Career Cohort

What a great conversation with author and speaker Kelli Thompson on how we can gain more confidence—whether we need it to stand out in meetings or to better connect with our audience as a presenter.

Kelli Thompson is a women’s leadership coach and speaker who helps women advance to the rooms where decisions are made. 

She has coached and trained hundreds of women to trust themselves, lead with more confidence, and create a career they love. She is the founder of the Clarity & Confidence Women's Leadership Program, and a Stevie Award winner for Women in Business—Coach of the Year. 

Kelli holds an MBA, has served as an adjunct management professor, and has more than ten years of senior leadership experience in financial services and technology organizations. Her thought leadership has been featured in Forbes, MarketWatch, Parents Magazine, HuffPost, and Working Mother. Kelli is from Omaha, Nebraska, and her favorite roles are wife to Jason and mom to Hailey.

She is the author of Closing The Confidence Gap: Boost Your Peace, Your Potential & Your Paycheck, releasing fall 2022.

Learn more and connect with Kelli:

Website: Kelliraethompson.com 

Book: closingtheconfidencegap.com/book  

Instagram: @kelliraethompson 

Linkedin: in/kelliraethompson

If you struggle getting started because you're waiting for inspiration, try reversing your logic.

The #1 piece of advice for writers is to get our butts in the chair and start writing. That's the only way we're going to get inspired. 

We get inspired by doing.

This applies to the project of job search, as well.

Whether the task is to research companies, make appointments, or search job postings...it still applies: get your butt in the chair. Believe me--I know how hard it is to get going, so I'm sharing what's worked for me.

I have this committed to memory: Start writing now matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.--Louis L'Amour

In the last episode, I talked about the 5 elements of a successful job search project. In this episode, I'm focusing on the importance of getting the start date on your calendar and following that with a weekly cadence.

Tips:

How many times have we been advised to manage our job search like a full-time job. If you consider that, though, it can be overwhelming. Think about it: 40+ hours added to the 40+ hours you're already committing to your "day" job. 

I recommend conducting your job search as a project, instead.

Listen to my 5-step plan to help you launch your job search NOW.

Onward!

In this episode I chat with Sonja Price, who is a Top Career Strategist, Salary Advisor, and Leadership Coach.  

Her mission is to support professionals to have greater meaning, better work-life balance, and significantly higher pay.  

She’s the distinguished author of 2 books: 

The Pivot Point System: 5 Keys to Transform Your Career, Health, and Wealth 

The Infinite Leader: How to Increase Your Influence and Expand Your Impact 

Sonja has worked directly with Tony Robbins, trained with Al Gore to become a Climate Reality Leader, and won an Honorable Award from the Women’s Economic Forum.  

She has helped countless clients land their dream job with prestigious organizations such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Starbucks, AT&T, Nordstrom, and many other large and small organizations.

Sonja has some great tools to help you strategize for, negotiate for, and achieve the salary you deserve:

www.DynamoIncome.com is a 14-minute free webinar that will set you on the right path to career clarity.

www.DynamoCareers.com/Calculator is a tool that computes the extra income that you could be earning over the course of your career you you take a strategic approach to salary bumps. 

Connect with Sonja at www.linkedin.com/in/sonjaprice/

Learn more about Sonja at www.DynamoCareers.com.

We often get hung up on ATS when writing our career documents and communicating regarding our skills, but there are 3 key elements that are often overlooked:

Listen in to how you can streamline your communication by incorporating these elements.

In this episode I share best practices for getting your resume past ATS (Applicant Tracking Systems) and into the hands of the hiring manager.

Specifically, I talk about the 3 areas of your resume that have the greatest impact on the ATS filter:

To view my resume samples and see how I incorporate these elements, visit www.wordsofdistinction.net/samples

It’s so HARD for me to talk about myself!

I get it.

You don’t feel the need to shout your achievements from the rooftops. You’re a high achiever, and there’s a reason you got where you are: you spend more time showing what you can do, so you haven’t needed to talk about it.

And to be clear, showing vs. telling is the first rule of creating a standout career profile.

But you need to promote yourself, because it’s the only way you’re going to rise above the competition.

Listen to my thoughts on finding the perfect pitch between self-promotion and humility.  

If you want to be prepared for your next interview, you won't want to miss my conversation with Shelley Piedmont, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, a career coach and job search expert who has hired for roles that span entry-level hourly positions to senior leadership roles at Fortune 500s to small, private businesses.

Shelley has been a Corporate Recruiter and HR Director, and holds two senior certifications in Human Resources. In 2018, Shelley launched her own company to help job seekers find work they can love. She helps job seekers find career clarity, develop a job search strategy, and market themselves through a targeted resume, engaging LinkedIn profile, and thorough preparation for interviews. Follow or connect with Shelley here: www.shelleypiedmont.com, https://www.linkedin.com/in/ShelleyPiedmont

I can get excited during football season, even if I don’t know a first down from an offside. Why? Because I love the stories behind the stats. Recruiters and hiring managers do, to!

Listen in to learn how you can draw on your stories to attract recruiters.

Send me an email if you'd like help with your stories.

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