Career Elevation

Hello and Happy December to you,

How do you talk about that job that you hated? I’ve been in your shoes. I’ve had that job that just sucked! I wanted to get out but I didn’t know how, where to go, or what my first step was. So here is a little storytime. I was working a dental job and the dental community is very small, and usually, word gets around if there is a quirky dentist. I remember going to a working interview and feeling the need to explain why I didn’t want to work where I was at. In this working interview, I’m sure that the dentist asked the employees to ask questions, to poke and prod and come back at the end of the day to talk about what they found out.

Well, I’ll admit that I wasn’t as graceful with my words as I should have been.

Rather than saying negative things, what I should have done is share the positivity about the office and what I learned. Sharing the negativity never helps and the hiring manager will just assume that they’ll be the next office that you talk about.

When answering the question, why did you leave your last job, or why do you want to leave your current job; always follow up with these examples in mind.

If your boss or manager is rude and you’ve done everything to try to change it and nothing seems to get better.

Your answer could be: My boss and I are on two different levels with X. However, with Y, we were on the same page. I’ve learned so much being where I am and I know more about X because of working here. I am happy that I was able to work here and learn about Z and how it associate with X. I think that by learning more about X, Y and Z with my boss, I can take all my current knowledge and apply it to Position A today and become who you need me to mold into in the future.

Having a bad manager is one of the top reasons why people leave the job they’re at. So be cautious about the wording that you chose, you’ll never know if that manager you’re sitting across the table from is self-conscious that they’re a bad manager. Being a manager is hard and it takes a lot of learning, training, and confidence.

That manager you’re interviewing with knows that we’re living in the land of opportunity. There are so many openings all over the place.

There will always be something good that comes out of the job you’re in. You’ll have learned something, met someone, gained a skill. Reach deep down inside and see what it is that was the positive and highlight these areas while trying to avoid and be cautious of the negatives.

Don’t be that negative nancy, no one wants to work with her!

I’ve kept today’s podcast short, sweet and to the point! I also want to remind you that today is the last day for the Career Upgrades Course sale! If you’re planning on switching jobs or careers, this course is full of juicy information that will help you upgrade your resume and cover letter. It will help increase your interview skills and it even gives you clothing options with Amazon links to the clothing. To get the discount, either email me at [email protected], or PM me on Facebook, contact me quick because I only have a few more coupon codes left, and one of them has your name on it!

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Welcome back,

Last week we talked about how you can position yourself when you don’t have any experience in the field that you want to go into. As I was going through the podcast I was thinking about you, the one who has no idea where you want to go, but this job isn’t it!

So, you’re still totally lost and you still don’t know what your dream job is? I’ve got some questions that I’d like you to really think about and work through. Check out the link below to get this free work page!

Let’s dive in, if you’re driving, or working out, or cooking, please be safe, and maybe listen then download the workbook and do these activities.

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First things first, Write down the positives and negatives of your current jobs. I like to do this with any big decision that I just cannot decide what I’d like to do. Positives can also be what you like to do in your job. If you don’t have anything in positives, it’s obviously time for a change, I hope you’re working on your resume and organizing your office, so you can run when you get the chance!

After you’ve completed these questions, take time to reflect. This is the time to take your positives and likes about your job and search for those attributes in another career for you to work in. If you’re still 100% lost, I do have a website on the PDF that you can go to. I filled out the whole thing it took about 30 minutes, but it was very accurate and really gave me some information about myself. It gave me attributes that describe me and I can use those attributes to continue to grow myself.

I’m going to start wrapping this up with a quote from one of my favorite books “The most natural thing to do when you get knocked down is to get back up”. Think about this literally, if you get knocked down, you’re not going to stay there forever, you’re going to get back up and brush yourself off. Why do we let so much get to us mentally? Next time your boss isn’t so great at constructive feedback, and you feel knocked down. I would love if you could get back up- mentally, be like Jay-Z and brush your shoulders off. I’m not going to be able to get that out of my head now, so sorry not that sorry lol. (In case you need to now listen to the song.... haha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz_-VaTHpc8 )

While you’re on my website, don’t forget about the Career Upgrades course! What is this course I speak about you ask? This course will help you to upgrade your resume, references, cover letter, it helps increase your interview skills, what you should wear in an interview, and even how to follow up. I’m here for you every step of the way because I was once in your shoes, and I hated it. I’m here to help pull you up and out. I’ll help you gain the confidence to do it on your own, because you know you can, and I know you can. You’ve got it deep down inside, you started listening to this podcast, you found me here, or on my website, my blog, you found me for a reason, now let that reason come to fruition and continue on.

