Your Career Cure

Have you ever asked yourself what makes a great recruiter? The one that focuses on hiring the right candidate for the right job and giving the employer the best candidate. A recruiter who is focused on eliminating hiring biases in the hiring process and values integrity, equity, diversity, & inclusion at the workplace.

In this episode of the Your Career Cure Podcast, Gail Tolstoi-Miller interviews Katherine McCord of Titan Management.  She is the President of Titan Management- an innovative national recruiting firm, and the Host of Career Launch Live- a podcast designed to educate on all things professional. She has strong experience recruiting everything from Customer Service to CFOs and has a background in process improvement and growing employee satisfaction. She has a passion for improving the hiring process for companies and candidates alike and founded Titan in 2014.

She describes her love for recruiting, which stems from childhood, and explains how and why she’s building a non-bias recruiting system. Listen in to learn the importance of focusing on the right things like skills and capability when hiring as a recruiter.

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What You Will Discover:

• [0:23] Katherine’s love for her company Titan Management, plus what they do in recruiting.
• [2:02] How Katherine fell in love with recruiting after years of being a job hopper.
• [4:50] Why you don’t necessarily need experience to do a job, just the chance to do it.
• [8:42] How to stop focusing on the wrong things when hiring as a recruiter.
• [14:43] A recruiting system Katherine is building that focuses on a candidate’s skills and abilities without bias.
• [17:06] The value of integrity, equity, diversity, and inclusion when hiring.
• [24:45] The importance of treating all candidates as human, not products.
• [27:13] The importance of networking and networking with recruiters to help you get out there.
• [32:07] Katherine describes her lowest career moment as when she fired an employee due to the lack of enough resources.
• [36:37] How people have shifted the expectations from their employers after COVID-19.
• [42:40] The 3 best career and Corporate America answers that Katherine would give to win the 50 million dollars Your Career Cure Contest.

Get in Touch with Katherine:

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CareerLaunch2020
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherine-mccord-093bb343
• Product Promotion: titanats.com
• Personal Habit: I obsessively calendar.
• Favorite Resource: Google, Not Kidding, and LinkedIn Live
• Favorite Book: I don't read business books.

Have Career Anxiety?  Is your boss or work giving you anxiety and  stress?  Are you unemployed and stressing out finding a new job?  In this episode of Your Career Cure, Gail Tolstoi-Miller provides you many ways to deal and dissolve your anxiety with several techniques.  In addition, she provides guidance on how you view your career and will never see it the same way again.  She helps you  gain your power back.

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When do you suppose to be the right age to start your career? Is it when or how you start your career that matters in the journey? Sometimes you know very early the career path you want to follow, but life diverts your focus to other things before you find your way back.

In this episode of the Your Career Cure Podcast, Gail Tolstoi-Miller speaks with Gav Gillibrand. He’s a fitness & nutrition expert who specializes in helping busy men and women lose 20lbs or more in 12 weeks or less without cutting out carbs & other fun stuff from their lives.

From a TV appearance on “Blind Date” in 1993 to a distinguished career as a male revue artist AKA male stripper, traveling all over the UK & Europe, Gav went on to become of the UK’s most successful online fitness coaches having helped 100’s of clients in the last 15 years to health and weight loss success.

Gav shares some of his highs, lows, and the life lessons he learned from his 17-year career as a male stripper.

He explains in detail the caloric deficit concept and why it is the single most effective way of losing weight in both men and women. Listen in to learn the importance of allowing your staff some exercise time to boost their productivity in the office.

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What You Will Discover:

• [0:22] Gav narrates stories of his interest in sports and fitness since his teenage years.
• [7:30] The only time you should embellish the truth to get the job.
• [8:53] The life and experiences of a male stripper plus the lessons from the industry.
• [17:05] The interesting perspective of the stripping world and its differences with the real world for both men and women.
• [20:03] How the pandemic period became the best and worst for some people in the health and fitness sector.
• [28:04] Debunking the caloric deficit concept- why you can still lose weight even with your junk food diet.
• [36:37] The importance of strength training to maintain muscle mass and burn fat as you get older.
• [39:55] Understanding the mechanics of losing fat and the benefits of controlling your caloric intake.
• [44:14] Gav explains how he focuses his clients on the end goal of why they want to lose weight.
• [51:39] How to lose weight eating whatever you want plus finding exercises that you enjoy.
• [57:32] The mental, physical, and productivity benefits of exercising for office workers.
• [1:02:05] Why you should cut off alcohol and instead adopt a healthy diet for both your physical and mental health.
• [1:06:03] He describes his worst career moment and how perseverance led to his best year yet.
• [1:11:01] The 3 best career and Corporate America answers that Gav would give to win the 50 million dollars Your Career Cure Contest.

