Happen To Your Career - Meaningful Work, Career Change, Career Design, & Job Search

Negotiation expert Kwame Christian's motto is: "The best things in life are on the other side of difficult conversations." If we want a more equitable workplace, we have to talk to each other about race. Kwame joins Scott to give tips on approaching difficult conversations and to discuss his new book: How to Have Difficult Conversations About Race: Practical Tools for Necessary Change in the Workplace and Beyond.

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What if you were promoted 4 times over 7 years, each time into a role that fit you better? That's what Maggie did by digging into her strengths and learning how to use them to her advantage. By leaning into her strengths and pivoting into roles that she fully aligned with, Maggie had the satisfaction of finally being able to be herself at work.

What you'll learn

• The importance of staying true to yourself in your career search and roles (and how your strengths can help you do just that!)
• How to use your strengths to continually tweak your career trajectory
• The strategy of negotiation through silence
• How exploring your signature strengths can lead to work you actually enjoy

Visit happentoyourcareer.com/book to learn all about Scott's upcoming book!

Have career change questions or want to make an introduction? Email [email protected]

Want to chat with someone on the team about your situation? Schedule a conversation

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

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Your career is a continual progression, a journey that's never actually completed. The ultimate challenge is eventually learning how to direct that journey. Taking your past experiences and the things you've learned about yourself on the way and creating the exact role you want and expertly navigating your career path. Learn how Quynh used every single experience from being an international student, going through the immigration process and all of her different jobs, to continually pivot into roles that better fit her priorities and life.

What you'll learn

• How to use learnings from your current and past roles to pivot into a career that fits
• The importance of figuring out the exact ingredients that will create your ideal role
• How to figure out your career path by defining your priorities

Have career change questions or want to make an introduction? Email [email protected]

Want to chat with someone on the team about your situation? Schedule a conversation

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

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You will never find meaningful work by staying at a job you're good at but don't enjoy. If you're feeling burned out and unfulfilled at work, you don't have to continue that cycle. Your ideal career is out there! But first you have to figure out what you want out of your career so you can go and get it! Learn how Erin's mindset shift allowed her to realize that her ideal career was right in front of her all along.

What you'll learn

• How to know when it's time to leave a job you're great at
• How Erin overcame her biggest obstacles when switching industries
• Questions to ask in an interview to make sure a role is right for you
• How to use your strengths to create career clarity

Have career change questions or want to make an introduction? Email [email protected]

Want to chat with someone on the team about your situation? Schedule a conversation

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

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1. How to Figure Out What You Really Want (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
2. Should I Quit My Job? How to Know It's Time (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

Finding work you love isn't impossible, but you have to be willing to put in the time and effort and step away from the conventional career change route. If you want to find meaningful work that pays well, it's going to take a lot more than just scrolling through job boards, updating your LinkedIn, polishing your resume and attending networking events. In this episode, Scott chats with 2 career coaches and business owners, Austin Belcak & Janine Esbrand, who help career changers find their ideal roles using unconventional methods.

What you'll learn

• The most effective place to start when you want to make a career change
• What it means to design your career around your life
• The unconventional methods you can use to successfully pivot your career
• How to build relationships to move the needle towards your ideal career

Have career change questions or want to make an introduction? Email [email protected]

Want to chat with someone on the team about your situation? Schedule a conversation

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

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Want to be part of changing how the world thinks about work? Now’s your chance! On this disappearing episode, Scott discusses HTYC’s mission and our 4 open roles. Discover if you’d be a great fit! 

Learn more: https://happentoyourcareer.com/careers/ 

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Our mission is to change the way the entire world works, and that starts with you! Do you have your next vacation on the calendar? Are you preparing yourself and your team for a break? Taking a month (or more!) off of work is possible. It's all about assessing your priorities and being intentional. Scott has returned from his very own intentional hiatus! After a month-long, much-deserved vacation in Greece, he is back and ready to share takeaways from his trip and advice from his longest time away from HTYC.

What you'll learn

• What it really means to thrive at work
• Scott's biggest takeaways from his month in Greece
• How to set your team up for success so you can take time off
• The importance of being intentional

Have career change questions or want to make an introduction? Email [email protected]

Want to chat with someone on the team about your situation? Schedule a conversation

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

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1. How to Figure Out What You Really Want (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
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Do you need to go back to school if you want to make a career change? Maybe you're looking to switch industries and you're wondering if you can do so without going back to school. Or maybe you hustled hard to get to where you are without ever getting a degree, and now you're wondering: Is a career change with no degree possible? Kate & Cindy discuss navigating career changes without a degree, and the advice we give our clients about getting additional degrees to make a career switch.

Not feeling like yourself in your career? Get out of your career funk by using your strengths to become the truest version of yourself at work. Understanding your strengths, and how they work for you, is one of the first steps we emphasize when hopeful career changers approach us. In this episode, Cindy & Kate explore digging into your strengths, narrowing your career search and finding a role that fits you (+brings you happiness and fulfillment!)

What you'll learn

• How to evaluate if you're working within your strengths in your role
• The importance of using your strengths as tools in your career search
• How to differentiate your skills from your strength

Have career change questions or want to make an introduction? Email [email protected]

Want to chat with someone on the team about your situation? Schedule a conversation

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

Related Episodes

1. Discover Your Strengths to Find Your Ideal Career (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
2. Figuring Out Your Perfect Career Match (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

When it comes to finding meaningful work, relationships are in & resumes are out! Turns out if you're looking to make a change to more fulfilling work, your paper resume is actually pretty irrelevant in the career change process. Aligning your experience with a new role or a new industry is possible. You can have a meaningful, fulfilling career that pays well, but trolling job boards with your resume isn't going to make it happen. On this episode, Liz & Ang discuss kickstarting your career change to meaningful work by proactively building relationships… and ditching your resume (just kidding… sort of).

What you'll learn

• Why building relationships will get you farther than your resume
• How to align your experience with a new role and pivot your career
• How building relationships can help you test drive new career opportunities

Have career change questions or want to make an introduction? Email [email protected]

Want to chat with someone on the team about your situation? Schedule a conversation

Free Resources

What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!

Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.

Related Episodes

1. Six Career Experiments To Help You Discover Your Ideal New Role (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
2. Stuck in a Career You're Unhappy With? Fear Of Taking Risks Could Be Keeping You There (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)