Ep13: Jelena Radonjic Secrets to doing what you love and never working another in your life.
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Are you looking to career transition into a career or business that makes a difference to the world? Or you want to make a change towards making money from a passion?
Meet Jelena a career transition expert who has worked with people all over the world. Her LinkedIn headline is -Official Member at Forbes Coaches Council, Career Fulfilment Coach, People Connector
Jelena has impressive techniques and exercises that can help you find a career or business that is congruent with your values and passion.
Episode summary
In the first part, we discuss the 1st secret and forgotten step to career transitioning - Unpacking your gift.
This vital step is all about values, strengths and goals. Jelena shares exercises you can complete by yourself to start the process of unwrapping your gift.
We look at what are values, and where do they come from?
Investigating what you enjoy and love can lead to surprising truths about what you like.
By completing the exercises and unwrapping your gift, you'll magically reveal your non-negotables. Non-negotiables are the essential criteria for your next role or business when career transitioning
The most challenging type of career move is one where you're looking to do something completely different from what you're doing now. Maybe you're an accountant looking to become a freelance photographer. A complete change to passion-based work is the scariest style of a career change. Jelena explains how to go about and what you need to prepare for. Example accepting that you will need to more time and money if going from one sector to another.
After you've unwrapped your gift, what do you next?
Jelena explains this is what she called the 'explore' stage — doing things like Qualifying and analysing future opportunities. Grading jobs or business ideas against a matrix that includes values and more tangible measures like salary, location and industry.
For business owners - This is all about creating your business plan and paying particular attention to setting up something you will love doing and is congruent with your values.
The last part of this episode looks at the applying stage.
In the world of applying online, many people follow a process, and as such, their application looks like everyone else's. Jelena shows us how to develop a narrative based on experience, achievements, competencies and skills.
Distilling all these down into an elevator pitch and then writing that in the body of an email when sending a CV, can be a great way to stand out and become memorable
By being smart like using the body of an email to show more of you as a person, you really can bring your mission alive and become memorable.
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