Alright, next week's podcast topic: how do you talk about a job that you just left or you’re trying to leave, without it sounding terrible.

Stay tuned and have a wonderful Thanksgiving and Black Friday, and remember to leave the store a little better than when you walked in. Oh P.S. I’ve got a special on my said starting this Wednesday! The deal is a surprise, so go check out the website to see the golden coupon!!

Ok, see you next Monday!!

Welcome back!

This podcast comes from a post Career Elevation's Facebook page  “Do you have any questions about changing careers? I’d love to answer your question in my next podcast! “

A comment popped up by Stephanie  She asks “How do you get someone, or a company for that matter, to take a chance on you when you have no experience other than clinical?” Great question! Stephanie is a dental hygienist, and I previously was in the dental field, so I won’t use as much dental lingo and so l can broaden this topic and make it more applicable to everyone, yet still answering her question.

Here's the thing, nobody can tell you that you don’t have experience. Now is your time to open your eyes and see what you really can do, once you’re not scared anymore.

Ok hear me out, if you’ve been a dental hygienist and you want to get into sales, selling products to dental hygienists, how do you not have experience? You know the lingo, you know the people, you know how to connect, you already sell to your patients. You sell them on why it’s important to brush and floss, you sell them on why they need that crown, you sell them on why they need this deeper cleaning. You’re already halfway there baby! This isn’t a huge career shift, this is a pivot.

Once you stop seeing this as “I’ve always been a hygienist, this is all I know” To realizing “I’ve been doing this the whole time, but this time, I’m just taking a jump to the right.”

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It’s never too late

Make your resume bomb, like you! Then make a review letter that highlights what you’ve been up to, what you’ve learned and bring it to your interview. I’ve got how to create a review letter in my course “Career Upgrade” as well.

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Sell yourself, create an elevator pitch, show them why you deserve this position, and why they won’t regret this decision. Start reading books by Brian Tracy, he’s got 55 of them. My favorites that could apply to Stephanie and to anyone else is

Close that Sale

Eat that frog

Negotiation

Goals

Sales management

You can listen or read these on a free app called Hoopla or online at www.hoopladigital.com

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Thank you for tuning in today, please share this with friends who are looking to make a career change. If you feel moved to leave me a review on Facebook at Career Elevations or a review on iTunes, I’ll be forever grateful and I just may read your review on the next podcast! Don’t forget about the Career Upgrades Course on my website,careerelevations.mykajabi.com/careerupgrade  I’ll provide a link below as well.

Meet me back here next Monday morning. Next weeks topic is “Help, I’m totally lost but I know this isn’t where I want to be” This is for those of you who know you’re not in the right place at work, but you seriously don’t know where to go from here! Until I see you in my inbox, or next Monday, make today fantastic!

Welcome Back! Today’s podcast we will be talking about "What You Shouldn’t Say in an Interview".

I won’t do [blank task] or I can’t

I don’t know-how

I’ll try anything or I know I’m over way qualified but… 

You guys 

What exactly would my responsibilities be? 

Just a heads up or just to let you know

I’m sorry what was the question again 

I know I shouldn’t say this but

No, I don’t have any questions

Thank you for sharing your time with me. I’d also like to mention that you can get an early bird special if you pre-register for the “Career Upgrades Course”. The course will be released on November 15th, which is just 4 days away! Then on the 15th, the price will go up, so get it while it's low! careerelevation.mykajabi.com/careerupgrade

Stay tuned for next Monday’s podcast which comes to us from Stephanie Brady  She asks “How do you get someone, or a company for that matter, to take a chance on you when you have no experience other than clinical?” Great question! Stephanie is a dental hygienist, I will broaden this topic and make it more applicable to everyone, yet still answering her question. Next week we will talk about “How to get a company to look at you even if you have no experience”

Welcome back!

If you refuse to change it will leave you in chains. I’d like to help bust you out of those chains and stop saying “That’s the way we’ve always done it”.

Forbes says that at least 50% of people are unhappy with their jobs. Over half of America doesn’t like what they’re doing, to that I say “you’re not a tree, you can move on”. Life is so much better when you’re doing something that you love.

How to know when to leave

1- If after the learning curve, you still feel it’s not right…

2- You’re in it for only the money

3- You’re ashamed of telling people where you work

4- It affects your home life

5- It’s changing you, and not for the better

6- You watch the clock and clock out precisely at 5 pm every day

7- You always say TGIF, I’m so happy for the weekend

These are the chains you need to break free from. And here’s how you can start.

