Career Talk: Learn - Grow - Thrive

By Stephanie DennisBusiness Careers

Career Talk: Learn - Grow - Thrive episodes

August 21, 2017What To Include And Exclude From Your Resume
Have you ever started applying for jobs and submitted a ton of applications but didn’t really get any responses or getting a ton of rejection letters?
Or not making it past the application stage?
If the answer is yes, there might be something wrong with your resume.

What to include on your resume:
1) Contact information
First and last name (put what you want to be called on your resume, you can put your legal name on your application)

Phone number - it should be the number you want to be contact at (cell phone vs. house phone)

Email

City and state
2) Education
If you have a college degree, include your college degree and beyond

If you do not have a college degree, you want to make sure you have your high school education on there
3) Skills
Should be bulleted out

5-10 skills

Relevant to the jobs you’re applying for
4) Experience
Job history

If you don’t have any working history, you can include college projects and / or volunteer experience

What to exclude from your resume:
1) Graduation dates
2) Objectives
3) References
Remove the references

Also remove the line ‘references available upon request’
4) CAPTIAL LETTERS
5) Long summaries

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14 min
August 14, 2017 Help! My Boss Is A Jerk / Mean / A Bad Leader
Have you ever worked for a boss that was a complete a jerk? Or you thought they may have been the spawn of satan?
I want to talk to you about this situation today because I know it is not easy.
12 Action Items
1) Observe
2) Don’t jump to conclusions
3) Not to let your work suffer
4) Document
5) Keep emails
6) Have really open, honest communication
7) Being that leader
8) Taking the high road
9) Being the better / bigger person
10) Try to determine what motivates them and what sets them off
11) Contributing to and celebrating success
12) If you need to jump ship:
Do your research.
Determine interview questions that you can ask while you’re in an interview with your next future boss.
15 min
August 07, 2017 Need to Make A Career Change? Not Sure Where To Start? I Got You!
Have you ever been in a situation where you knew you needed to make a change in your career and you weren’t sure what change should be?
Or what you want to do?
Or what that change should be?
Sometimes when we need to make a career change it can be overwhelming if we are unclear on what we want to do or where we should be going or even how to get there.
Really the most important thing when we are looking at making a career change is working your plan backwards. Meaning, reverse engineering your career plan. We start out where you want to end up and then work our way backwards and figure out step by step how we are going to get there.
5 Steps to Career Clarity
1) Figure out where you want to go
2) Ask yourself why you want to get there
3) What skills do you need to accomplish, or acquire, that you don’t already have now?
4) Figure out how you’re going to close the gap on the skills you need to have (number 3) and the skills you have now.
5) Start having conversations.
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8 min
July 31, 201710 Ways To Lead Without Authority or Title
10 Ways To Lead Without Authority or Title
Make sure you are coming from a genuine place

Be constantly learning and growing

Want to be the one who is asking the tough questions

Always be asking for feedback

Helping your colleagues when they need it

Don’t wait to be asked to do something

Take on additional responsibilities and be that leader

Asking your manager how you can help

Be a top producer with top quality work

Being positive and staying positive through tough situations

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10 min
July 24, 2017Top 13 Reasons You Are Failing Your Phone Interviews
Top 13 Reasons You Are Failing Your Phone Interviews:
Research or lack thereof research

Eating and / or chewing gum

Not knowing the company you applied to

Not knowing the job you applied to

Coming across as desperate

Applying to every job

Not being able to talk about money

Working out during your phone interview

Smoking

Lying / being caught in a lie / just being shady

Inability or unwillingness to answer questions

Saying yes to a drastic payout

Not aligning with the level of the position
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17 min
July 17, 2017Co-ops vs. Interns / Internships
Have you ever wondered the difference between a co-op and an intern?
Co-ops
Good way to get your foot into the door of a good company you are targeting

Can be required, not always and if you’re part of a co-op program you are stopping classes to work full time

Paid program

Usually lasts about 3-12 months

You get school credit

Heavily related to your school program / major / area of study

Could be part of a rotational program
Interns / Internships
For current students

Internships are typically shorter than the co-ops, usually lasting over the summer or fall/spring

Compensation - can be paid, unpaid or an exchange for housing or something similar

Not typically required

Typically not getting school credit
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7 min
July 10, 2017 I Want To Be A Future Business Owner / Transitioning From Your Corporate Job To Being A Business Owner
I have had quite a few people reach out to me asking how to transition from corporate america to being a business owner.
1) Answer: How do you want to be helping other people?
2) Answer: What skills do you need to learn?
This will be a never ending list!
3) Answer: What Skills do you need to learn before you will feel ready to start?
Make sure this list is what you truly need to learn before you start?
Hint: you can start earlier than you think!
4) Answer: How can your day job help you with your future business?
5) Answer: Can you be working on any cross functional teams?
6) Answer: How are you dedicating your team to learn, test and invest in the things you want to try?
7) Find a business coach you trust online and start consuming their content.
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11 min
July 03, 2017 What Is Your Six Word Story?
Have you guys heard about the six word story?
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What would your six word story be as it relates to your career?
Essentially what this six word story would be, is a story, about your career, in only six words.
What words would you choose?
Mine would be:
Learn, grow, thrive.
Help, coach, teach.
What would be your six word story as it relates to your life in general?
Do you have alignment between the two?
Should they be?
Do you need to make any changes?
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8 min
June 26, 2017 ATS / Applicant Tracking Systems / Resumeland / Resume Black Hole - All Explained
Where does your resume go after you hit submit in an application? It is typically referred to as resmeland which what we are talking about today!
Key points:
1) Upload your resume in every application.
2) There is no keyword search or algorithm that automatically rejects people.
3) You could be rejected without someone looking at your resume.
Thank you so much for listening.
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12 min
June 19, 2017You're Rejected Because You're Overqualified
Have you ever been rejected from a position or from an application for the reason that you are overqualified?
This is legitimate reason to turn someone down for positions however there are a lot of assumptions and myths out there around this topic so let’s talk about this!
I want to talk about this topic in 4 main topics.
Common Myths
People think they are getting rejected because they are too old

“I was told I was overqualified for the position but now what I think is you won’t hire me because I will someday take the hiring manager’s job”

The hiring manager or recruiter feels threatened
Candidate Concerns
Income

Supporting their family

They want to do work that is easier than what they have been doing in the past
HR / Human Resources / Recruiting / Hiring Manager Concerns
Offering people work that is going to challenging and exciting for them

We feel people will leave early or right away

Position alignment

Compensation
Things You Can Do
Aim higher

If you’re looking to do easier work, ensure you are talking to everyone you talk about why you want to make the move and what is motivating this transition
Being overqualified is not the same as being under qualified for a position.
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14 min

About Career Talk: Learn - Grow - Thrive

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Content creator, host, and editor, Stephanie Dennis, is on a mission to empower people to take control of their careers by offering holistic career advice. The goal is to provide everyone with actionable tips, knowledge, skills, and confidence to crush their career goals.