The idea for ShareYourJob.com came about because we, as two professional working women, wanted to combine our time and responsibilities as mothers with meaningful jobs on a part-time basis.
Having spent 15+ years developing our careers before the birth of our children, we would have seriously considered a job share position with our existing employers. At the time, however, there was no facility to help us find a suitable job share partner.
So was born the idea of ShareYourJob.com. Essentially, we would like to give other workers – like us – the opportunity to look for a job share partner using the power of the internet.
Employers too can benefit enormously from job share arrangements. Research shows that they are able to attract and retain workers with a wider range of skills and higher rates of productivity when compared with full-time colleagues.
Job sharing is a simple idea that could make a massive difference to the ways in which we work, as well as giving thousands of people meaningful choices in achieving their work-life balance.
Directors
ShareYourJob.com was established in 2009 by Elizabeth Barnard and Astrid Clifford who are the company directors. Astrid and Elizabeth first became friends when they were 11 years old and attending The Ramsden School For Girls in Orpington, Kent. Since then they have developed their careers working full time in different areas before starting families in their early 40s.
Having graduated in Genetics, Elizabeth studied for a postgraduate diploma in Journalism Studies and then spent more than ten years working in health communications, both within the private sector with specialist agencies and the National Health Service. More recently she has honed her skills as a corporate communications manager within a large local authority.
After completing an undergraduate degree in Psychology and an MSc. in Economics at the London School of Economics, Astrid joined one the world’s leading financial services organisations. She has spent the past 24 years in various senior banking positions in Hong Kong, Vietnam, Taiwan, India, Dubai, Oman, Armenia, the USA and Jersey.
