#24 Catie Harriss - HR Business Partner / Love the problem not solution / Assessing for awesome / Catch up with a special guest

Welcome to another episode of "Wish I Knew . . . " A podcast where I speak with people about their careers focusing on their success, advice, mentoring and listening to interesting stories.You are going to love my conversation with my guest Catie Harris and stick around for the end because a special guest joins us, her young son Bond.BackgroundBeing a southern California young lady Catie went to University of California Berkeley with an MBA from UC San DiegoSpent the majority of her career with HP as Design manager & business planner for Inkjet business solutionsIntuit Senior Product Manager for Turbo TaxMoved over to HR (great story) in Talent acquisition, Director of Product management HRDirector, HR Business partner Highlights from our terrific conversationAll day in the pool building confidenceTough life growing up in the San Diego sun, beach, life guard,Great advice from her college professor that has guided her career pathTaking a year off to figure things outAdviceDo things that open up possibilitiesMakes choice that widen your options NOT narrow your optionsFocused less on the technical expertise and more on the manager skillsCatie LOVEs to tackle a brand new problemBranching out / widening into HREditor of the high school news paper and having a great skill at interviewingBeing great at interviewing, have Empathy and mindfully listeningListening to all the queues being given to you Listening with your whole bodyGiving time and space for the authentic answer NOT the prepared answerGetting an MBA to speak with each function on their own termsProduct manager being a Mini CEO perspectiveHolding her own being an English major with the Engineer crowdSupply Chain MBA class and LOVING it, who would have thoughtDesign thinkingApplying to anythingGoing broad to go narrowFall in love with the customers problem NOT YOUR solutionThe opposite of design thinking, tough to surviveBeing offered a job that you weren't interviewing forTips on interviewing, getting into the craft or the problemAssessing for Awesome - Great storyCatie is much more polite on interviewing that I would beWhen Catie gives you critical feedback you won't even know itShowing up in a corporate environment that is authentic to youGetting advice on what "Aggressive" meansGet examples and definitions before jumping to conclusionsWant to be a guest? Email me at [email protected]!