Joining us in the booth this week is Ivy, who is a Human Resources professional with over 11 years experience across various industries including luxury fashion.

In this episode we discuss:

- How she transitioned from recruitment to HR

- What HR really does

- Whether HR ‘decides’ if an employee gets fired

- Secrets HR know that we don’t!

- Companies using ‘the 9 box grid’ to assess you

- The 4 different energies & how it impacts your career

- Introverts vs extroverts at work

- How introverts can get promoted

- Why people are passed over for promotion

- How do go from undervalued to promoted and much more

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Preview

01:08 - Intro

01:44 - Meet HR professional Ivy Maria

04:09 - Growing up in Queens Park 

06:31 - Where my drive to succeed came from! 

08:11 - The school system failed us!

11:52 - I learnt by creating PowerPoints! 

13:21 - How I got into recruitment 

17:11 - How I went from recruitment to HR 

18:28 - What does someone in HR do? 

20:39 - Does HR decide who gets fired? 

22:25 - Secrets HR knows that we don’t!

27:45 - The 9 box grid!

29:40 - The importance of self-promotion for your career 

33:01 - Introverts vs extroverts at work 

36:58 - How to get promoted at work as an introvert 

38:39 - How do you become undervalued at a company? 

41:38 - Your company shouldn’t be giving you trauma!

46:01 - Your manager isn’t your only ally 

48:33 - The best employees do this!

50:33 - The 4 different types of energies 

57:18 - The 4 step framework 

59:12 - How to go from undervalued to promotion

01:05:11 - Do you need to do extra curricular activity to get a promotion?

01:12:03 - How to have a rich life in your career

01:14:25 - How to land your next role 

01:17:08 - How I excelled in my career and became a senior manager

01:19:31 - Sign up to Ivy’s FREE Career Masterclass

01:21:21 - Final words

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