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

Maybe you really enjoyed your job when you started…years ago. But now, you stroll into work each morning disengaged and hopeless. You're not alone. About 50% of people go through this exact cycle in their job: excited, learning stops, they feel stuck. Hear how Laura confidently and successfully switched industries after being at a job for 8 years.

What you'll learn

• How to know when it's time to leave your job.
• The importance of self reflection in the career change process.
• How to successfully switch industries no matter how long you've been in your current one.
• The tools and resources to use when making 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. Laura's "Where Are They Now?" Episode - Positives and Negatives of Starting A New Career: Is It Worth It? (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
2. Executive Burnout: Making A Midlife Career Change (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

Are the expectations of others holding you back from doing work that is truly fulfilling? Most of us feel like we have to behave like one person when we're at work, and a different person when we're at home or in our social circles. That in itself creates a social expectation. If you want to be yourself at all times, you're bucking the trend. Because, in our world today it's not "normal" to get paid to be who you are, using your true strengths instead of just the skills you've picked up in various roles along the way. But, you want to know the weirdest part? By resisting being your most authentic self at all times (because of fear) we are ensuring that we stay unhappy by default. Learn how to go against the grain and find a career that allows you to be YOU!

What You'll Learn

• How to model living authentically during a career change to find a career that fits
• How to modify your job offer to reflect what you really want
• How your boss can support you during your career change
• The importance of finding your strengths to determine your ideal role

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)
3. Six Career Experiments To Help You Discover Your Ideal New Role (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

Everyone and their mother is going to email you about your resolutions and goals now that it's the beginning of 2018. I don't want to do that to you. Plus you already know I have a serious aversion to doing what everyone else is doing?

So instead I thought I would email you an example of what NOT to do and then give you a complete step by step process of how completely reframe your future!

What's the difference between a meager change vs a paradigm shifting change?

It takes completely reframing your future to be able to achieve a paradigm shifting change. More importantly when you go through the efforts to make them happen, you will not be the same person you were beforehand.

A paradigm shift you want to make might not have anything to do with travel or fitness or a "lack of mortgage". It can be anything you want it to be. I'm very sure that there is something that you've wanted that you just haven't thought it was possible so you haven't seriously considered it.

In this conversation with Chris we get deep into how:

• Take off some of the pressure by learning the difference between a startup and an income generating project.
• Learn how a side hustle is different from being a full blown entrepreneur.
• There is nothing wrong with you if you don't want to quit your job tomorrow and take a big risk to start your own thing. You have other options.
• Not everyone is meant to be an entrepreneur but that doesn't mean you can't have your own thing on the side.
• Learn how to decide what kind of side hustle is right for you.
• How you can use your power of observation and curiosity to find possible side hustles that fit you.
• Learn the steps to identify and execute an effective side hustle.
• Learn how to truly identify and get specific with your ideal customer.

I remember in 2006 I had just been fired from a job that I hated.

I was pretty determined to not have to go back to "just another job" where I would spend my days just waiting for the weekend as I grinded it out in meetings that had no meaning to me.

So I began learning everything I could about people who get well paid AND love their work. Let's call these people "Happy High Achievers"

One of the things that I observed right away is that Happy High Achievers don't often get jobs by traditional means. When you're outside and looking in it almost seems random. It's not though.

It also doesn't have anything to do with applying 200 plus times on Indeed or LinkedIn.

So how do they do it?

Well we've talked in the past about the importance of prioritizing what you want. That's step 1, you must understand where you're going to make it easier to get there. That said Happy High Achievers realize that people hire other people (not companies and not computers) which means that the very biggest short cut to finding work that fits you (or even getting positions created for you) is through relationships.

Now over the years I personally have found the very fastest way to begin a relationship with someone else isn't networking events (and it definitely isn't speed networking!) It's also not social media.

Instead it's through something far easier: introductions.

Emilie Aries is the Founder and CEO of Bossed Up, an organization that promotes a program that helps thousands of women step into their own power as the boss of their lives and careers.

After having fought career burnout herself, Emilie made it her mission to share her experience and continue to educate women on how to craft happy, healthy, and sustainable career paths that focus on preventing burnout by providing support to help women navigate pivot points in their careers and lives.

• You'll learn the 3 core variables to help fight burn out
• We discuss how breaking away from "the norm" and changing your mindset will help you see and value your self-worth
• Why we should all stop chasing those "merit badges" if we want to truly thrive in our careers and prevent burn out
• Investing in yourself and why you should ALWAYS put your oxygen mask on first!
  • The power of saying, "No."

• Learn why it's important to be authentic and honest during the interview process and how it can put you a step above the rest.
• How can hard conversations lead to better opportunities?
• Learn how defining the lifestyle you want and including that want into your job search can make all the difference.
• The fear of money may be holding you back from making a change. Learn how to overcome that fear and get clear on your money situation.
• Could staying in your current situation actually be costing you money? Listen and we will tell you how to find out.
• Maybe that great accomplishment shouldn't be on your resume - Learn what should and shouldn't be on your resume when making an industry switch.
• Hear how not taking yourself too seriously and joking around can lead to more connections and more opportunities.
• Find out how interviews can not only help you learn about a particular job but can help you define what kind of environment you will truly excel in.

What if you could have a system to rely on to make all your important decisions?

My friend Pete Mockaitis and I had a great conversation on the podcast today about how our decisions and needs evolve over time, and he shared a decision-making framework with two critical questions you can use as "mental weightlifting" to help make smart decisions faster.

I love his framework because it allows you to be less reactive and more intentional and proactive, which is very helpful in all areas of life (not just career stuff). I'd love to hear what you think, too!

Let me tell you about a great problem to have -- and a question that came from one of our students inside of Career Change Bootcamp, our signature program.

Laura said:

"I'm really interested in a particular company, and I've now spoken to four people who work there. I've gotten really good at being genuinely interested in learning about roles and companies without actually "asking" anything...But now I want the job... so how do I graciously and not awkwardly shift the conversation from tell me about what you do, to... you should hire me because?"

Curious to know the answer? Or, have a hypothesis of your own?

Find out the exact strategy I recommended for Laura in today's episode of the podcast.

• How to make potential employers feel like they are making the decision to hire you without any selling on your part.
• How to go from researching and exploring a company that you think is a right fit to getting hired.
• Learn how trust and relationship building are the foundations for landing your dream job.
• Understand how humans don't make objective choices based off of resumes but instead on knowing, liking, and trusting you.
• How important it is to be a partner with the company and people you are seeking out because it makes the decision a shared responsibility and gives it weight.
• Move from being a job seeker to the researcher, the interviewer, and a partner in the process.

• Walk through the four questions you must ask yourself before giving yourself permission to make a substantial life change and leave the work that doesn't fit you.

• How to determine if you can make a clean getaway or if it's time to find a bridge job to get you where you want to go.
• Find out what can happen if you jump right into an opportunity just because it's there without first doing the work to figure out what you want.
• How taking a sabbatical, if you can endure it financially, can lead you to the right next steps.
• How to get past the fear that you will just be jumping from the frying pan into the fire.
• When is it okay to leave your job with nothing else lined up?
• Learn how much time you should budget to allow you to find your next opportunity that is the right fit.
• Learn about a bridge job and whether it's a good step for you.