1-Build your resume and references(Hint hint, I have a course to help you with these! ;))

2- Start asking around for “a friend who doesn’t want to disclose her identity” for a career shift

3- Start finding connections through colleagues (if you want to stay in the same field)

4- Save money (I always feel more secure when I have more money in the bank!)

5- Tie up loose ends, finish tasks that you’ve been meaning to finish.

6- Start creating “How-To’s” for the person who will take your position. This will apply for smaller businesses or if you need to directly train your replacement. Also, it’s a really nice thing to do, always leave a place a little better than when you came into it.

7- Obviously, start sending resumes

Take these one-through-seven steps and start checking them off. Whether it takes seven weeks or seven months to find a new job, I will always recommend sticking with your job until you find a new job to replace your old job. For one, this looks much better on your resume and two, it’s easier on the checkbook. So whatever kind of a timeline you think that you’ll need, write down what weeks you’ll be doing what and actually do it, no one will find a new career for you. It’s your time to shine, it’s your time to step in the right direction. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.

And remember, if yesterday was a heavy day, put it down, you can’t pick it back up and continue anyways!

Thank you for listening, I’d also like to mention that.... (I'm hesitant (but happy) to even say this...) I'm offering my Career Elevation Course for $49 if you prepay. The course will be released on November 15th, and the price will never ever be $49 again. In this course, you will learn how to set yourself aside from the other resumes, update your references, cover letter, help with interview questions and even what you should wear to an interview. Complete with Amazon links to buy some of the clothing, seriously, there isn't a course out there this complete, get in line now!

Stay tuned next Monday’s episode “Things not to say in an interview” and also the reasoning behind why you shouldn’t say them. Please subscribe if you like these podcasts to keep updated on all the latest career change help. Also, feel free to leave a comment to get your question answered!

Mindset is one of the hardest things to get right, so start thinking about being more positive now! 

The best time to start was in the past, the second-best time to start is now!

If you associate with eagles, you will learn how to soar. If you’re always walking around with the chickens, you’ll never learn how to soar like an eagle. Find out ways to position yourself to hang out with the eagles.

What will you have to learn if you ask to sit with some higher-up colleagues that you don’t normally sit with for lunch?

See what they’re doing, and replicate it, then do it better!

Write down your goals, you’re 42% more likely to succeed if you write it down.

Imagine if your boss is ALWAYS looking, would you still be doing the things that you do at work?

Never, never, never surrender your dream to the noisy negatives. My mom said one of the most valuable comments to me as a kid. “ No one can make you feel anything” UGGGHHH I hated that, but she was so right! No one can make me feel anger or sadness if I don’t let them. Find ways to take the negative and leverage that to your advantage. Have you ever realized the people who usually tell you that you can’t do something, haven’t ever really don’t much for themselves? Again- never surrender your dreams to noisy negatives. They can’t kick you down unless you let them.

I was told that I shouldn’t be manager, then 6 months later, in a review, I was told that I was the best employee ever- listen to more in episode 2.

Take risks and aim high. Read or listen to the book “Ready, fire, aim” by Michael Masterson. The whole concept of the book is to prepare/ get ready, the fire begins and the aim is to correct and find out where your target it and redirect. So many of us, me included, have paralysis due to not being perfect. Nothing needs to be perfect to launch. If I waited until I had 10 episodes lined up and created before releasing, I never would have started a podcast. I was late and didn’t get to release my podcasts how I wanted them to be because of a family emergency- which I was using as an excuse, we all do it. BUT I’m back at it and continuing to create content for YOU!

Remember -Being anything other than an optimist doesn’t serve you.

What I started doing to help me stay accountable to my work is to write out weekly what I was going to do after work. I work during the day with my husband on our Amazon business and I come home and work on my business, Mon, Wed, Thur, Fri, Sat, Sun. Tuesdays I have Toastmasters which only helps me in this business, but it's also a night off. I started with a whiteboard calendar, I write in red the events that I have to go to, like Toastmasters or family functions. In purple, I write what I would like to do this week and I have a green checkmark next to the things I complete.

I’ve also heard that being really diligent and writing down everything you do every 30 minutes will help you understand what you’re doing with your time. If you’re great at scrolling through the IG or Facebook, then put a timer on your phone for a certain amount of time, or only scroll when you’re in the bathroom. I haven’t tried this yet, but I will soon! The calendar really has helped me stay focused a lot! It doesn’t have an amount of time on it, but I know how satisfied or dissatisfied I will feel in myself if I do something else when I should be working on another task.

