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

A huge part of navigating your career search is the challenge of convincing yourself to wait for the right fit and trusting your ideal role will come along. Knowing when to walk away is extremely difficult at times, but learning to trust your gut feeling can help you navigate these decisions. Peter Stark, author of "The Only Negotiating Guide You'll Ever Need" joins Scott to discuss how your gut feelings can direct your career search, and more!

What you'll learn

• How to practice negotiation in everyday conversation
• Steps to negotiate a raise (Peter takes you step by step)
• How to decide when to negotiate and when to walk away
• The importance of envisioning what you want out of your career trajectory

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

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

You've realized it's time to make a career change, but you've likely also realized doing so is a big commitment that will take time and dedication. How on earth can you fit this into your life when you already have a completely full schedule? On today's episode, Scott dives into how to create more time and space in your life to make a career change.

What you'll learn

• How to create 5-10 hours a week of time you didn't have before
• Specific tips on how to simplify your daily/weekly tasks
• How to identify what is stealing your time

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

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. Changing Careers (When You Don't Know Your Next Job Title) (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
2. Should I Quit My Job? How to Know It's Time (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

Linking achievement to happiness or contentment is a common theme in today's society, especially when it comes to evaluating a career. However, to live a fulfilling life and do meaningful work you must learn how to love the life you have, and live without regret. Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, author of "The Earned Life," discusses earning your path to fulfillment & continually reinventing yourself so you are never truly stuck.

What you'll learn

• How to have confidence in starting over in your career or switching industries
• The problem with our society's overfocus on achievement
• The importance of being open minded specifically when it comes to your career

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

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

When you receive a job offer, you are in the best position to negotiate. It's your time to get what you want whether that is more money, better benefits, flexibility... On the other hand, if you've been with a company for a few months (or years) and think it's about dang time to ask for a raise, you can (and should!) Listen in as author & negotiation expert, G. Richard Shell gives real life examples of job and salary negotiation.

What you'll learn

• How to ask for more money when you receive a job offer
• The trick to making negotiation less awkward
• How to prepare and set goals for your next negotiation
• How to ask for a raise

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

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. How to Figure Out What You Really Want (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
2. Stuck in a Career You're Unhappy With? Fear Of Taking Risks Could Be Keeping You There (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

Haley wanted a career that was more flexible (and fulfilling). However, she was fearful a career pivot would jeopardize the experience and success she had gained over the past decade as a marketing executive. Learn how Haley made a career change to something that aligned with her priorities without derailing her career trajectory.

What you'll learn

• How to know when it's time to leave your long-term career (even if it's going well!)
• The importance of giving yourself permission to get out of your career comfort zone
• How to align each phase of your life with your career

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

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. Should I Quit My Job? How to Know It's Time (Spotify / Apple Podcast)
2. Changing Careers (When You Don't Know Your Next Job Title) (Spotify / Apple Podcast)

What happens when the career plan you've alway had falls apart? Anna VanRemoortel's identity was heavily tied to her academic job, so when she realized she was no longer excited about her work and questioned her career's direction, she was left feeling like she was lacking in all areas of her life.

In this episode, Anna details the highs and lows of dropping out of her PhD program and becoming an executive director (in less than a year!)

To binge-listen to more career happiness success stories, find all the podcasts on the Happen To Your Career Podcast Page

Want to know how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over? Check out our Career Change Guide

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

Transitioning careers is hard work, and there are a lot of ups and downs, but when you feel that tug like you were meant for more… you've got to make it happen.

Angela Barnard wasn't always sure what her career would be, but from a young age she realized it was up to her to design her life.

Learn how Ang became the successful career coach she is today by aligning her strengths and values, getting uncomfortable, and believing in herself every step of the way.

To binge-listen to more career happiness success stories, find all the podcasts on the Happen To Your Career Podcast Page

Want to know how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over? Check out our Career Change Guide

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

One of the pillars of career growth is self-development. When it comes to communicating with our team and even our family and friends, it's important to know how to manage emotions and have productive, yet difficult, conversations. Negotiation expert Kwame Christian discusses how to use his 3-part framework to gain confidence in your conversation skills and become a better negotiator in every aspect of your life.

What you'll learn

• How to use Kwame's 3-step framework to improve your negotiation skills
• Tips to prepare for salary negotiation and how to managing your emotions during the conversation
• How to negotiate anything, specifically during a career change

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

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. Executive Burnout: Making A Midlife Career Change (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

Many of the people that we have worked with here at HTYC tend to go through several career changes on their own. They try many of the traditional job search methods, and they don't see lasting results. Usually, they start excited about their new role, but then, at some point, start realizing that something is off. Sometimes the role or company doesn't match your values. Sometimes the role doesn't match your strengths.

Laura Parker used to work for a global law firm for 12 years, and made a change to this technology company 2 years ago. It didn't take long for her to realize that she needed to make another change, and that's where she found this podcast. But I'm getting ahead of her story. We need to jump back and see why she needed to leave the law firm in the first place?

Distraction from achieving what's most important to you?

Distraction that takes you away from who you want to be spending your time with?

Who better to answer this question than the person who wrote "Indistractable: How to control your attention and choose your life." I read it and loved it so much that I bought it for my entire team for Christmas.

Here to teach us the difference between traction and distraction is author Nir Eyal.

To binge-listen to more career happiness success stories, find all the podcasts at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast

Want to know high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over

https://www.happentoyourcareer.com/career-change-advice-guide-backed-by-research/

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