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My guest today is LinkedIn Top Voice Mita Mallick. Mita has headed consumer brands at places like Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer and Unilever. The following excerpt from her linkedin bio brings us to what Mita is doing today:

“As a kid, I loved watching commercials instead of actual tv shows (still do!) and going to the store with my mom, studying all the new packaging and products on shelf, testing and trying new things. But as a kid, I didn’t see many stories being told that included people who looked like me. I was the funny looking dark skinned girl, with a long funny looking braid, whose parents spoke funny English. Until it wasn't funny anymore. I was bullied by my peers for years. And I just desperately wanted to fit in. I wanted to belong.
 
 I have spent over 15 years as a storyteller. Leading iconic brands like AVEENO, AVON Color Cosmetics, Chapstick, Vaseline, Suave and Dove. Throughout my career, I have fought hard to ensure people like me are included. Ensuring Black and Brown people were represented in campaigns. Ensuring products we created were for all skin tones. Ensuring we were not reinforcing stereotypes.
 I believe diversity of thought doesn’t happen without diversity of representation. When you have all those points of views, life experiences, and cultural backgrounds coming together around a table. Colliding, clashing, and collaborating- that’s when magic happens. That’s when we come up with that one break through innovative idea, campaign, innovation- to authentically and purposefully serve customers and communities.”

In this conversation, Mita and I chat about how she got hired at her dream companies Johnson & Johnson and Unilever and how she transitioned to the DEIB space. We also talk about what it means on a day to day basis work in this space, and how we can all become allies.

If you enjoy honesty and clarity on a difficult subject, you will LOVE this conversation!

Follow Mita on LinkedIn here.
Listen to her podcast Brown Table Talk with Dee Cee Marshall here.
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Today I’m fortunate to have Jon Hyman on the show. Jon is an Employment Lawyer and in essence, the voice on the other end of a phone when a business needs advice on firing an employee, a policy or agreement drafted, guidance on a leave of absence, disability accommodation, or internal complaint or investigation, or any others issue that plague human resources professionals and businesses daily. And when the need arises, Jon works in litigation and has likely seen all sorts of appalling behaviour by both employers and employees, both of which shall not be named!

Jon is one of my favourite people to follow on LinkedIn, for multiple reasons:

1. His posts often have tongue in cheek humour about the most grueling workplace issues
2. and no matter what, Jon is always honest
3. It’s rare to see lawyers speak up so candidly on social media. 
4. Jon wears multiple hats, and among other things, he is now a podcaster!

So, get ready to ‘witness’ a conversation where we ‘raise the bar’!

In this fun conversation, Jon and I cover:

- how legal dramas on TV compare to working in a law firm in real life

- what were some of Jon's career defining roles and how he got hired there

- how a random call Jon accidentally answered changed the trajectory of his career

- Why Jon decided to work on the employer side, and not on the employee: Jon shares his decision making process, which I think can help you if you are at a similar crossroad

- The most facepalm moment (there have been many!) Jon has witnessed in his legal career.

If you're looking for a fun, thought provoking conversation and learn life lessons directly from an employment lawyer, this is an episode you cannot miss!

Follow Jon:

On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanhyman/
Jon's blog: https://www.ohioemployerlawblog.com/
The blog article we talked about during the show
Jon's podcast with his daughter Norah: https://norahanddadshow.buzzsprout.com/

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Join me as I chat with Sadhguru during the Brussels leg of his European tour to campaign for saving soil. Sadhguru is on a journey to meet citizens, leaders and experts as a lone motorcyclist covering 30,000 km across 25 nations from the United Kingdom to India in 100 days.

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Follow Sadhguru and his journey on: SaveSoil.org and #SaveSoil everywhere!

