HIGHER! Career Podcast

About HIGHER! Career Podcast

Welcome to the HIGHER! Career Podcast everyone. A show full of wicked stories from the job market and brilliant guest experts showing us how to succeed in it. Because we've all been there haven't we? It's time to get unstuck and make our dream careers happen. Let's go get it! -- With Nikki Symmons and Tom Zamzow This show is all about exploring ways to navigate one's career with ease and how the seemingly secret language of the job market is not one we have to each learn by ourselves through painstaking experience. Whether you are concerned about recruitment and finding a job, interviewing like a champion or getting that promotion in your current job, we are sure that we have an episode or two in our collection that can help you out. Every episode is driven by industry experts and business leaders from a wide range of fields. Entrepreneurship, corporate and the private sector, marketing and creative agencies, the World Wide Fund For Nature, media, you name it. Not only do you get to know these industries better in case you want to start your career in them, or do a career transition/change towards them. You also get to learn from these experts how they have navigated their own careers and became successful. Our show is less about philosophy than it is about real-world, practical ways in which you can have that dream career for yourself. There are no one-size fits all solutions, we don't believe in the kind of platitudes you will find on social media. Start your own unique engine, find your power and values and enable them to bring them to work with you and forge the dream career for yourself. This means overcoming the 'my manager hates me' trap. This means being brave, vocal and present, even if you don't feel like or your energy profile is rather introverted than extroverted. This means learning how to say no in your job. This means leading teams and realising that you will only ever be as good as the people you manage and develop. This means gaining the presentation skills you need. This means learning when to leave a job, and how to leave a job. And then: how to either get a new job or start your own business. This means mastering social media and setting up your LinkedIn profile in a way that serves your entire career. Nikki Symmons and Tom Zamzow created this show with two goals in mind. On the surface level, they have come to realise that all of us go through the same tough school of language learning. The language they speak of is the language of the job market and career development. It's a tough school, and it takes years to figure out how to be fluent in it. They endeavour to shorten this time period for you out there, make it easier for you to have a job, career or calling that you like and love. Which leads us to the second goal: Nikki and Tom want you to step up as leaders, and they want you to do it now. You see, they believe in careers as part of life, not just a 9-5 that you have to do. They believe in careers that can have a positive impact on the world. They believe in everyone finding their values, what they believe in, feel passionate about, and are willing to fight for. More than ever before, ordinary folk like us have the power to make real change happen. And not just in our personal lives. Showing up at work as a vocal advocate for one's values bears the potential to change companies from within. And in turn have companies invest their substantial resources to become better corporate citizens and make the world a better place. Nikki and Tom frequently talk about diversity, equity and inclusion, bring as many diverse guests as possible, and show their audience how careers in environmental sustainability can be incredibly exciting. Why listen to Nikki and Tom? Because they have changed their own careers more frequently than you can count to do just what they are advocating for on this show: do not feel trapped in your job. Our values, motivations and reasons to get up in the morning change over time. And retaining the flexibility of mind, heart, CV (how to write a CV), motivation letter and skillset to brave these exciting changes effortlessly. So have a listen, have a laugh, learn a little and let's go get it! Nikki and Tom

Publisher

Tom Zamzow

Category

business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 Dec 2020

Latest episode

13 Dec 2022

Latest episodes

1 of 49 episodes have a transcript.

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   13 Dec 2022

   Ep 48 - "How to Become a Rockstar with Neuroplasticity" with Veronique Bogliolo

   Neuroplasticity maketh the rockstar. With today's guest, my friend and overall fabulous person Veronique Bogliolo (https://www.linkedin.com/in/veronique-bogliolo-b019374/) of Bogliolo Coaching & Consulting (https://www.bogliolo.net), we talk about all the things. See, Veronique is a coach. A leadership coach. A teams coach. A coach that believes in science-based approaches and makes things happen for her clients. And delightfully, Veronique does not believe that coaching is something for the elite few. Her view, whether we talk about a professional coach you pay for or a cluster of trusted advisors, is that we all are only as good as the team that supports us. Have you assessed this for your own life recently? Who is on your team? Go ahead and do it, and recruit where needed. Because none of us are free of struggle, and all of us achieve more together. This episode focuses on this philosophy, but beyond that talks about a unifying feeling so many of us share across political, geographical and other divides: we are tired. We are exhausted. And there seems to be no end in sight. That is why I have asked Veronique to share the ingredients to her secret recipe that maketh the rockstar: her 7 steps to increased neuroplasticity. Leading to more energy. More satisfaction. More clarity. More peace. Let's go get it! HIGHER! Career Podcast -- with Nikki Symmons (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikki-symmons/) and Tom Zamzow (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomzamzow/) -- Welcome back to Higher! everyone. The podcast full of wicked stories from the job market and experts showing us how to succeed in it. Because we've all been there haven't we, it's time to get unstuck. It's time to make some change. It's time to lead. Let's go get it! Be sure to follow @gohigherpodcast (https://www.instagram.com/gohigherpodcast/) on Instagram for a peek behind the scenes and get to actually see our faces from time to time! We also have a delightful LinkedIn page where you can stay updated on the latest and greatest: HIGHER! Career Podcast. (https://www.linkedin.com/company/72767683/admin/) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

