Valerie Woerner is an accomplished CEO/ President/ CFO, as well as an experienced and influential Board member, for family and corporate Boards of Directors. Her authentic and collaborative leadership experience in manufacturing consumer facing products began in banking where she developed a strong finance foundation. High growth business building roles, startups, and turnaround success are among her skills. She is a qualified financial expert with marketing, HR, M&A and board expertise, and public speaker, who consistently creates and delivers value. By request, Valerie has taught Finance, Entrepreneurship and other business and HR courses including Compensation at two universities.
In this episode, Valerie shares several helpful job transition tips including:
· Networking is critical to your job change success – and it does not have to be a stressful activity. “Never Eat Alone” is a great book to help you be more effective in your networking.
· To help you do better on your phone or ZOOM interview, make sure you do your research on the company and people you will be working with.
· Create your job-hunting plan, help others along the way, exercise and remember – you need to be happy with the job too, not just the company being happy with you.
· Be a lifelong learner – read, take courses, and learn new skills.
This is a high impact episode that you will want to listen to a couple of times to get all the key points from it. Enjoy, give me your comments, and share it with others.