Career Lesson

Career Lesson

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Career Lesson episodes

  • Career Lesson: Head of Personal Investor Services at Vanguard Allie Jenkin on How to be an Outstanding Leader, Her Interesting Journey into Finance & Importance of Diversity

    Allie Jenkin is a Head of Personal Investor Services at Vanguard, one of the largest investment companies in the world. Allie has been in Financial Services for the last 15+ years and previously worked in Coutts bank. Her passion is firmly focused on people - nurturing and developing her own and ensuring the client is at the heart of the decisions being made.


    In Today's Episode You Will Learn:


    1) How not having the plan sometimes can be the best plan. How Allie navigated through her career starting in a military planning firm, moving to accountancy and events and then joining prestigious financial institutions?

    2) What can we do to support women in the workplace and why we need to have diversity in the workplace?


    3) Why do we need to stop worrying about what others think of us? What's a "Personal Board"?


    4) Her perspective on ageism in the workplace


    5) Why is it important to remain calm to be a good leader? How does she strike a good work life balance?


    For behind the scenes content & career tips you can follow Anna on Instagram here.

    40 min
  • Career Lesson: Mark Herschberg, MIT and Harvard Professor, Author of the "Career Toolkit" Book on Career Planning and Importance of Soft Skills

    Mark Herschberg is the author of the "The Career Toolkit, Essential Skills for Success That No One Taught You" book. Educated at MIT, Mark has spent his career launching and fixing new ventures at startups, Fortune 500s, and academia. He’s developed new software languages, online marketplaces, new authentication systems, and tracked criminals and terrorists on the dark web. Mark helped create the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program, MIT’s “Career Success Accelerator”, where he’s taught for twenty years and also serves on the boards of non-profits Techie Youth and Plant a Million Corals.

    In Today's Episode You Will Learn:

    1) The importance of career planning

    2) Based on his Ivy League teaching experience, what skills Mark recommends to develop to facilitate your career

    3) Negotiation as one of the key skills that we need to practice 

    Join us on Instagram for behind the scenes content - it's fun!

    For behind the scenes content & career tips you can follow Anna on Instagram here.

    30 min
  • Career Lesson: Venture Capital Fund Co-founder Anastasiya Belyaeva on Her Journey to VC

    Anastasiya Belyaeva one of the youngest female co-founders of a Venture Capital fund focused on the decentralised Internet. She co-founded Fabric Ventures when she was 23 previously holding multiple roles in other European VC funds including Open Ocean, a Series-A fund that backed multiple billion dollar companies including MySQL and Truecaller. Anastasiya has recently stepped down from the world of VC to get experience on the other side of the table and is currently heading Growth at a project in decentralised finance.

    In Today's Episode You Will Learn:

    1) How Anastasiya made her way into the world of venture capital and told us about an alternative way to traditional applications?

    2) What has she learned as a female founder?

    3) What VC myths has she demystified?

    For behind the scenes content & career tips you can follow Anna on Instagram here.

    21 min

About Career Lesson

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It turns out that while we have been relatively successful in pinpointing the benefits of success, we have failed to understand the impact of failure.