functions of the labor exchange
The main task of the exchange is to provide work for maximum number applicants.
To do this, the staff of the CZN must:
- analyze and predict supply and demand for the working part of the population;
- accounting for the number of vacancies and demand for them;
- consulting people about their capabilities and requirements of the company;
- assistance not only in finding a job, but also in finding employees for the organization;
- The CZN is obliged, if necessary, to organize training courses for a citizen in special training centers, and the exchange will also help with the choice of their specialization;
- pay unemployment benefits at the time of finding a suitable job;
- EPC must also prepare job offers for foreign citizens
You need to know that not everyone can get the status of unemployed. There are 2 conditions: working age and the ability to perform a particular job.
Who can get through
As of 2019, the following categories of citizens have the opportunity to take free courses at the Employment Center:
- disabled people;
- parents or adoptive parents raising disabled minors;
- a person who is looking for a job and has been registered with the stock exchange for more than 6 months;
- student of any educational institution;
- a retired soldier;
- a military man who served on conscription, but was fired within 3 years;
- a person with no qualifications.
preferential right
There are categories of people who can qualify for preferential status when applying for unemployment benefits. For example, orphans. If the applicant confirms his preferential status, he will be assigned unemployment benefits in a special amount.
Upon reaching the age of 23, if a suitable job has not yet been found, the person loses his preferential status, from that moment he will receive benefits on the same terms as the rest.
Another privileged category are the disabled. But only a disabled person of the 3rd group can apply for special conditions. To do this, he needs to confirm his illness officially and apply to the exchange with the necessary documents. There he will be assigned an increased allowance and will be helped with the selection of suitable vacancies.
What courses are offered
In addition, the employment center offers training in almost any specialty. Among them are about 100 options for working specialists and about 80 business specializations.
Below are the most common specialties in which the applicant will be able to receive free training:
- the hairdresser;
- security activities;
- accountant;
- elevator service;
- tourism manager;
- nursing;
- cook;
- programmer;
- category B and C driver, as well as a tram and trolleybus driver;
- tailor;
- warehouse and transport logistics.
Passed courses give a guarantee for successful employment, a person is issued a certificate of qualification.
For mums on maternity leave
The labor exchange has created a special program, according to which a mother who is on maternity leave for a child under 3 years old and officially employed can receive additional education, take retraining courses, or acquire other skills.
Training, depending on the chosen specialization, can take place at any university or other educational institution, which cooperates with the CZN.
Even if the applicant is offered to study in a neighboring city, there is no need to worry, all payments for travel and accommodation will be covered by the exchange. Training can take place in person, in absentia, in the evening and even remotely.
For registration, you must submit an application, passport, birth certificate and a document confirming your employment and parental leave to the employment center.
Below is a list of courses for which maternity leave is possible:
- accountant;
- 1C specialist;
- computer coder;
- Web Designer;
- programmer;
- personnel management.
A complete list of professions can be clarified by contacting the CZN at the place of residence.
How to enroll
After registration, a citizen needs to consider a job that will be periodically offered and, within three days, appear for an interview at the specified organization.
If during the year the applicant cannot choose a suitable job, he will have to accept any vacancy that does not require any skills.
Note that if a person refuses several offered vacancies, the payment of benefits will stop. As well as if you do not visit the EC at the set time.
What documents are needed
List of required papers:
Learning Features
The term of study is set from 1 to 6 months, depending on the chosen specialty. Groups of volunteers are recruited and sent to an educational institution. During the training, you need to visit them regularly, in case the student does not come to class without good reason, he will be excluded from the group.
How is the study allowance paid?
If you were sent to take courses from the Employment Center, then at the time of training you are required to receive a scholarship equal to the amount of your unemployment benefit.
When you complete the courses, you will need to pass an exam, after successfully passing it, you will be assigned the status of a specialist in the chosen field. Payments will be accrued to you until the end of training and subsequent employment.
There are a number of reasons why your allowance or scholarship will stop:
- The student arbitrarily refused to study.
- deduction.
- period of illness.
- Maternity leave.
Advantages and disadvantages
The training provided by the exchange has a number of advantages:
- the opportunity to learn the necessary profession;
- do it not only for free, but also receiving benefits;
- providing new skills;
- the ability to completely change the scope of activity;
- high probability of subsequent employment;
- obtaining a certificate of training after its completion;
- on the stock exchange special program for the disabled and those with a criminal record
But there is also back side question. First, exchange employees are rarely interested in what you want to learn at the moment. You will be offered the currently available seats. And if this does not suit you, you will have to wait for recruitment for a profession that is convenient for you.
