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- Ep 8 - "How to Freelance like a Pro" with Laïla von Alvensleben, Head of Culture and Collaboration at MURAL
In this episode, we will dive into the alluring world of freelancers. What is freelancing? How do you get into it? Is it really security of a 9-5 vs the wild, scary but rewarding world of freelance, or can you have it all? With us in this episode is Laïla von Alvensleben, sharing with us how she does it, and more improtantly, why!
Motivations change over time, what one has studied may no longer be of appeal to forge a career, a young and flexible start-up with little pay may hit the spot one day, and then life-planning and a need for financial security take the spotlight. Learn about the power of a flexible career design with us, and show Laïla some love in the comments on Instagram!
If you are interested in the book on organisational behaviour Laïla mentioned, it is "Reinventing Organizations" by Frederic Laloux.
Have a listen, have a laugh, learn a little and have a fabulous day!
Let's go get it!
HIGHER! -- with Nikki Symmons and Tom Zamzow
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Welcome to Higher! everyone. The podcast where we help you reach higher in your career, and learn with experts in recruitment, entrepreneurship, marketing and many more about what it takes to become a leader in your dream industry.
Be sure to follow #gohigherpodcast on Instagram for a peek behind the scenes, additional resources, and to let us know your thoughts and comments for this episode!
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
47 min - Ep 7 - "How a Lighthouse Idea Can Spawn an Empire" with Rob Fajardo, CEO of Leave Normal Behind
In this episode, we will talk about the power of one breakthrough idea, one ethos, one lighthouse can inspire an entire renaissance. Joining us today is Rob Fajardo, CEO of Leave Normal Behind.
Rob teaches us about the power of giving back as an actual business model, building a movement driven by passion and mututal value, and converting friends into leads and consulting clients. Hold on to your hats folks, this is one for the history books!
Have a listen, have a laugh, learn a little and have a fabulous day!
Let's go get it!
HIGHER! -- with Nikki Symmons and Tom Zamzow
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Welcome to Higher! everyone. The podcast where we help you reach higher in your career, and learn with experts in recruitment, entrepreneurship, marketing and many more about what it takes to become a leader in your dream industry.
Be sure to follow #gohigherpodcast on Instagram for a peek behind the scenes, additional resources, and to let us know your thoughts and comments for this episode!
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
54 min - Ep 6 - "How to Side-Hustle like a Pro" with Cecelia Townes-Tyree, Founder of GladiatHers
In this episode, the spectacular Cecelia Townes-Tyree, Founder of GladiatHers®, shares her most well guarded secrets on how you two can build your own side-hustle. GladiatHers® is an organization dedicated to inspiring, empowering & connecting women (especially women in the sports industry). So join them and enjoy the beautiful community Cecelia and her team have built. Gents, GladiatHers® isn't just for women, it takes all of us to change the world!
Cecelia on IG
GladiatHers on IG
We are often fed the belief that we have to choose one or the other: cushy and secure 9-5 job or the thrilling yet risky ride of a full-time entrepreneur, spending your life's savings, betting it all on red. It takes courage it takes work, it might even take a little less sleep than the average Joe/Jane, but Cecelia's story is proof that you can do it too!
Have a listen, have a laugh, learn a little and have a fabulous day!
Let's go get it!
HIGHER! -- with Nikki Symmons and Tom Zamzow
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Welcome to Higher! everyone. The podcast where we help you reach higher in your career, and learn with experts in recruitment, entrepreneurship, marketing and many more about what it takes to become a leader in your dream industry.
Be sure to follow #gohigherpodcast on Instagram for a peek behind the scenes, additional resources, and to let us know your thoughts and comments for this episode!
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
46 min - Ep 5 - "How to Build an Entrepreneurial Multiverse" with Johan Franzén, Founder and CEO of Entnest
In this episode, we get to explore the wonderful world of Entnest (get it, a nest for entrepreneurs!), with its delightful founder and CEO Johan Franzén. Entnest is an online platform, that has elements of Facebook, Slack, Whatsapp, Zoom and so much more, all geared towards connecting entrepreneurs to support each others' businesses, make new connections, win clients and simply: Go HIGHER!
Entnest is an invite-only community, but Johan has given us full permission to screen and admit new members. So if you are an entrepreneur, intrapreneur, free thinker, value-giver, problem solver, or someone on their way to one of those identities: hop over to entnest.com, and sign-up for free using either one of us as your sponsor!
Johan shares his wealth of knowledge with us on the many areas of launching an entrepreneurial career that can seem so daunting when you get started. What is it like to leave a comfortable corporate job behind? What kind of skills did he bring that helped him create Entnest? Which skills was he lacking, and how did he go about finding help? Don't even get us started on start-up capital.
One of our favourite things about Entnest: the many business models Johan has married to create something unique, something inclusive, and something that can give back to the community. It is remarkable, come join us and learn, learn, learn how it's done!