If you prepay for the Career Elevation Course, it will be $49, once the course is launched, it will go up to $97 and will never be as low as $49 again! Send me an email asking how to get the BEST PRICE EVER! This course will help you with your resume, references, cover letter, interview questions and even clothing options- with Amazon links to actually buy the clothes!! You'll never find something more complete!

Now is your time to fix your mindset and soar with the eagles.

Welcome back,

I keep getting asked, "How do I get motivated to change my job?" Well, I have three ways that will help YOU get motivated, starting TODAY.

1- Read/ Listen to books, podcasts, & YouTube videos. You should be filling any extra time that you have with motivation. Any time that you're driving, showering, cooking, cleaning, getting ready, or yard work. You are a conglomerate of the 5 closest people in your life, let motivational audio be one of those 5 and help lift you up.

2- Write down something that you will do TODAY that will get you one step closer to your dream career. It can be as simple as canceling my event on Friday so I can work on my resume. Or it could be sign up for the class or course in the field I want to be in. 

3- Find yourself a motivational/ accountability partner. This person can be a current friend of yours, or you can find one online, but they must be at your level or above you, don't select someone that you have to pull up right now.

Here are some books that have helped me in the past to help build confidence, keep me motivated and help me to grow.

Brian Tracy- Close That Sale

Peter Diamandis & Steven Kolter- Abundance The Future Is Better Than You Think

Rachel Hollis- Girl, Wash Your Face

Ben Horowitz- The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Jen Sincero- You Are A Badass

John Mason- An Enemy Called Average (This is one of the best books I’ve ever read!)

Atul Gawande- The Checklist Manifesto

Joe Navarro- What Every Body Is Saying

Simon Sinek- Start With Why

Richard Koch- The 80/20 Manager

Brian Tracy- Just Shut Up and DO IT!

Al Ritter- The 100/0 Principle

David Zerfoss- Stress Is A Choice

Omar Periu- The No-Fail Meeting

Brian Tracy- Eat That Frog

Sally Hogshead- How The World Sees You

Carmine Gallo- Talk Like TED

Brian Tracy- The Psychology of Selling

Dale Carnegie & Associates- The Art of Effective Communication

Lois P. Frankel, PhD- Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office

Michael Masterson- Ready, Fire, Aim

Grant Cardone- If You’re Not First, You’re Last

Jon Acuff- Do Over

Robin Ryan- 60 Seconds & You’re Hired

Dan Harris- 10% Happier

Podcasts that I listen to are...

Brooke Castillo- The Life Coach School (this is super, even if you don't want to be a life coach!) 

Kathy Heller- Don't Keep Your Day Job

Gary Vaynerchuk- The Garyvee Audio Experience 

Chris Guillebeau- Side Hustle School

Jenna Kutcher- Goal Digger

Amanda Boleyn- She Did It Her Way

Amy Porterfield- Online Marketing Made Easy

I also mentioned in the podcast that.... (I'm hesitant to even say this...) I'm offering my Career Elevation Course for $47 if you prepay. The course will be released on November 15th, and the price will never ever be $47 again. In this course, you will learn how to set yourself aside from the other resumes, update your references, cover letter, help with interview questions and even what you should wear to an interview. Complete with Amazon links to buy some of the clothing, seriously, there isn't a course out there this complete, get in line now!

How do you ask for a raise?

2- Ask for a review and review yourself too.  -Be honest about the review that you give yourself and find out what your boss thinks you need to improve upon.

3- Have a dollar amount in your head, for how much you want to make! -Don't allow yourself to settle, if you don't get the amount that you were asking for, ask "What can I do to make $X?" OR "What does your dream employee do in this position?" Or "What is the most important thing to you that I should be doing, every day or now?"

Always be willing to ask (and receive) the question "How can I do better?" It's really hard to be the perfect employee, but these questions here can get you one step closer to becoming the best employee ever!

So go work your ass off, find out what you can do better, get a review and get your RAISE!

I also mentioned in the podcast that.... (I'm hesitant to even say this...) I'm offering my Career Elevation Course for $47 if you prepay. The course will be released on November 15th, and the price will never ever be $47 again. In this course, you will learn how to set yourself aside from the other resumes, update your references, cover letter, help with interview questions and even what you should wear to an interview. Complete with Amazon links to buy some of the clothing, seriously, there isn't a course out there this complete, get in line now!