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In the final episode of the Career Lab podcast series, we talk to Elizabeth Vale, managing director at Morgan Stanley to get her advice on building and sustaining a career. We also hear from Karen Le Vert about launching her own business and a few current and recent MBA students, who describe the route they took to business school and beyond.
Elizabeth Vale: I would ask questions like who has been successful in this role? What are models which have been a good fit here? What training, what gifts combined to make a person successful in this role?
Elissa Sangster: Hello and welcome to episode three of the Career Lab podcast. That was Elizabeth Vale, Managing Director at Morgan Stanley. We asked Elizabeth what questions she would advise asking of a perspective employer. After all, now is the season when many college seniors are about to graduate and commit to their first job.
Elizabeth: I would ask also about a career path. I think one frustration with many jobs I’ve been in has been you really need to create your own career path. Is there a logical progression? Is there the ability to move around? Very often people get stuck and I think you want to make sure that the firm generally endorses multiple experiences. So I think that’s not a bad question at all to ask and perfectly appropriate.
Host: This episode, we ask some of our Career Lab speakers for their top tips for women who are just about to enter the job market. They all had one refrain in common: you don’t have to figure it all out ahead of time. But they also had some more tactical advice based on their own early career experiences.
Karen LeVert: I’m Karen LeVert. I’m the CEO of Southeast TechInventures, and I co-founded the company about three and a half years ago. And the company works with inventors that are in the university. They feel they have an idea with commercial potential, but not necessarily the business expertise to get it into the marketplace.
Elissa: We asked Karen for her advice for women who know they want to go the entrepreneurial route.
Karen: One of the main things in preparation is knowing thyself. When you go into business on your own, you start by yourself a lot of times. Sometimes you have one or two other people around you, but you have to learn where your strengths are, and I’ll call them growth edges, to where you need to compliment yourself. Secondly, it’s always better to get into something where you have some background about the market that you’re going to be in. Businesses have high failure rates for money, for not approaching the market correctly, not really understanding the customer, so you can give yourself a better chance of success if you put some of those things in your favor.
Elissa: Karen is one of our many speakers who decided at some point in her career that an MBA would give her the edge she needed to accomplish her goals.
Karen: I wasn’t sure actually right when I graduated that I would get an MBA. I started eight years after I was out of school. I don’t think that you necessarily have to have an MBA to be successful in business, but I learned a lot about business plans and the financial side of the business so at least you could build forecasts and see if you’
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In the final episode of the Career Lab podcast series, we talk to Elizabeth Vale, managing director at Morgan Stanley to get her advice on building and sustaining a career. We also hear from Karen Le Vert about launching her own business and a few current and recent MBA students, who describe the route they took to business school and beyond.
Elizabeth Vale: I would ask questions like who has been successful in this role? What are models which have been a good fit here? What training, what gifts combined to make a person successful in this role?
Elissa Sangster: Hello and welcome to episode three of the Career Lab podcast. That was Elizabeth Vale, Managing Director at Morgan Stanley. We asked Elizabeth what questions she would advise asking of a perspective employer. After all, now is the season when many college seniors are about to graduate and commit to their first job.
Elizabeth: I would ask also about a career path. I think one frustration with many jobs I’ve been in has been you really need to create your own career path. Is there a logical progression? Is there the ability to move around? Very often people get stuck and I think you want to make sure that the firm generally endorses multiple experiences. So I think that’s not a bad question at all to ask and perfectly appropriate.
Host: This episode, we ask some of our Career Lab speakers for their top tips for women who are just about to enter the job market. They all had one refrain in common: you don’t have to figure it all out ahead of time. But they also had some more tactical advice based on their own early career experiences.
Karen LeVert: I’m Karen LeVert. I’m the CEO of Southeast TechInventures, and I co-founded the company about three and a half years ago. And the company works with inventors that are in the university. They feel they have an idea with commercial potential, but not necessarily the business expertise to get it into the marketplace.
Elissa: We asked Karen for her advice for women who know they want to go the entrepreneurial route.
Karen: One of the main things in preparation is knowing thyself. When you go into business on your own, you start by yourself a lot of times. Sometimes you have one or two other people around you, but you have to learn where your strengths are, and I’ll call them growth edges, to where you need to compliment yourself. Secondly, it’s always better to get into something where you have some background about the market that you’re going to be in. Businesses have high failure rates for money, for not approaching the market correctly, not really understanding the customer, so you can give yourself a better chance of success if you put some of those things in your favor.
Elissa: Karen is one of our many speakers who decided at some point in her career that an MBA would give her the edge she needed to accomplish her goals.
Karen: I wasn’t sure actually right when I graduated that I would get an MBA. I started eight years after I was out of school. I don’t think that you necessarily have to have an MBA to be successful in business, but I learned a lot about business plans and the financial side of the business so at least you could build forecasts and see if you’