Let's go get it!
HIGHER! -- with Nikki Symmons and Tom Zamzow
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Welcome to Higher! everyone. The podcast where we help you reach higher in your career, and learn with experts in recruitment, entrepreneurship, marketing and many more about what it takes to become a leader in your dream industry.
Be sure to follow #gohigherpodcast on Instagram for a peek behind the scenes, additional resources, and to let us know your thoughts and comments for this episode!
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
46 min - Ep 4 - February Special
Welcome to Higher! everyone. The podcast where we help you reach higher in your career, and learn with experts in recruitment, entrepreneurship, marketing and many more about what it takes to become a leader in your dream industry.
Be sure to follow #gohigherpodcast on Instagram for a peek behind the scenes!
On the last Tuesday of every month, we have no guest, no fuzz, no music and no filter. We simply stick our heads together to chat about what we've learnt, what we care about and who we are as the voices behind the show. Come join us and be sure to hop over to our IG post on this episode and join the conversation!
Let's go get it!
HIGHER! -- with Nikki Symmons and Tom Zamzow
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
40 min - Ep 3 - "How to Make Authenticity Your Brand" with Anja Skvortsova, Partnership Director at Audeliss
HILARITY ALERT:
- Tom has a stuffy nose, prepare for maximum nasality.
- Tom announces menacing questions for our guest in the last third of the episode and then has nothing to show for it.
- Technology is wicked at times, and you may be able to hear a feint hum on Anja's feed. Our sincerest apologies.
In this episode, we want to talk to you about your personal brand. We are joined by the scintillating Anja Skvortsova, Partnership Director at Audeliss, an executive search firm that levels the playing field for diverse leaders in executive and board appointments. Anja is also a world-class narrator, and learning from her is both an intellectual and auditory treat!
Authenticity. What is it? How do you define it for yourself and leverage it to get those jobs you've been dreaming about? And how do you maintain it in the push and pull of a job market that requires constant adaptation and leans towards uniformity? We have both struggled with this concept for years, but can now proudly present to you the very much millennial version of Nikki and Tom: our authentic selves. Have a listen, have a think, authenticity matters more than you might believe. Some nuggets of wisdom Anja is sharing in this episode:
- Companies hire more than just your skillset, they hire you for you.
- Work on your strengths, not just your weaknesses.
- Research, research, research. Your personal brand must be solid, but the way you talk about it has to matter to the context you use it in.
Let's go get it!
HIGHER! -- with Nikki Symmons and Tom Zamzow
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Welcome to Higher! everyone. The podcast where we help you reach higher in your career, and learn with experts in recruitment, entrepreneurship, marketing and many more about what it takes to become a leader in your dream industry.
Be sure to follow #gohigherpodcast on Instagram for a peek behind the scenes, additional resources, and to let us know your thoughts and comments for this episode!
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
50 min - Ep 2 - "How to Interview Like a Complete Champion" with Shona Macdonald
In this episode, we talk about the holy grail of getting a job, the interview. First of all: if you have reached this stage, congratulations! You have muscled away the competition, beaten the CV hating algorithms pre-filtering ferociously before an actual person ever lays eyes on your application. You're a star. Now bring it home. Here to show us how to do just that is Shona Macdonald, recruiter, mentor and scottish accent wonder. Shona has seen countless applicants, from career starters to Senior Vice Presidents or large corporations, through the thicket of the recruitment process, and today, exclusively on HIGHER!, has agreed to share her magics with us.
Interviewing comes easy to some, often more extroverted energy profiles, and is the stuff of nightmares for others. Yet no matter who you are and even considering that every interview situation is unique, there are things that near all recruiters listen for when they sit in front of you. As per usual, it's not what you'd expect:
- Recruiters are your friend, not your enemy. Leverage them!
- The negotiation doesn't start after the interview, it starts with the first exchange of emails. Have a plan!
- Recruiters don't look for fit, they look for what cultural contribution you can make. Be yourself!
Let's go get it!
HIGHER! -- with Nikki Symmons and Tom Zamzow
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Welcome to Higher! everyone. The podcast where we help you reach higher in your career, and learn with experts in recruitment, entrepreneurship, marketing and many more about what it takes to become a leader in your dream industry.
Be sure to follow #gohigherpodcast on Instagram for a peek behind the scenes, additional resources, and to let us know your thoughts and comments for this episode!
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
47 min - Ep 1 - "How to Be Visible on the Job Market" with Manuel Heichlinger, Director Recruiting and People EMEA at Samsara
In this episode, we are diving into the magical world of making yourself visible on the job market. We are joined by Manuel Heichlinger, Director Recruiting and People at Samsara, who is sharing his many wisdoms from his +10 year experience of hiring top talent at LinkedIn, Deloitte and HSBC and more. He is also a fantastic human being and advocate for diverse and inclusive leaders seeking to change the world.
