Happen To Your Career - Meaningful Work, Career Change, Career Design, & Job Search

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. Just thinking about a career change causes stress, anxiety, frustration, and fear to rise inside many people because the majority feel stuck and unsure of what to do first. But, there's a way to get unstuck. You have to be willing to change your mindset and approach your career change differently than you have before. If you're willing to do that, all you need now it to make the time and energy to get you through the journey. Below, we've outlined tips from Kathryn Minshew, CEO and Co-Founder of The Muse, a career discovery platform that "puts the human at the center" and helps over 50+ million people a year in their career search. Now, pull out a notebook and let's get you started down the right path to get you unstuck and find your new career path.

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.

Maybe you really enjoyed your job when you started…years ago. But now, you stroll into work each morning disengaged and hopeless. You're not alone. About 50% of people go through this exact cycle in their job: excited, learning stops, they feel stuck. Hear how Laura confidently and successfully switched industries after being at a job for 8 years. What you'll learn How to know when it's time to leave your job. The importance of self reflection in the career change process. How to successfully switch industries no matter how long you've been in your current one. The tools and resources to use when making a career change. Have career change questions or want to make an introduction? Email scott@happentoyourcareer.com Free Resources What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out! Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over. Related Episodes Laura's "Where Are They Now?" Episode - Positives and Negatives of Starting A New Career: Is It Worth It? (Spotify / Apple Podcasts) Executive Burnout: Making A Midlife Career Change (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

Are the expectations of others holding you back from doing work that is truly fulfilling? Most of us feel like we have to behave like one person when we're at work, and a different person when we're at home or in our social circles. That in itself creates a social expectation. If you want to be yourself at all times, you're bucking the trend. Because, in our world today it's not "normal" to get paid to be who you are, using your true strengths instead of just the skills you've picked up in various roles along the way. But, you want to know the weirdest part? By resisting being your most authentic self at all times (because of fear) we are ensuring that we stay unhappy by default. Learn how to go against the grain and find a career that allows you to be YOU! What You'll Learn How to model living authentically during a career change to find a career that fits How to modify your job offer to reflect what you really want How your boss can support you during your career change The importance of finding your strengths to determine your ideal role Have career change questions or want to make an introduction? Email scott@happentoyourcareer.com Free Resources What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out! Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over. Related Episodes Should I Quit My Job? How to Know It's Time (Spotify / Apple Podcasts) How to Figure Out What You Really Want (Spotify / Apple Podcasts) Six Career Experiments To Help You Discover Your Ideal New Role (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

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. Plus you already know I have a serious aversion to doing what everyone else is doing? 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! What's the difference between a meager change vs a paradigm shifting change? It takes completely reframing your future to be able to achieve a paradigm shifting change. More importantly when you go through the efforts to make them happen, you will not be the same person you were beforehand. A paradigm shift you want to make might not have anything to do with travel or fitness or a "lack of mortgage". It can be anything you want it to be. I'm very sure that there is something that you've wanted that you just haven't thought it was possible so you haven't seriously considered it.

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. There is nothing wrong with you if you don't want to quit your job tomorrow and take a big risk to start your own thing. You have other options. 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. How you can use your power of observation and curiosity to find possible side hustles that fit you. Learn the steps to identify and execute an effective side hustle. Learn how to truly identify and get specific with your ideal customer.

I remember in 2006 I had just been fired from a job that I hated. I was pretty determined to not have to go back to "just another job" where I would spend my days just waiting for the weekend as I grinded it out in meetings that had no meaning to me. 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. It also doesn't have anything to do with applying 200 plus times on Indeed or LinkedIn. So how do they do it? Well we've talked in the past about the importance of prioritizing what you want. That's step 1, you must understand where you're going to make it easier to get there. That said Happy High Achievers realize that people hire other people (not companies and not computers) which means that the very biggest short cut to finding work that fits you (or even getting positions created for you) is through relationships. Now over the years I personally have found the very fastest way to begin a relationship with someone else isn't networking events (and it definitely isn't speed networking!) It's also not social media. Instead it's through something far easier: introductions. THE MOST POWERFUL RELATIONSHIP BUILDING HACK YOU ALREADY HAVE IN YOUR TOOLBOX