The second point is not the fact that you will wait for it - if the specialty is narrow, it is likely that the exchange will not provide you with the opportunity to study it.
If you refuse the job offered several times, you may be deregistered, in which case you will not be able to complete the training at all. If a suitable vacancy is offered, it is likely that it will not suit the applicant with the salary.
Among other things, the employment center may offer to implement a citizen's business idea. For implementation, it is necessary to provide an accurate plan for the development of the future business. This is a fundamental factor, after reviewing the plan, the commission will determine whether the idea has the possibility of implementation in your city, and calculate the approximate income.
And if the idea is relevant, they will allocate a grant for development, which you will not need to return. There is also a chance to get an additional preferential loan if the business idea is approved.
Please note that the employment center provides only a part of the required amount for the first investment in development.
The rest you need to earn yourself. You can only receive a grant once. After approval, it is necessary to conclude an agreement on the provision of payment.
Becoming a mother, it is easy to get lost in caring for a child and fall behind colleagues who at this time continue to improve in the profession. So that returning to work does not seem painful, you can use maternity leave to get additional education or "reboot" your own career.
For career and depression
Family psychologist and Gestalt therapist Anna Devyatka believes that education received on maternity leave is not only an auxiliary boost for a career, but also a remedy for depression.
“The problem of maternity leave is information hunger, which replaces the working rhythm and busy schedule. At first, the mother takes care of the child almost around the clock, but over time, the son or daughter grows up, and more and more time is released. At the same time, the woman is busy with “useful” things - washing, ironing, cleaning the apartment, and life is slowly turning into a routine. Depression and reflection creep in: did she really want such a life and could she devote at least part of her time to herself, to do what she likes? The idea to engage in self-development, advanced training and the development of professional skills on maternity leave is very successful, ”says Anna Devyatka.
During parental leave, a woman has the opportunity to think about her career: what skills can be improved, whether it is worth changing her profession. The answers to these questions will help you understand what exactly is worth studying.
New profession for free
For help in career guidance, you can contact the employment center of your city. They will also help those who decide to improve their skills or change their specialty. Contrary to popular belief, not only the unemployed are accepted there. Special work is carried out with women who are on parental leave: they are offered to take refresher courses free of charge or change their profession through a retraining program. The list of specialties that can be taught is extensive and differs in different employment centers. For example, you can learn the profession of an accountant, tailor, manicurist, hairdresser, cook, estimator, translator or designer.
Hope is the mother of two sons. While on parental leave for the second time, she completed courses in the direction of the employment center as a hairdresser-universal. The training took 4 months.
“Before maternity leave, I worked as a cashier. Right now I'm still at home, but I hope to change my direction after I leave my vacation. It was not difficult to get into the group: I called the employment service and asked if there were places. Collected Required documents, concluded an agreement with the employment service that I am undergoing training, and they pay for it. And a week later, classes began. There was only one surprise - I had to buy tools for a total of about 10,000 rubles, ”says Nadezhda.
To get a referral for training, you should contact the employment center at the place of registration. You can get an education in any educational institution that cooperates with the ETC. List of specific courses and curricula can be found in the employment center itself or on its website. If a suitable place of study is found only in the neighboring locality, pay the road will also help.
Having decided, you need to collect documents:
Application (a sample can be taken at the employment center),
Passport or equivalent document,
Birth certificate of the child or children,
A document related to work and confirming that you are on parental leave (a work book or a copy of it certified at work, and a certificate stating that the mother is really on maternity leave).
After checking the documents, the schedule and duration of classes are determined, and an agreement is concluded on vocational training between the employment center, educational institution and a participant in the program. The duration of such courses is no more than 6 months, you can study in a group or individually, during the day or in the evenings. You can complete the training once during the parental leave (for three years).
Nadezhda notes that the hairdressing courses were organized in such a way that mothers had time to master not only theory, but also practice.
“Training took place 4 days a week for 4-5 hours a day. There were two shifts: from 9 am to 1 pm or from 2 pm to 6 pm. So everyone has chosen a convenient schedule for themselves. The first 2–3 weeks was only theory, then practical classes began. Clients are people who are ready to entrust their hair to students, for which many thanks to them! For them, everything was free, except for the spent materials (shampoos, dyes, care products). By the way, there were a lot of people who wanted to get a free order on their heads. During the work we were supervised by the master. At the end of the training, they passed an exam in theory and practice. It was interesting, I didn't want to leave. Will I recommend to my friends? Of course!"