There are myriad ways to show the world what you can do: from unlocking LinkedIn's true potential to making a CV that stands out to both recruiters and the dreaded algorithm that has crushed many a dream. And then of course there is the secret code of the job market and hidden networks of jobs that you will never see advertized but that still exist. Learn this hidden language with us and turn your job hunt from something that feels passive to and active tool in your career arsenal! Here are some teasers of what we learnt:
- The 6-second CV-screening rule is true, and it is your best friend!
- Recruiters look at your LinkedIn profile in ways you haven't imagined!
- There are ways to flip the script on recruiters and get out of the 'apply, wait and hope for the best' treadmill!
Let's go get it!
HIGHER! -- with Nikki Symmons and Tom Zamzow
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Welcome to Higher! everyone. The podcast where we help you reach higher in your career, and learn with experts in recruitment, entrepreneurship, marketing and many more about what it takes to become a leader in your dream industry.
Be sure to follow #gohigherpodcast on Instagram for a peek behind the scenes, additional resources, and to let us know your thoughts and comments for this episode!
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
48 min - Ep 0 - "Welcome to Higher! everyone"
Welcome to Higher! everyone. The podcast where we help you reach higher in your career, and learn with and from experts in recruitment, entrepreneurship, marketing and many more about what it takes to become a leader in your dream industry.
This is Episode 0, and we (Nikki Symmons and Tom Zamzow) talk of all things Higher!, what we're about, when you can expect new (and longer) episodes and are generally having a good chin wag about what makes us tick.
Let's go get it!
HIGHER! -- with Nikki Symmons and Tom Zamzow
PS: Episode 0 serves to register Higher! on all the podcast platforms, we'll get rollin' properly in February of 2021!
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
5 min
About HIGHER! Career Podcast
From the publisher's feed
Welcome to the HIGHER! Career Podcast everyone. A show full of wicked stories from the job market and brilliant guest experts showing us how to succeed in it. Because we've all been there haven't…
we? It's time to get unstuck and make our dream careers happen. Let's go get it! -- With Nikki Symmons and Tom Zamzow
This show is all about exploring ways to navigate one's career with ease and how the seemingly secret language of the job market is not one we have to each learn by ourselves through painstaking experience. Whether you are concerned about recruitment and finding a job, interviewing like a champion or getting that promotion in your current job, we are sure that we have an episode or two in our collection that can help you out.
Every episode is driven by industry experts and business leaders from a wide range of fields. Entrepreneurship, corporate and the private sector, marketing and creative agencies, the World Wide Fund For Nature, media, you name it.
Not only do you get to know these industries better in case you want to start your career in them, or do a career transition/change towards them. You also get to learn from these experts how they have navigated their own careers and became successful. Our show is less about philosophy than it is about real-world, practical ways in which you can have that dream career for yourself. There are no one-size fits all solutions, we don't believe in the kind of platitudes you will find on social media. Start your own unique engine, find your power and values and enable them to bring them to work with you and forge the dream career for yourself.
This means overcoming the 'my manager hates me' trap. This means being brave, vocal and present, even if you don't feel like or your energy profile is rather introverted than extroverted. This means learning how to say no in your job. This means leading teams and realising that you will only ever be as good as the people you manage and develop. This means gaining the presentation skills you need. This means learning when to leave a job, and how to leave a job. And then: how to either get a new job or start your own business. This means mastering social media and setting up your LinkedIn profile in a way that serves your entire career.
Nikki Symmons and Tom Zamzow created this show with two goals in mind. On the surface level, they have come to realise that all of us go through the same tough school of language learning. The language they speak of is the language of the job market and career development. It's a tough school, and it takes years to figure out how to be fluent in it. They endeavour to shorten this time period for you out there, make it easier for you to have a job, career or calling that you like and love. Which leads us to the second goal:
Nikki and Tom want you to step up as leaders, and they want you to do it now. You see, they believe in careers as part of life, not just a 9-5 that you have to do. They believe in careers that can have a positive impact on the world. They believe in everyone finding their values, what they believe in, feel passionate about, and are willing to fight for. More than ever before, ordinary folk like us have the power to make real change happen. And not just in our personal lives. Showing up at work as a vocal advocate for one's values bears the potential to change companies from within. And in turn have companies invest their substantial resources to become better corporate citizens and make the world a better place. Nikki and Tom frequently talk about diversity, equity and inclusion, bring as many diverse guests as possible, and show their audience how careers in environmental sustainability can be incredibly exciting.
Why listen to Nikki and Tom? Because they have changed their own careers more frequently than you can count to do just what they are advocating for on this show: do not feel trapped in your job. Our values, motivations and reasons to get up in the morning change over time. And retaining the flexibility of mind, heart, CV (how to write a CV), motivation letter and skillset to brave these exciting changes effortlessly.
So have a listen, have a laugh, learn a little and let's go get it!
Nikki and Tom