About Mom Job Seeker

About Mom Job Seeker

April Stensgard founded Mom Job Seeker to provide job preparation training for moms looking for work, but on their own terms.  Stensgard understands the frustration and confusion that women can feel when attempting to navigate their way in the job market both during and after raising children.  Convinced that it doesn’t have to be that way, she launched Mom Job Seeker in Spring 2008 with the innovative CareerCamps to help moms find flexible work that supports their lifestyle.

April, a mom of two young girls and a wife of sixteen years, is just like you.  She struggles with the daily juggling act of getting kids off to school, running the household, finding time for her marriage and then, switching gears to be a productive ‘career mom’ while her kids are at school.

April uses the word ‘hyper-tasking’ to describe her life and that of other moms.  It is no longer called ‘multi-tasking’ because moms have to keep so many balls in the air at once!  There is a new generation of moms emerging who are ready to ramp up their careers…on their own terms…but feel unprepared to navigate their way back into the job market.

Over the past 10 years April has given motivational speeches as a member of the National Speakers Association®, and has certifications with: The Coaches Training Institute®, The Center for Presentation Mastery, a CISS Practioner and an expert in Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, a personality test.

To keep her sanity, April can be found hiking the hills behind her home in Highlands Ranch, meeting with other career-minded moms to ‘compare notes’ over a grande cup of caramel macchiato and has made a second career out of ‘doing lunch!’

As a means of giving back, April uses her passion to help moms by partnering with her native Kenyan friends to help bring hope and resources to widows in Kenya.  April has brought several people to Kenya to give their time, talents, support and long-term friendship in order to help the widows start small businesses so they can realize their dreams of becoming self-sufficient.  In addition, Apil has also worked with the widow’s children and other orphans to help provide resources for education.  To learn more about the widows visit our website and click on Community Development: www.loveforkenya.com. To learn more about children’s eduction visit www.globaleducationfund.org.