Smart Career Planning

Welcome to Smart Career Planning, episode 24.  I'm very excited about our guest today, Anthony Hogan.  Anthony is a personal friend of mine and we met at Toastmasters close to 7 years ago.  Not only his he a phenomenal speaker, he is a great listener and an incredible communications coach.  If you'd like to get a hold of Anthony, you can connect with him directly on LinkedIn and Facebook.

Happy 2017 and welcome to Smart Career Planning episode #23.  I hope everyone had a restful holiday.  In this quarter, I will explore the idea of personal cultivation and how to be the "force to reckon with."   For our first episode of the year.  I will be discussing job interview preparations.  For those of you who’ve decided to explore your career options and see what’s out there this year, this podcast is perfect for you.  If, after listening to this podcast, you would like to share with the listeners your personal preparation tips, please email them to me at helen@interviewrightconsulting.com

For my listeners in the United States, I hope everyone had a restful Thanksgiving.  This is going to be our last episode for the year, as I'm dedicating the rest of the year in planning for 2017 and also rolling out fresh content for my Youtube channel.  For more information about my Youtube channel, you can look up Youtube for Interview Right Consulting.   For our last episode, I’m going to talk about planning for 2107, and I’m going to organize my content by life stages.  In some sense, career planning is similar to financial planning.  Depending on where you are at in each life stage, your focus and your investment vehicles are going to be very different.  Enjoy!  And I'll see you again in few weeks!

Welcome to our 20th episode.  For our podcast today, I’m going to talk about lessons I'd learned about breaking the glass ceiling from a book signing event I attended several weeks ago.  

Welcome to our 19th episode.  Our guest speaker today is Dana Shaw-Arimoto.  I met Dana at a Women Leadership event sponsored by Intuit.  There were four other female speakers, all of them were senior level executives at their corporations.  They were all incredible women and phenomenal examples.  So, in order for any of them to stand out, you have to be unique, dynamic and more importantly, grounded.  And that’s what Dana was to me when she spoke.     Dana has spent the last several months forming her own consultancy called Phoenix5th, LLC.  Before that, she spent several years serving as President of TalentWave.  Before that, she was the Global VP of Tapfin, which is a subsidiary of Manpower Group.  I should let you know that we had some technical difficulties when we’re recording, so the quality of this podcast maybe a bit inconsistent.  Here you go, Dana Shaw-Arimoto

As I mentioned in my last episode, I am creating a 3-podcast series titled "How to break the glass ceiling."  For our 18th episode, and our first of the 3-podcast series, we have Gizelle Robinson sharing with us her journey to success.  Gizelle Robinson is an IT leader for one of the largest financial institutions in the world.   I also want to give a shout out to Disrupt 2.0.  Gizelle is the author of one of the chapters.  For more information and to purchase the book, please visit here.  

This is a replay of our episode on time management.  With us approaching Q4 and 2017, I think it's time for us to revisit some fundamentals of time management so we can have more time to think about what we want to do next year.   At the same time, I want to spend the next two months creating a 3-podcast series titled "How to break the glass ceiling."  Stay tune. And I will see you in two weeks.

Welcome to our 16th episode, we are going to talk about fears.  As many times as you’ve heard growing up that fears are bad, as an adult, we might have heard an equal number of times that being fearful is a good thing too, it means you’re still alive, and fear is meant to protect you.  How does fear manifest itself when it comes to career building?  And how can you view "fear" differently in order for you to use it as an engine for success?    

I interviewed Amanda back in episode #5.  I reached out to Amanda at that time because I'm really curious as to what other recruiters look for in a winning candidate.  When she told me that she also has a side practice where she creates content and coaches individuals and businesses as to how best use that content to tell their personal or corporate story, my ears perked up.  For those of you who've been following my podcast, I'm a strong believer in creating opportunities for yourself and going after your passion.  Amanda is a perfect example of that. For more information, please visit her website here.

Every other Friday, I host a Career Clinic addressing questions my audience has about career journey mapping and job interviewing.  We had a fantastic Career Clinic session several Fridays ago.  So, for our 14th episode, I thought we can go over my responses to some of those questions.  For those of you who are interested in signing up for my career clinic, go to http://www.interviewrightconsulting.com/services.  

I wrote an article last year titled “How to create demand for you?”  The premise of the article is: there are things you can do to create demand for yourself.  We all have talents and aspirations.  Instead of heads down and focusing just on the company you work for, look up and envision opportunities that are ahead of you.  For episode 13, I interviewed Olivia Hattersley, the inspiration for my article.  Enjoy!

You have heard me talk about "putting yourself out there" over and over again in my previous episode.  I am going to dedicate the entire 12th episode to discuss the benefits of putting yourself out there on a professional level.  Why do I care so much about that?  Listen to this episode to find out!

For our 11th episode, I am going to talk about career lessons I'd learned as a recruiter.  In the last decade, I have heard plenty of stories as to why someone is looking for a new job or why someone is laid off.  I have also sat in many interview debrief meetings discussing why the hiring team will move forward with someone and why the team passes on others.  I have condensed my experiences into four points for you today.  If you have any questions, please email me at helen@interviewrightconsulting.com 

For our podcast today, I interviewed a very creative job seeker who put together an incredible email and digital marketing campaign for himself. His name is Alex Payne. If you feel like you're stuck in a rut in your job search, or you are interested in an alternative way of getting noticed by companies, check out this episode!

Our guest for today's episode is Vivi Fenwick from Vivifenwick Consulting.  In addition to recruiting, Vivi also coaches small to medium size businesses on best hiring practices, from coaching hiring managers on coming up with interview questions to creating a recruitment process.  

For our 8th episode, I interviewed Dan Medlin, Talent Acquisition Manager at ARM, who will share with us the profile of a high-caliber candidate.  If you are preparing for an interview at a prestigious company, listen up.  Not only will Dan break down the kind of online profile he targets, but also the depth of homework a winning candidate should do.  

Alan Bailey has over a decade of recruitment experience. In our 7th episode, Alan will share with us tips to score well in a job interview. For more information on Alan, you can find him on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/alanrbailey.

In our 6th episode today, Clare Bautista, Talent Acquisition Manager at Tech Technology Solutions, a fast-growing technology consulting company based in San Francisco, California. Not only does Clare discuss with us what she looks for in a winning candidate, she also shares with us tips as we prepare for our next interview and job search.

For our 5th episode, we have our first guest speaker, Amanda Wowk, Founder of Amanda Wowk Creative.  Amanda has about a decade of recruitment experience across multiple business functions.  In this interview, Amanda shared with us what she typically looks for in a winning candidate and tips for job seekers.

This is the first of a 5-episode series titled "What are you looking for," in which I will be discussing what do I look for a winning candidate as a headhunter.  In my future series, I will interview recruiters with different search specialities and have them share what they look for as well.  If you have specific questions you'd like me to ask, please email them to me at helen@interviewrightconsulting.com.