The disadvantages of this type of training are that it is impossible to choose a specific specialty on your own - the options are selected at the employment center, albeit focusing on the needs and qualifications of the woman, as well as the demand for the profession in the labor market. The list of courses may not include the specialty of interest, or it turns out that the enrollment for it is closed, and the next one will not be soon. And most importantly, such training is impossible if there is absolutely no one to leave the child with.
Without leaving home
What if there is no one to entrust the care of the baby during classes? The obvious solution in this case is online courses, of which there are many on the network.
One of the most famous sites offering to master the programs of the famous universities of the world without leaving home - Coursera. You can study here for free. If you absolutely need to get a certificate of completion of the course, you will have to pay, but even in this case it is possible to ask the portal for "financial assistance" by filling out the application form on the website. Many courses are held in English language and will suit those who already own it well.
Russian brother of a popular online university - Universarium. Studying in the courses is free, but even here you will have to pay for a certificate, a webinar or a personal consultation with a teacher.
edX is a non-profit project of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Again, suitable for English speakers. Obtaining a personal certificate requires donations (the student decides how much he is ready to give), however, you can choose the option of free education and obtaining a certificate without indicating the name of the owner with the possibility of checking his data on the site. Here they offer great amount courses and programs in a variety of areas.
A variety of courses in Russian or with Russian subtitles are offered by Postnauka, Arzamas, Netology, Lectorium, TED. The list of free services does not include practical classes and certificates, but you can turn on the video recording of the lecture and watch even with a child in your arms.
The main disadvantage of online courses is the temptation to forever postpone their development until later. To prevent this from happening, it is important to remember the goal.
“A clearly understood motive and understanding of the preferences that education will give help to bring education to the end. For example, studying an online course in accounting, a woman understands that she is investing time, effort, money, and for her efforts she will eventually receive a certificate of completed training and an advantage in her resume. Understanding the goal helps you plan your schedule and allocate time for learning. It is good at first to choose different times for classes and test when it is more convenient and easier to perceive information. A clear goal also helps to prioritize and get involved in learning more easily, even at home. Think about what tasks can wait - like endless ironing and cleaning - and do something that is an investment in your future and the future of your child. Education affects the earnings and the general standard of living of the whole family, and that is why it is the best investment in yourself,” says Anna Devyatka.
Women's education is given special attention not only by government agencies. For those who are ready to invest in themselves, there are paid programs that offer women to study in conditions that are comfortable for them - professional courses for girls. The subjects of such courses are themselves gender-neutral - for example, screenwriting or coding. Interface developer Vasilika Klimova became a teacher of coding for girls after noticing that most of her colleagues are men.
“Two years ago I started teaching web basics courses. The organizers noticed that more girls studied with me than with other teachers - there were almost 50 to 50 in one stream. And we decided to hold a special course for girls, at the same time adopting the experience of other countries where courses and meetups for girls have long been common. There is such a stereotype: technical professions are more for guys. To make girls feel more comfortable in learning completely new disciplines, we create our own lamp atmosphere. Agree that it can be annoying for some to spend 5 years of study at the university among the same guys. But now in Russia it is almost like that. In the specialty where I studied, there were 4 girls for 50 boys. A unique approach in a group for girls is not needed. The main thing that needs to be conveyed is that if you want, you will achieve everything. It doesn’t matter in what area,” says Vasilika Klimova.
Teachers and students are sure that women are really more comfortable acquiring new knowledge in the company of each other. The psychologist also confirms this.
“In my opinion, there are no strong differences between male and female education,” comments Anna Devyatka. - The words “for girls” are rather a marketing ploy that gives additional psychological support to women, the confidence that even with such difficult things like coding, they can do it, because the course is for them. There are also special courses designed for women on maternity leave, balanced in terms of workload and designed so that a young mother will be able to manage both the child and advanced training.”
In addition to the fact that women will have to pay for courses, they have another potentially weakness: having studied in a comfortable company of other girls, you still have to work in real world and in particular with men.
Whatever format of education a woman chooses, it is important to take into account her own capabilities: age and health, the needs of the child, the availability of outside help, and also understand why she should invest her time and energy in education, and how it will be useful in the future. Then science will definitely be for the future.