00:00 Intro
01:30 What is a Career
04:11 How to develop confidence to make bold career moves
05:47 Farming as a Career
07:29 Advice to help during the pandemic period
12:04 What supercharged your mission?
13:07 Conclusion

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Today I am speaking with Elizebeth Varghese, who heads Talent and HR Strategy Transformation at IBM, with solutions in Blockchain, Robotics and AI.   
 In fact, Elizebeth has just released her new bestseller [Block] Chain Reaction and we’re going to go into this, because frankly, all this blockchain, AI talk evokes such an air of mystery! 

 We also talk about the following:

 - What are some emerging job opportunities that Elizebeth sees coming up that are only going grow further

 - Elizebeth's favourite advice and resources to enable someone who wants to make a lateral move to tech roles, from Finance/HR/Marketing etc. 

 - As a global business leader and people & technology strategist, what it is Elizebeth looks for when hiring for key roles

 Join me on this journey with Elizebeth on how she moved from AON Hewitt, E&Y to IBM, from Mumbai to New York. If you’re curious about the role of tech in the world of jobs and the future of work, this is an episode that cannot be missed.

Follow Elizebeth on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizebethvarghese/

The books we mentioned: 

[Block]Chain Reaction: The Future of How We Live and Work: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737200058/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_9E8VFJJ80T5V1RMF6YJE

Significant Women: Leaders Reveal What Matters Most:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0942FDRZC/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_9S0TY0RRYTBKPBCGZEG0

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Today’s episode is extra special because the guest is a friend of mine. Now, whether you are looking for a job, or thinking of starting a side hustle, or anywhere in the middle, you are in the right place! 

Virginia Franco is one of the best Resume Writers in the US, and who doesn’t need to learn great resume writing tips? But wait, there’s more! Virginia is so successful, that she takes the full summer off, so for anyone who wants to learn how she got to that stage and how you can to, tune in!

In this episode, Virginia talks about how she went from careers in Journalism, to Social Work, to writing resumes and everything in between. 

We also talk about Virginia's favourite tips for starting a side hustle and her current side hustle as part of the world's first marketplace for job seekers: Job Search Journey, a female founded start up.

And of course, I quiz Virginia on her battle tested tips to write a standout resume.

Don't miss this episode!

Follow Virginia on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/virginiafrancoresumewriter/
Virginia's website: https://virginiafrancoresumes.com/
Job Search Journey: https://www.jobsearchjourney.com/

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My guest today is Amy Schultz, who heads Recruiting over on Canva, the hugely successful graphic design platform that every creator knows and loves. Amy has also previously worked in senior roles at LinkedIn and Hudson, and lived in China, Singapore, San Francisco and now Sydney, Australia. 

In this episode, Amy and I chat about how her career has evolved and enabled so many geographical and industry moves and the top traits she always looks for, when recruiting senior professionals.

Among other things, we cover the following:

- How Amy got hired by LinkedIn and made the move to Singapore and San Francisco? This question is about external recruitment as well as internal recruitment (in the various moves within LinkedIn). Amy shares with us what helped her to stand out and get noticed for these coveted positions.

- The detailed recruitment process at Canva and what helped her get hired there, and what are some of the top traits Amy and her team look for when hiring for key positions.

-  Amy's own onboarding journey at Canva where she started smack in the middle of Covid, in Dec 2020, and her favourite tips to help others to on board as smoothly as possible, in the absence of in-person orientation. 

Follow Amy on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/schultzamy/

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My guest today Andrea Rainsford calls herself The SEO Angel. And today we are going to talk about her career in two parts. I’d like you to listen to the following excerpt:

“18 years ago I was thriving, I was growing. I was climbing the ladder. Life was so so good. Great job, getting married, flying round the globe with work. It was cut short. My life path had other plans. I was out of action for 11 years. My business is 8 years old this year. It’s successful, I’m helping, guiding and advising amazing businesses. We’ve won 3 awards my business and I.”

Today we’re going to learn about Andrea pre and post 2003 and if you’re in any sort of challenge today: emotional, mental or physical, I’m sure you’re going to walk away with dollops of inspiration and renewed grit, learning from our own resident angel.