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   29 Nov 2022

   Ep 47 - "How to Research that New Dream Job - Part 2" with Steven Rothberg

   The saga continues! In our last episode, we had the stunning Steven Rothberg (https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenrothberg/), Chief Visionary Officer at College Recruiter (https://www.collegerecruiter.com/) on the show with us. Now, Steven and Tom got to chatting and (un)fortunately chatted to such an extent that a two part special was necessary. Part 1 (https://tomzamzow.com/higher-career-podcast/ep-46-how-to-research-that-new-dream-job-part-1-with-steven-rothberg) focused on the work that comes before the actual deed of setting your search filters to "dream job". Part 1 is about you, your values, skills, interests and desired compensation. Today, we will get into the nitty gritty of what it means to crusade across the width and depth of the all-powerful internet without getting lost. When faced with a situation in which a new job is required, the daunting task of starting to look for one can be so very energy consuming that we don't engage with it to the degree necessary. Steven is here to show us how to coax those dream jobs out from the infinite number of possible job search platforms and program them in a way that at least the search part of our job hunt runs on autopilot. This is Part 2 of our conversation with Steven, and must at this point again express our gratitude for having had him on the show with us. A few listeners actually reached out, expressing thanks and so it is only fair to pass those on to the true master of this topic: thanks Steven! Let's go get it! HIGHER! Career Podcast -- with Nikki Symmons (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikki-symmons/) and Tom Zamzow (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomzamzow/) -- Welcome back to Higher! everyone. The podcast full of wicked stories from the job market and experts showing us how to succeed in it. Because we've all been there haven't we, it's time to get unstuck. It's time to make some change. It's time to lead. Let's go get it! Be sure to follow @gohigherpodcast (https://www.instagram.com/gohigherpodcast/) on Instagram for a peek behind the scenes and get to actually see our faces from time to time! We also have a delightful LinkedIn page where you can stay updated on the latest and greatest: HIGHER! Career Podcast. (https://www.linkedin.com/company/72767683/admin/) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

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   15 Nov 2022

   Ep 46 - "How to Research that New Dream Job - Part 1" with Steven Rothberg

   Research? That sounds dull... We say: not so fast gentlewomen and gentlemen (and everybody in between), not so fast. Needing a new job is a daunting prospect. Whether you find yourself made redundant at your current employer, are an independent that needs a break from the entrepreneurial hustle, or simply can no longer stand your current one and it is time.to.go. With few and lucky exceptions, almost all of us have found ourselves at this junction in life. And for those of you who have been there, you will remember that the situations necessitating a new job tend to be a drain on our energy. And job search is an exceptionally energy-demanding task. Needless to say: it can be a terrible chore. Which is why today on the HIGHER! Career Podcast, we invited the ever so delightful Steven Rothberg (https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenrothberg/), Chief Visionary Officer at College Recruiter (https://www.collegerecruiter.com). While Steven's business focuses on helping college students take their first steps in the professional world, his insights transcend the realm of entry-level positions. You see, Steven is a virtuoso in the world of job boards, think Monster, LinkedIn, Google, the list goes on. Have you ever found yourself staring blankly at the screen of the LinkedIn "Jobs" section, your mouse hovering over the "Search" field with your mind going blank, asking yourself "How do I even get started?". Steven is here to break it down for us and teach us how to wield the power of job boards to curate an automated drip feed of potential jobs that: Match your skills Match your interests Have a high potential of success should you decide to apply This is Part 1 of our conversation with Steven, which focuses our attention on practical ways in which we can identify the building blocks we need to program this high-potential drip feed of jobs across job boards: your interests, your skills and experience, your values and your compensation. Let's go get it! HIGHER! Career Podcast -- with Nikki Symmons (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikki-symmons/) and Tom Zamzow (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomzamzow/) -- Welcome back to Higher! everyone. The podcast full of wicked stories from the job market and experts showing us how to succeed in it. Because we've all been there haven't we, it's time to get unstuck. It's time to make some change. It's time to lead. Let's go get it! Be sure to follow @gohigherpodcast (https://www.instagram.com/gohigherpodcast/) on Instagram for a peek behind the scenes and get to actually see our faces from time to time! We also have a delightful LinkedIn page where you can stay updated on the latest and greatest: HIGHER! Career Podcast. (https://www.linkedin.com/company/72767683/admin/) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

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Ep 21 - June Special with the incomparable Susan McPherson

Published 29 Jun 2021 · Transcript excerpt

[…] What's this book about? It's finding the humanity back and connecting with others. It is about having meaningful conversations, reciprocity, being there in the good times and bad, showing up, but leading with how can I be of help as the underlying connection point to each and every one of us? […]

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