We can learn so much from other peoples’ career stories. Career-Defining Moments is a place for career storytelling and real life learning. It’s a place to share the stories that make us human at work and the things that changed us forever (even if we did not know it at the time). In this podcast Emmy Petersson, a Career and Transition Coach, invite everyday inspiring people to tell the story of their career-defining moments across a range of industries, countries and backgrounds.
Episode 8: International Career Building with Wendy O'Mara
Curious to explore a career in another country, but not sure how to? Get ready for this great chat with Wendy O’Mara about her work in HR, relocation and recruitment plus hear about her own relocation experience.
In this wonderful and honest chat, we share lots of examples from our own international moves, and some insider tips you want to make sure to consider for your own overseas career adventure.
Some of the things we cover:
• How to run a successful business with your husband or wife
• International recruitment tips for both candidates and employers
• How to create a better relocation and onboarding experience for internationals
• The power of a single touchpoint when moving through a complex work or recruitment process
• How homesickness can really change your international career experience
• The challenges and opportunities that open up when you follow a partner overseas
• The different drivers that can fuel a big career move
• How the practical parts of an international career often stop people from following their dreams
• How to assess the pros and cons of an international work opportunity
• Timing and its importance in any career move
• Career matching and building a meaningful talent pipeline for your business
Wendy’s top career tips
1. Choose your partners wisely
2. Don’t be naïve – it will cost money, time and energy to make great things happen!
3. Dare to make the decision or the jump, it might just work out!
Resources:
• Feeling stuck on what’s next in your career? Start by downloading the free career checklist via https://www.thebridgecoaching.com.au or book a free chat with Emmy.
• Connect with Wendy via LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendyomara/ or check out their websites https://engineeredmoves.com/ and https://www.contourpersonnel.com.au/
15 Aug 2023
Episode 7: Values & Professional Problem Solving with Darren Allen
I loved this chat with Darren Allen about all things career! He loved drawing and creativity and wanted to be an architect or an engineer as a child. His path changed when he got some loving, but frank feedback during his student years, and he swapped engineering for project management and professional problem solving.
Since then, he’s spent most of his career in the community and events space. In this chat we unpack how you can be more honest, have more fun and enjoy the work you do to be more productive.
Some of the things we cover:
• Finding the line between the things we love and the things we monetise or work with.
• Unpacking your unique way of problem solving.
• The balance between following the rules and forging ahead
• Reframe the bigger picture problem you are part of solving in your work
• The risk of mission fatigue, especially in the not-for-profit space
• Building your work on principles and values, rather than rules
• How to shape decision making filters to work better.
• Creating decision making frameworks that helps you work better and more efficiently
• Integrity and how to figure out if a business is doing it well
• Learning to regulate your pace and well-being to keep delivering great work and build a sustainable career
• The challenges with bringing your whole self to work
• Crying or and dealing with grief and difficult emotions in a workplace
• How to lead with heart and still deliver great results
• The gift in giving and receiving mentoring for people in any industry
Darren’s top career tips
- Dare to reinvent yourself when you make a career change
- Fail quickly. Make mistakes, but only maker them once.
- Be prepared to be surprised. You will be wrong sometimes.
Resources:
• Feeling stuck on what’s next in your career? Start by downloading the free career checklist via https://www.thebridgecoaching.com.au or book a free chat with Emmy.
• Connect with Darren on Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darren-allen-453b4333/
1 Aug 2023
Episode 6: Positivity and The Invincible Syndrome with Porschia Parker-Griffin
In this wonderful conversation with Porschia Parker-Griffin we unpack the power of healthy positivity in career building and share lots of practical action steps you can take to really transform your career options.
She also shares how the invincible syndrome can work against you in career building. This syndrome assumes that we can do pretty much everything on our own and that our efforts will also be successful which can lead to a dangerous form of overconfidence.
Some of the things we cover:
• The invincible syndrome and how it shows up in someone’s life
• The career habits and tips that are even more important than your resume
• The power of healthy positivity and how it’s different from toxic positivity
• Perfectionism and how it helps
• Beliefs around hard work, high achievers and the expected reward
• The balance of acquiring knowledge and taking action
• How to review and overhaul your CV and Linked In
• How to audit your skills and blind spots to monitor your energy
• Take stock of what resources you have available to make this happen
• Decoupling input from expected (immediate) outcome
• Learning to listen to the feedback from self and others to build on
• How to find things that make you smile to fuel your work through healthy positivity and tapping into gratitude in a very practical way
• What is a career support system and how do you build one?
• The danger of unhelpful beliefs such as ‘If I just get in the room, I’ll seal the deal’ or ‘I did so well in this other area, those skills will make me successful in my new role or business’.
Resources:
• Feeling stuck on what’s next in your career? Start by downloading the free career checklist via https://www.thebridgecoaching.com.au or book a free chat with Emmy.
• Get in touch with Porschia and listen into her podcast:
Website: https://www.fly-highcoaching.com Career 1010 Podcast: https://www.fly-highcoaching.com/career-101-podcast/
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