 In this conversation, Andrea talks about how:

- She got hired in Ernst & Young and what it was like to be a senior female leader in the 1990’s.

- Andrea also shares how, at the peak of her consulting career, she got diagnosed out of the blue for ME, (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, also called chronic fatigue syndrome) and suffered a major stroke that rendered her bed-ridden for 8 years.

 - Andrea went back to University to complete a Bachelor’s in Computing Science in her late thirties in a wheelchair

 - Career reinvention, my favourite topic! We talk about how Andrea started working in SEO and the unforgettable way she got her first paid client

 - SEO for Dummies. Yes, Andrea breaks SEO down so anyone today, no matter the background, can apply SEO principles in their own career

Here's a LinkedIn post on Andrea's graduation:

Follow Andrea on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-rainsford-seo-angel/
Andrea's website:
https://www.seoangel.co.uk/
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What was it like to work with Jeff Bezos and his founder team as he was scaling up Amazon in the early 2000’s? 

What was it like to work at Google while it was rising from the third most dominant search engine to number one?

My guest today is Ann Hiatt, who is likely the only person on my podcast who has intimately worked with founders and CEOs of three companies we know so well today, back when they were in the high growth phase: 

Jeff Bezos at Amazon, 

Marissa Meyer (former CEO at Yahoo, back when she was heading Products at Google) and 

Eric Schmidt, former CEO and Chairman of Google. 

 But wait, there’s more! 

 Ann is not just another Silicon Valley success story. Because when you think of Silicon Valley, you think of engineers. Ann studied … well, NOT engineering! International Studies, at the Bachelor and PhD level! 

 In this super interesting conversation, Ann goes into detail about the various steps it took to get hired at Amazon, Google and how she eventually created the ‘Chief of Staff’ role for herself working closely with Eric Schmidt.

 There is so much gold here, simply put, this this is an unmissable conversation.

Ann's HBR article is here.
Follow Ann on Social Media:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ann-hiatt/
https://twitter.com/AnnRHiatt
https://www.instagram.com/annhiatt/
https://betonyourselfbook.com/
https://annhiatt.co/

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No matter your profession, chances are you watch the news on your TV, laptop or phone. But what about the person sharing the news story? What’s their story? How do they get so confident to speak in front of millions of people on national television, night after night? 

My guest today is Isabelle Kumar, who has been a news anchor and producer at places like CNN, Reuters and EuroNews. We have so much to learn from Isabelle, who has interviewed global leaders including the heads of state of Russia, Iran, Colombia, Brazil, Jordan, to sports icons like Mike Tyson, fashion icons like JP Gautier, Karl Lagerfeld and so many more.

In this conversation, Isabelle shares the unlikely fashion she landed an internship at CNN and how it changed the entire trajectory of her career, and how she worked her way from producing the news to becoming a news anchor. She also shares two of her most memorable high profile interviews, and trust me, you don’t want to miss this!

Follow Isabelle on social media:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/isabelle-kumar-50895522/
https://twitter.com/Isabelle_kumar

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Today’s episode is part of my series ‘Where are they now’ to check up on how some of my past guests are getting on and how sometimes the best laid plans can go differently.

And today I am speaking with Dan Reed on the concept of boomerang employees. This is not just a concept, but personal too. Very personal.

Dan was a guest on the show back in August 2021 on episode 46 titled ‘Networking Secrets from the Career Dad’ and we had chatted a week or so after he started at Adobe, his dream company. 

Then in Jan 2022, Dan made the surprise announcement on LinkedIn that he was going back to his former employer Barclays Bank. 

Why would he do that? And how did he go back? How was the journey? Dan reveals it ALL, he literally holds nothing back.  We talk about things that a lot of us hesitate to talk about: shame, embarrassment, depression, mental health, consequent weight gain, therapy, pride.

Hope you take away some key lessons you can apply to your own career!

Follow Dan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danreed86/
The Career Dad Podcast: https://www.careerdad.co.uk/podcast/

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