Get Yourself the Job

Jennifer Hill talks to career and LinkedIn expert, Andrew Ko, about upcoming trends for 2018. Andrew emphasizes the importance of in-person networking and building your brand via LinkedIn when looking for a new position. Andrew also discusses an increase in the use of Chatbots and AI both in the hiring process in 2018. He also suggests using

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Andrew R. Ko is a certified career coaching and training professional. He is an Executive Career Coach consultant with Dragon Career Services, a Career Coach with Lee Hecht Harrison and is a Facilitation and Training consultant with Los Angeles Valley College. In addition to his consulting activities he is involved with mission-driven work as the Lead Trainer and Career Coach for the Salvation Army Haven Veteran Employment Services. He also serves as an adviser for a technology startup in the career development industry.

Andrew’s professional background includes a 10+ year career with a Fortune 500 company and leverages this corporate experience from a highly visible position to better serve his clients.

Andrew is a certified Global Career Development Facilitator. He also holds other certifications in training Gamification and Emotional Intelligence as well as holds certifications from Dale Carnegie and Lee Hecht Harrison. He has a degree in Marketing from California State University Northridge.

When he is not working as a coach and trainer he enjoys art and as a published artist, has sold his work at many solo art exhibits around Los Angeles.

Jennifer Hill talks to corporate anthropologist, Dr. Andi Simon, about change management. Dr. Simon discusses tips for finding a culture that matches with your values. Dr. Simon also discusses how organizations are having to adapt to create cultures that work for Millennials and Baby Boomers alike.

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Andi Simon, author of On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights, is a corporate anthropologist and award-winning author (simonassociates.net). She is the founder and CEO of Simon Associates Management Consultants, designed over a decade ago to help companies use the tools of anthropology to better adapt to changing times. Simon also is a public speaker and an Innovation Games facilitator and trainer. She served as a tenured professor of anthropology and American studies at Ramapo College of New Jersey, and was a visiting professor teaching entrepreneurship at Washington University in St. Louis. Simon has appeared on “Good Morning America” and has been featured in the Washington Post, Business Week and Forbes, and on Bloomberg Radio.

Jennifer Hill asks career expert, Marc Miller: “What are three tips to pivot your career?” Marc emphasizes the importance of doing your research and having the facts before you go to make a career change. He then suggests researching your competition, and most importantly, utilizing other people to help you with your transition.

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Marc Miller’s career has spanned 22 years - IBM, thriving tech startups, a stint as a high school math teacher, a gig raising funds for the Jewish Community Center and, a near fatal bicycle accident that changed his perspective forever. Thirty years of wandering the proverbial career desert taught Marc his most crucial lesson: most people don’t really know what makes them happy at their core, what fulfills them. They pursue money, status, a skill set, all of which provide some level of satisfaction, but not contentment. Marc founded careerpivot.com to help people transition their careers to create successful and fulfilling professional lives.

Jennifer Hill talks to Audra Jenkins, the Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer at Ranstad US, about how the changes in AI and robotics will impact people in the workplace. Audra offers suggestions on how to bridge the gap for women to get equal pay and “create a spot at the table.” Audra suggests retraining as a win/win tool to help stay relevant in a workplace that is quickly changing.

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Audra Jenkins is the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for Randstad US. As chief diversity and inclusion officer, Audra is responsible for working with Randstad’s U.S. operating companies to further diversity strategies both internally and externally to elevate the diversity mission for our customers and Randstad overall. In this role, Audra provides clients across the organization with guidance for effective strategies in diversity, inclusion, veterans and compliance. Audra also helps run Randstad’s Hire Hope program, designed by Randstad to provide career readiness training and job placement services to underserved and at-risk women, including survivors of exploitation and trafficking.

Jennifer Hill asks author and poet, Janne Robinson, about how she came to live her passion of being a writer. Janne talks about growing up in a non-traditional environment and how that helped her to break free of societal norms and pursue what really mattered to her. Janne also discusses the doubts she overcame on her path to writing her first book “This is for the women who don’t give a fuck.”

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Janne Robinson is a 21st-century feminist beat poet. Her voice haunts with the legacy of early feminists and poets such as Gloria Steinem, Charles Bukowski, and Jack Kerouac. Her no sugar shit prose cuts with the honesty and simplicity of Bukowski and the romantic reliability of Kerouac. Her poetry leads like a woman, walking with fire in the footprints of Steinem—breathing sexual liberation, choice, and overall championing women to their birthright of not only equality but leadership.

Robinson notoriously states that her career is to “share slabs of her heart for a living." Her ability to capture the human experience with unrefined sincerity makes her an incredible force in the modern landscape of personal expression.

Her loyal following of enthusiasts on social media are there not only for her brutal honesty and lyrical grace but also for her lifestyle, which is a mirror of her devotion to joy and refusal to work to work to work to die. Robinson’s films and art shit on the societal "shoulds" and norms and encourage people to ‘build their own box’. She is an outrageous idealist and master at effortlessly marrying the life she wishes to live with her work, and this enrages and inspires many who believe they are trapped.

Robinson’s foray into directing and the multimedia world was in directing a spoken word poetry film in NYC involving 18 women reading the lines from her poem, “This Is For The Women Who Don’t Give a Fuck.” The film was a viral sensation online and was nominated for the 2016 Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards.

Janne is very much so crowning at the beginning of what is and will be a triumphant career, and she has begun so with the hearts of millions indebted and watching as it is rare to stumble upon a woman who makes revolution nature.

