* Build your online presence.* Cultivate existing relationships.* Be clear on what you want from your career.* Stand out from the crowd online.* Find a mentor or coach.* Start up other projects.* Be open to short term work.* POSSIBLY invest in more education.

0:00Hello, everyone, welcome back to my podcast. I am Heather

0:04Monthie,

0:04your host for this podcast, I want to thank you for returning to listen to this podcast. It's been a hot minute since I've had an episode. And you know, I think that, like anyone COVID really helped to shift a lot of people's priorities, mine as well. And so what happened was the podcast just kind of got pushed down on the list of my priorities. Over the last almost year, I have had some career changes. And a lot of other things have just changed since COVID. So I hope you understand. And I'm glad that you're back, I'm glad to be back here, talking about STEM education, STEM careers, all those different things. In the past, the podcast was about the tn stem where we were talking specifically about technology education, we talked a lot about, you know, different aspects of technology. What I would like to do now going forward is really branch out more into all of STEM. So science, technology, engineering, math, talk about careers, workforce development, skills that are needed leadership, and even talking more about the skilled trades as well. I think that these are the careers of the future. And I want to share my expertise, my experience, I've been working in that industry for many, many, many years. And just with some changes in my life, I am able to share a little bit more about what's required to be successful in these particular fields. So you'll see going forward, we'll talk not just specifically about technology, we're going to really focus on the other areas of STEM, and then go into more of the skilled trades as well. Like I said, I want to talk about the stuff that's of the future. And I think that that's where things are going. So I want to be able to share that with you. So whether you you might be a teacher, you might be a principal, you might be a parent, you might be a person who works in one of these fields, you might be a person considering transitioning to a career in one of these fields, you might be a leader in one of these fields, who is interested in mentoring and helping others propel their careers. And maybe you already work in this field, and you want to become a more of a leader in this field. So this podcast is for you. So what I wanted to do today is really just get back into the swing of things for the podcast, and talk a little bit about what steps that you can take to either make a career transition, or to start your career amid a pandemic, some of the tasks that you might do are going to be the same. But you might approach them a little bit differently. And I wanted to go over I have eight different tips, tactical things that you can do to just really propel your career during a pandemic, whether you work in technology, you work in cybersecurity, you work in engineering, whatever it may be some of these things I have talked about before in the podcast. So some of this might be duplicate of what you've already heard. But it's always good to hear it again, right, especially if you're new. And this is the first episode that you're listening to. Number one is to build your online presence, I can't stress this enough is to you need to put things out into the web sphere that makes you searchable online. I always say that if you're not managing your online presence, Google is doing it for you. So if you don't have a blog, if you don't have a LinkedIn account, Google's really just deciding what pops up first when somebody Google's your name. So there could be other information out there news articles,