This week, we have a special bonus episode for you. Kelly recently had the honor of teaming up with Harvard university's career advisor and best-selling author of The Unspoken Rules; Secrets to Starting Your Career off Right Gorick Ng, Glassdoor’s Learning and Development Senior Manager, Karla Talley, and Coursera’s product designer, Kim Alban for a Fishbowl live event titled Do I Really Need Another Degree? 

During the live session, we discussed, whether it's worth the money to take advantage of upskilling opportunities and answered questions from an audience of over 1000 participants, so we are excited to share that recorded session with you here. 

Big Takeaways: 

1. We often have a lot of skills that we've learned through informal education and informal work experience. It doesn't matter if it comes from life experience, bring it into work, talk about it, and use that to your advantage at work as well. 
2. Find people who have pursued a certain career path that you'd like to pursue. Contact them and see if that graduate degree actually got them closer to where they are, or if they feel like they could have gotten there without that detour. 
3. You just need to be in different rooms to help you further. So, it really important to look at growth and development in all facets, to be able to get you where you want to be. 

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