Happen to Your Career

There’s never an ideal time to get laid off or completely change your career, but a professional setback might actually lead to a far better opportunity you’ve never considered before. Melissa Shapiro was already contemplating a career change, but then was laid off before she could position herself for the next move. She discovered that evolving and adapting weren’t only important for success – it was absolutely necessary to move up in the professional world.  

This might come as a bit of a shocker, but we don’t always post our job openings for our company. [Gasp] “I thought you were in HR for years, Scott. How could you?” I was. I worked in many different companies and sectors. Government, Manufacturing, Fortune 500. I’ve been on all sides of the table too. When a hiring manager has a need, they usually are doing their best to make sure they’ve got someone in mind already.

Let me ask you a question: When do you have the most power to negotiate? Out of all the possible times, the very best time to negotiate your pay, job, terms or anything else is when you’re making a career change to a new company and new job. Specifically right after they’ve made you an offer. Why is that?

Do you feel like you’re leaving your family behind while you try to gain success in your career? Or maybe you feel stuck in your career because you’re trying to be there for your family? Or maybe you feel like you can’t do either one well, but can’t find a way out? Mike also felt that way. But he found a few things that allowed him to create his dream career and spend quality time with his family. Today, he shares these secrets that are often overlooked.

Have you wondered how you can move from being a good job candidate to being a great candidate? Have you identified your big “value-adds” from your past job experiences and how you can apply them to any industry? Have you wondered how to open more doors of opportunity during informational interviews?

How to Find Time for a Career Change

What do you think is the secret to why high performers get help so easily (and we enjoy helping them) and why it’s so painful to have to help many other people? Is it that they are genetically endowed with likeability, or that we’re just biased as human beings to want to help people who are already doing well? Maybe, but I don’t think so.

What if you get rejected from what you thought was going to be your purpose? What if the work you thought would be meaningful isn’t? When you get rejected from that - even just one rejection - you start to really question all of your skill sets and the journey that you've been on.  If that’s you - you’re going to learn how to turn an end into a beginning of what’s next in your life.

When thinking about meaningful work and the various pieces that need to come together, it might cause you to wonder, “Are these even possible together, and, if so, how do real people actually find these opportunities?” With the help of science and some real people who have done a great job finding meaningful work and career happiness, we’re going to break down the answers for you.

We are announcing several things that are going on right now with HTYC! Listen to this special (limited time) episode!

Organizations that focus on employee experiences create more profit. Employees want more meaningful work and work experiences and are willing to take less pay for it? So why haven’t companies really started paying attention to this? Or are some organizations beginning to wake up and realize that more and more of the workforce is wanting more meaningful work?

There’s so much conflicting information out there about what creates more fulfilling, more desirable work:  Is it the job?  Is it the company?  Is it the type of role or occupation? Is meaningful work really even obtainable in the first place?  The short answer is “yes,” but in reality it happens differently than what most of the world thinks it does.

Disappearing Episode: We're Hiring

This is a special episode. This is episode 300! We are bringing on a bunch of people today to give you a behind-the-scenes look at several aspects of the HTYC podcast. We’ll hear from several members of the HTYC team, we also have several surprise guests, all sharing a bit of how we all met Scott and how HTYC has helped us. We’ll also have some of the best tips if you feel stuck in your career. And we’re going to have a little fun at the same time (because that's what we do).

Many of us get exhausted. Maybe it’s because of a lack of sleep. Maybe it’s from working too much or too hard. Maybe it’s from stress. But being exhausted doesn’t mean that it has to be a negative in your life. Laura Morrison was used to be exhausted, but now it feels different. “So, I still leave work exhausted. It's just that now the exhaustion is from kind of flexing my brain and personal development and kind of much more excitement about the work that I'm doing and being invested in i