Jennifer Hill talks to leadership trainer, Laura Dewey, about Emotional Intelligence. Laura focuses on the stimulus, the response and the space in between. Laura emphasizes the importance of taking control of your thoughts and managing your internal self to overcome barriers both personally and professionally.

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Laura Dewey is the Founder of The Self Leadership Lab.

The LAB offers self leadership coaching and training for individuals, executives and companies – with concrete tools and experiential learning to develop new habits and be a better leader to yourself and others; in life and in work.

Getting from Point A to Point B can be easy and graceful or full of stress and struggle. The difference lies in your ability to effectively lead yourself.

As Laura likes to say, “Self Leadership is the Stuff No One Taught Us in School.

Laura began her professional life as a ground breaking female leader in the restaurant industry, but two events changed the course of her life forever: Getting sober in 2003, and later, receiving her Master's Degree in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica.

There, she found a whole new way of being in the world…an inside-out approach. Instead of being rocked by outer circumstances, she learned skills to manage her emotions and master her mindset – no matter what life threw her way.

Not only did Laura discover remarkable ways to improve her own life, but she has the skills, ability, and experience to dramatically improve the lives of others...in a fun environment!

Jennifer Hill asks author and business leader, Simone Milasas, “How can you find a job that brings you joy?”Simone talks about both of her books, “ The Joy of Business" and "Getting out of Debt Joyfully.” Simone suggests putting 10% of your earnings away towards your “honor” fund where you get a chance to celebrate yourself.

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ABOUT SIMONE MILASAS

At the forefront of creative edge business creation and development for over two decades, in many different industries around the world, Simone Milasas has owned companies, created them, managed them and changed them, all with an enthusiasm to invite people to a different possibility.

Simone is the founder of Joy of Business, mentoring business owners around the globe to create greater wealth and happiness through tools and techniques that counter their perceived limitations in business. She is the author of the book Joy Of Business (currently available in 11 languages) and has recently published her second best-selling book Getting Out of Debt Joyfully. In addition, as Worldwide Coordinator for Access Consciousness®, Simone has significantly contributed to both the growth of Access Consciousness and its establishment in 170+ countries over the last 15 years.

Her target is to empower people to see how business is a source for creation. Simone has always believed that anything is possible and desired to inspire people to choose everything they could. She says, “I grew up with the question of ‘Imagine what you would do if you knew you could not fail?’ To me you cannot fail, failure is just the start of something new.”

Simone personally used the tools of Access Consciousness to go from $187,000 in debt to having thriving businesses and being debt-free. She documents this journey and, her learnings along the way, in her two books, Joy of Business and Getting Out of Debt Joyfully.

Jennifer Hill talks to change management expert, Laleh Alemzadeh-Hancock, about how to be authentic in your interviews. Laleh suggests getting curious in your interview and asking inquisitive questions. Laleh also emphasizes being the leader of your own life and offers an excellent tool to utilize when you are feeling frustrated at work or in a personal situation.

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?Laleh Alemzadeh-Hancock is a management and professional services consultant, Right Voice for You facilitator and the founder and CEO of global professional services company, Belapemo. With nearly 30 years’ experience in operational excellence, change management, organizational wellness and business consulting, Laleh has inspired and empowered hundreds of thousands of individuals including Fortune 500 executives, government agencies, non-profit organizations, athletes and veterans. A lifelong entrepreneur and passionate change-agent, Laleh strives to seek out possibility in every problem and aims to facilitate strategic change and optimal growth for all her clients. She is an advocate for people of ages with special needs or disabilities and their caregivers, and served on the Governor of Maryland’s Caregivers Support Coordinating Council for four years. Through her organization, Global Wellness for All, Laleh inspires individuals to create wellness in all areas of their life including individuals with perceived disabilities, to create more and seek greater success.All the best,

Jennifer Hill asks Tracey C. Jones: “How do you survive your non dream job?” Tracey offers advice on dealing with demeaning bosses, bosses who micro-manage, as well as challenging colleagues. She focuses on becoming self-aware, and being open to new experiences.

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Career & Workplace Advisor, Tracey C. Jones, M.B.A., is the author of the career advice book, “A Message To Millennials: What your parents didn’t tell you and your employer wants you to know” (April 2017).

Tracey is the President of Tremendous Leadership, a professional development firm that advises Fortune 500s, government agencies, and universities on issues of leadership, ethics, and employee engagement. Her clients include Liberty Mutual, The American Automobile Association (AAA), The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), United Way, the McCann School of Business, and others.

A Former Air Force Major and Gulf War Veteran, Tracey C. Jones spent 10 years in the corporate boardrooms of The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, where she had top-secret security clearance, Northrop Grumman, a global defense firm, and Applied Materials, a Fortune 500. She is a graduate of the New Mexico Military Institute, The Air Force Academy, and she holds an MBA in Global Management.

Jennifer Hill asks Michael Timmes about what critical skills recent college graduates should focus on in order to be hired. Michael says that it all starts with self awareness. Michael then shares that great leaders need to learn to develop empathy and compassion. Finally, he suggests creating a “mission statement” for yourself and seeing how that “mission statement” aligns with the values of the organization you are interviewing with.

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Michael Timmes is a senior human resource specialist with Insperity. In his role, Michael provides strategic HR guidance and coaching to Insperity clients seeking to develop their human capital. His specialty areas include employee relations, coaching, talent acquisition, career development and performance management. Michael holds a master's degree in Human Resources Management from Rutgers University and a Certified Professional Coaching designation from the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC). He is also the current president of the Jersey Shore Association for Human Resources a Society for Human Resource Management.