Gav’s Social Media Info:

• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVJZDxL-998b41x9qJ4NQvg
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gav-gillibrand/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gavin.gillibrand/
• Website https://gavgillibrand.com
• Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-health-fitness-lifestyle-show/id1446778964
• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/gav.gillibrand/
• My Book – The GHG Method - https://www.theghgmethod.com
• Success habit – getting up at 5 am every day and working on my number task for the day. That and not watching the news or reading the newspapers.
• Big fan of Tony Robbins but I also use YouTube a lot for information & inspiration
• “Atomic Habits” – James Clear. “Why we sleep” – Matthew Walker. “A New Earth” – Eckhart Tolle

Over 40 & looking for a new position?  Ageism in Corporate America is very real especially during the hiring process. On this solo episode of Your Career Cure, Gail Tolstoi-Miller unveils the curtain on unconscious bias & ageism & provides quick tips on how to combat common stereotypes for candidates over 40.  This will be a game changer for any candidate over 40.

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What are the chances that your resume will get you a job? A winning resume is more than just a two-page document listing your skills, more than a keyword-stuffed document to pass through the AI system. Sometimes, it might actually work in your favor to get a professional to do your resume.

In this episode of the Your Career Cure Podcast, Gail Tolstoi-Miller speaks with Matthew Warzel, CPRW. He’s a resume writer, career coach, and outplacement expert with over 10 years in Human Resources and career advancement techniques. He manages MJW Careers and provides assistance to companies in transition from downsizes to buyouts, as well as individual job seekers needing to advance their careers. Matt has a long history working in Human Resources and on recruitment/staffing teams across a variety of industries. He fashions resumes that allow employers to review the applicant's assets while highlighting his or her accomplishments, showcasing impacts on employer's bottom lines using quantitative verbiage, and maintaining brevity.

Matt believes in the benefits of getting your resume professionally written to help get you closer to your dream job’s door.

He shares tips on how to create a winning and valuable resume, mistakes to avoid, and how to pass the AI system. Listen in to learn the power of a creative and interesting cover letter that has higher chances of getting you that interview.

“Try not to take on too many projects at once; finish something before you start project seven.”

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What You Will Discover:

• [0:50] Matt explains how he helps job hunters with marketing tools to find their next career move.
• [1:44] Why he transitioned from recruiting to owning his business and never wants to go back.
• [4:19] Three tips on how to create a winning resume plus the benefits of getting a professional to do your resume.
• [7:41] Tips on how to pass the AI system and other stages in the interview process.
• [9:44] Two resume mistakes you’re probably making without realizing.
• [12:46] How to be smart to boost your job candidacy and be more likely to get the job.
• [15:48] How not to write irrelevant things on your resume just to make it longer.
• [20:27] The importance of establishing good working relationships wherever you work.
• [24:30] How to create a customized and tailored cover letter for specific job roles.
• [29:55] How to pitch a job on LinkedIn through video or audio and let your resume be an enhancement.
• [33:50] Matt describes when he lost his job in 2009 as his lowest career moment when he had to deal with his worst anxiety attacks yet.
• [35:17] The things you can do to nourish your mind, body, and spirit before thinking of your career.
• [41:28] Don’t worry about what you can’t control during the pandemic, improve your resume and yourself every day.
• [44:02] The 3 best career and Corporate America answers that Matt would give to win the 50 million dollars Your Career Cure Contest.

Matt’s Social Media Information, Promotions, Books:

• Website – jobstickers.com
• Book - How to Get UnUnEmployed: Fill That Calendar!: 22 Daily Step-By-Step Ways and Daily Motivators to Kickstart Your Career and Find a Job in Under 6 Weeks
• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mjwcareers/
• Twitter - @mjwcareers
• Instagram - @mjwcareers
• Facebook - facebook.com/mjwcareers
• YouTube - youtube.com/mjwcareers
• Share one of your personal habits that contributes to your success: Jogging and working out, keeps me sane LOL
• Share your favorite Internet/Career/entrepreneur resource - HelpAReporter.com to get in the media mix
• What is your favorite book that you would recommend? 1-2-3 Parenting, it's helped me with raising my son, who's about to turn 3

In this Thursday solo Episode of Your Career Cure, Gail Tolstoi-Miller shares the #1 mistake candidates make when answering, Why did you leave the job?  Gail provides the most common mistake that potentially puts the candidate in the no pile.  Also, Gail provides the best solution to answering the question so you nail the interview.

