Happen to Your Career

When you’re faced with hard decisions like “should I take this other job” or “How do I know if this company is worth my time” or “is this type of role really going to make me happy, how do you really know? Our HTYC career coach Caroline Adams helps us break down exactly how to know. To get started go to http://happentoyourcareer.com

It’s super confusing how to become a consultant. There’s not a clear path at all, but it’s something that’s very desirable to do if you are looking for flexibility, autonomy, high pay, and have a desire to add immense value to organizations.

What if you’re a creative thinker who’s in a role that doesn’t allow you to use all that creativity? I would say “square peg, round hole” but usually it’s more “well rounded” people that function in a “square” environment. They can fit in, they just don’t want to have to. We’ve learned that many people don’t even really believe it’s possible when they show up on our digital doorstep.

According to our guest (and coiner of the term), Emilie Wapnick, a multipotentialite is a person that doesn’t have “one true calling the way that specialists do.” A person with Multipotentiality “thrives on learning, exploring, and mastering new skills.” As innovators and problem solvers, the multi-passionate have the need to discover anything and everything to satisfy their curiosity.

Nobody ever achieves much by staying in their comfort zone. WHY? Well, achieving goals requires you to aim for something just a little bit out of your reach. When it comes to career change, more likely than not you’ll be faced with the choice to break out of your comfort zone to progress down a new path that may be full of unknowns.

Starting the career search process can be intimidating, especially since the first thing any job search website asks for is WHAT? Like you’re supposed to know what job title you want in the first place? When you don’t know what career path you want to take, the process is not only hard to get started, it can be paralyzing when you don’t have all of the answers. Many people feel stuck and unsure of what to do first. But, there’s a way to get unstuck.

This is our first podcast episode ever where we share the story of our Career Change Bootcamp graduate, Margaret Fredrickson, alongside her career coach. Margaret gives us her first-hand experience of how coaching helped her overcome her own fears and doubts about finding her dream job--and lets us in on why vulnerability is the biggest job search hack out there.

Interviewing can be a scary experience, because we feel like we have to fit into a certain box. But, what if I told you there are a few simple ways to be yourself in an interview, and actually land the job? On this podcast episode, I will be speaking with Evangelia LeClaire, one of our top-notch career coaches here at HTYC about this exact topic. And together we will spell out exactly how to effectively prepare for an interview so that you can be your most authentic self.

We are constantly told that life is about the journey, not the destination. But, what if our so-called “journey” doesn’t have any purpose? During this podcast episode, Scott will speak with Career Change Bootcamp graduate, Kelly, who will take us through her journey to finding a purpose in life. And, once she found it--everything else seemed to fall into place.

Do you feel like you’re living your life in fear of what you could actually accomplish if you tried? On this podcast episode, we’ll be sharing 4 essential steps on how to stop living your life in fear--and finally how to give yourself permission to live the life you actually want.

What if I told you that the number 1 way to land your dream job is having confidence? Would you feel like you’re on the path to getting there...or just stuck? Well, if your answer is “just stuck”--you’re not alone. In our latest podcast episode Laura, one of our stellar Career Change Bootcamp Graduates tells us how it took her nearly 3 years to leave a job she wasn’t passionate about because she felt the same way. Tune in to hear how she went from disengaged to confident--and so can you!

How to Live Authentically in Your Career

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. 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! It takes completely reframing your future to be able to achieve a paradigm shifting change.

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. 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.

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. So how do they do it? It’s through something far easier: introductions. THE MOST POWERFUL RELATIONSHIP BUILDING HACK YOU ALREADY HAVE IN YOUR TOOLBOX