Learn. Grow. Ascend.
Staying Focused
Becoming intimately familiar with your impact on the world will carry you through uncertainty.
Be Brave: Show Up
We all have moments when we’re stuck and afraid to either put ourselves out there and go for it or stay where we are
LinkedIn Roadmap
Here is a short roadmap to help you navigate getting your career documents such as your resume, online portfolio, and LinkedIn profile updated.
Online Job Applications
While these systems allow for internal recruiters or human resources executives to safely house, store and search candidate information they do yield a hands-off, less cozy application process for the job seeker.
Connecting with Your Connections
Many folks I speak with in a job search aren’t accessing their connections in the most effective way to really ensure they are maximizing their reach. There’s an easy trick for this!
Searches: The One Who Wins
Have the courage to reinvent yourself. It can feel daunting to embrace new technology or reinvent your personal brand.
Your Parachute Plan
Taking ownership of your destiny is a route to empowerment and unshackling yourself to an organization.
Set Time to Walk Your Path
At times our career paths are very well defined. They may be well defined by a clear rank and file or by the yearly goals you set with your manager. One step on the path clearly leads to another. But what happens when we feel stuck?
Be 35% Better
Leaving a job to start another gives you the chance to redefine yourself. Negotiating that pay bump isn’t just about adding to your take-home pay. Think about translating that bump into creating a more enhanced version of you.
Retaining Your Team
People are a company’s greatest resource. Not the product a business creates, the membership it drives, or the apps it produces. The people who keep the machine running are the most critical asset of an organization. People are your company’s walking reputation.
Job Search FOMO
Becoming intimately familiar with your impact on the world will carry you through uncertainty.
You Have the Courage
Next steps can be scary but they all start the same. One action at a time.
The Long, Long Search
When you find the right role you simply feel it and it’s infectious across both sides
The Power of YOU
Believing in the power of YOU can silence your interpretations and allow you to be open to the choices that lie ahead of you along your path.
Make Some Career Noise
Maintaining a robust, enriching social media footprint allows you to be a recognized commodity and leader in your professional community.
Going at it Alone: Navigating Freelancing
Believing in the power of YOU can silence your interpretations and allow you to be open to the choices that lie ahead of you along your path.
Stopgap
Being kind to yourself while taking control of the decision to choose the interlude along your path is important for your mental and physical well-being.
Starting to be Social
Maintaining a robust, enriching social media footprint allows you to be a recognized commodity and leader in your professional community.
Resolution: You’re Not Alone
In the deep winter night of our journey, we need to help one another remember to trust that we’re all, collectively, in a transition.
Sharon’s List: Top 5 Quiet (Enough) Places in The Loop
Working in the ‘burbs may afford you the luxury to retreat to your car cocoon–but if you work downtown it’s tricky to find a quiet place to chat.