Gail will provide Solo 5 minute Your Career Cure episodes every Thursday.  If you have a career question or challenge, please email her and she will do her best to answer your question on Your Career Cure Thursday edition.

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How do you improve from a good English speaker to a great English speaker? You might think that because you’re a native English speaker, you don’t need to be any better, but maybe you do need some improvements in a professional setting. But how do you do this?

That is why in this episode of the Your Career Cure Podcast, Gail Tolstoi-Miller interviews communication coach, Jill Diamond. She is a seasoned communication coach with a specialization in working with international professionals. Her executive experience, background in the performance arts, and a keen interest in people allow Jill to help professionals Write it, Show it and Voice it with precision, passion, and impact.

She explains how she helps people become great at spoken English as they are in written English without losing traces of their native languages or accents. Listen in to learn how better communication at work can surprisingly help you in moving up the ranks.

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What You Will Discover:

• [0:40] Jill explains how she helps international professionals go from good English speakers to great English speakers.
• [2:54] How Jill became passionate about teaching communication after a career in acting and music.
• [6:27] Understanding code-switching, which is the ability to switch from one accent to another.
• [9:10] Why people don’t trust people with a different accent as theirs, plus some languages with difficult accents.
• [12:46] Jill narrates a success story that happened with a former client.
• [15:49] Teaching people how to speak the way they write.
• [17:04] Up talk- the rising intonation at the end of a sentence and why it creates doubts in others.
• [21:26] The importance of having passion in our native language or any other language we’re speaking.
• [25:37] Why Jill believes that it’s easier for non-Americans to catch up to our accent than the other way around.
• [28:14] She narrates the poem that helps her students get started with rhythm.
• [29:28] Jill describes her career challenges as having to keep up with the times and everything.
• [30:28] How COVID has simplified Jill’s lifestyle by making it easy to communicate with her clients online.
• [31:47] The 3 best career and Corporate America answers that Jill would give to win the 50 million dollars Your Career Cure Contest.

Get in Touch with Jill:

• Jill’s online program landing page: https://jill-diamond-be8f.mykajabi.com/find-your-stage-with-english-communication-confidence
• Website: byjilldiamond.com
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/JillDiamond
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jilldiamond/
• Share one of your personal habits that contributes to your success: I’m not afraid to ask for help when I need it. It could be hiring a coach or speaking to a peer or simply searching the internet for the help I need. In other words, I’m in the habit of believing that I am not in it alone.
• Share your favorite Internet/Career/entrepreneur resource: I’ve turned to Tony Robbins’ work on and off over the years. Marie Forleo's course is great for entrepreneurs—especially if you are starting out. And I turn to LinkedIn groups in my field like Training & Development—there is great resource material and studies that these groups can provide.
• What is your favorite book that you would recommend? I love The Dip by Seth Godin because it shows us that quitting isn’t always about giving up. It is about redirecting ourselves towards our strengths and our passions

Are you afraid of being vulnerable and sharing at work? Would you like to show up more authentically and help your team do so too? How about embracing the play mindset to grow instead of being depressed, especially during the pandemic?

In this episode of the Your Career Cure Podcast, Gail Tolstoi-Miller interviews Jeff Harry of Rediscover Play. Jeff shows individuals and companies how to tap into their true selves, to feel their happiest and most fulfilled — all by playing. He has worked with Google, Microsoft, Southwest Airlines, Adobe, the NFL, Amazon, and Facebook, helping their staff to infuse more play into the day-to-day.

Jeff is also an international speaker who has presented at conferences such as INBOUND, SXSW, and Australia’s Pausefest, showing audiences how major issues in the workplace can be solved using play. Jeff was selected by BambooHR & Engagedly as one of the Top 100 HR Influencers of 2020 for his organizational development work around dealing with toxic people in the workplace. His play work has most recently been featured in the NY Times article: How Do We Add More Play to Our Grown-Up Life - Even Now. He has also been featured on AJ+, SoulPancake, the SF Chronicle, and CNN.

Jeff believes that we already have many of the answers we seek, and by simply unleashing our inner child, we can find our purpose and, in turn, help to create a better world.

He describes how you can allow your team time to solve problems experimentally and playfully way without judging and shaming them. Listen in to learn the power of following your inner curiosity to discover the adventure on the other side of the fear without holding you back.

“Don’t think of the best-case scenario and the worst-case scenario, think of the most likely scenario.”

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What You Will Discover:

• [0:53] Jeff describes his childhood fascination with toys and background with play at work.
• [7:08] How to have real conversations to build trust and show up more fully to work through play.
• [11:50] Defining the play mindset as the growth mindset and the opposite as perfection and depression.
• [15:01] The importance of adapting to the play-oriented mindset not to be left behind.
• [19:30] Jeff explains two examples of how he conducts play with teams to deal with workplace toxicity.
• [25:42] Facts about the 8-hour workday and how to reduce useless activities of a workday.
• [28:10] The playful steps you can take as a job candidate to help you stand out in the market.
• [31:12] Jeff describes his lowest career moment as when he compromised himself in a corporate job.
• [34:17] Learn to follow your curiosity and have the courage to live the life you want.
• [39:44] How to create a psychologically safe environment as a team leader for staff to connect during the pandemic.
• [44:26] Figure out what makes you most alive and do it to become self-motivated.
• [50:07] The power of exploring your ‘lottery card’ and showing up.
• [52:23] The 3 best career and Corporate America answers that Jeff would give to win the 50 million dollars Your Career Cure Contest.

Get in Touch with Jeff:

• Website: https://www.rediscoveryourplay.com/
• Instagram: @jeffharryplays
• Twitter: @jeffharryplays
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-harry-6991a94/
• Medium: @jeffharryplays
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/jchuche
• TikTok: @jeffharryplay

RESOURCES TO INSPIRE YOU TO PLAY MORE:

• How to Stop Wasting Time Scrolling and Start Finding Joy in Play - Mashable
• How Do You Add Play to Grown-Up Life - Even Now - NY Times
• Forget Resolutions...Try the Fun, Joy, Play Index
• A Play Experiment to Remind You Who You Are - Medium

Have you been thinking of turning your side hustle into your full-time hustle? I believe you’re no stranger to the world- and know exactly how 2020 gave it to us good! It taught us that now is the time to get serious with those side hustles. But how do you do that?

That’s why in this episode of the Your Career Cure Podcast, Gail Tolstoi-Miller has John Lee Dumas of the Entrepreneurs on Fire as a guest. John is the founder and host of the award-winning podcast, Entrepreneurs on Fire which has over 100 million listens of his 3000+ episodes. He turned Entrepreneurs on Fire into a media empire that generates over a million listens every month and 7-figures of NET annual revenue 8-years in a row.

John shares his journey to entrepreneurship and touches on the career frustrations of a veteran. Listen in to learn the importance of financial freedom, lifestyle freedom, and a location-independence business as taught by COVID-19.

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What You Will Discover: 

• [1:00] John shares his journey from PTSD and depression to a multimillion-dollar media empire.
• [5:10] How to win by niching down enough to destroy your competition immediately.
• [8:52] How misconstrued truths from the military lead to career frustrations afterward.
• [11:39] Practical advice to go from an okay podcaster to a great podcaster.
• [15:17] Nuggets from Tim Ferris’ The 4-Hour Workweek- Create tools, systems, and automation to get your 40-hour work done in 4 hours so you can work on your business, not in it.
• [17:06] John describes his lowest career moment as when he quit law school.
• [19:17] Lessons from COVID- the power of having control of your life and business.
• [23:48] The 3 best career and Corporate America answers that John would give to win the 50 million dollars Your Career Cure Contest
• [25:09] The 17-step revolutionary roadmap to your financial and fulfilments- John’s upcoming book.

Get in Touch with John:

• Website: https://www.EOFire.com/
• Instagram: @ johnleedumas
• Preorder: The Common Path to Uncommon Success Now and Get 5 Amazing Bonuses

Share one of your personal habits that contributes to your success. - Daily Infrared Sauna

Share your favorite Internet/Career/entrepreneur resource - Boomerang Gmail

What is your favorite book that you would recommend? - The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson

Sedef Onder discusses how integrity and honesty in the workplace has long term gain and help her build a 7 figure company.  We discuss strategies on how to be honest in tough situations in corporate America.  This podcast was recorded before Harvey Weinstein was exposed.  We do discuss the fear of coming forward regarding sexual harassment and how corporate culture affects how HR/human resources reacts.  Great and refreshing Career Car Confessions episode