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Career Cohort
by Emily Wong
Hello! In this podcast, we talk about tools for achieving career success, inspirational stories about overcoming career and life challenges, and how we can recalibrate our perspective to better enjoy the journey forward.My hope is that as you join my guests and me, you'll approach your career with more curiosity, a sense of humor, and most of all, more self-understanding. You can follow me at: @CareersEmily, linkedin.com/in/emilysfwong, and www.wordsofdistinction.net
Episodes
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Get What You Want on the Other Side of Uncomfortable
𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙪𝙣𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚.—Heather Vickery I had so much fun chatting with Heather Vickery, author of 📖 𝙁*𝙘𝙠 𝙁𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨: 𝙈𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙧𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙥 📖 Having fear isn’t the...
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Think Like an Employer: Using Job Descriptions to Guide Your Resume
Do you want to enhance your resume to increase your chances of getting hired? A field-tested tactic I use with my clients to achieve this goal is using job descriptions as a guide. By understanding the specific skills and experience that employers are looking for, you can tailor your resume to...
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5 Strategic Pivots to Reach the C-Suite
Did you know that many of us used strategies early in our career that may stifle our rise to the C-Suite? Despite our best efforts to excel in our roles, a seat at the leadership table may seem beyond our reach, leaving us feeling undervalued and stuck in our current position. My guest, Ellen...
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5 Tips to Overcome Anxiety + Ace Your Interview
The first order of business in overcoming interview-related anxiety is 🥁: 💡 Remember that you’re also interviewing THEM! Yes, you’re the candidate, but fit is as important for you as it is for them. You deserve the opportunity to gather your own intel to make a decision. 💡 Write down 10…
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Capturing Your Unique Writer's Voice with Anne Janzer
Anne Janzer is the author of 8 books on the craft of writing. The latest, The Writer's Voice, is perfect for those of us who want to level up our craft, even if our main content is business email. She's an expert at the art of developing a unique voice that resonates with readers and strengthens...
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10 Tips to Modernize Your Resume Fast
Listen to this short episode for 10 quick ways to modernize your resume. If you know your way around your software, it should take you just 15 minutes. If you're visual, you can see how I put these tips into practice at www.wordsofdistinction.net/samples By the way, if you’d like to get tips like...
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Strategic Writing for Leaders: Inspiring others to act
Discover the secrets to writing with confidence and strategy in the workplace. Join Erin Lebacqz as she uncovers the challenges of strategic writing and how to balance clarity and emotional intelligence. The truth about language choices may leave you questioning your own communication skills. And...
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Using Video to Expand Your Side Hustle Career Opportunities, with Tanya Smith
🌟This is the last episode for Season 7...I'm looking forward to sharing more career tips, as well as inspiring conversations with terrific guests, during Season 8...beginning October 2, 2023.🌟 In the meantime, check out my library of episodes, including this one: If you’re considering a side...
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Leave Nothing on the Table: Negotiating Equity Compensation with Richard Archer
If you worry about leaving money on the table when negotiating job offers, or you’re feeling overwhelmed by all the different types of employer equity grants, or you aren’t sure which are the best options for YOU, then you’re not alone! Many job seekers struggle to navigate the complexities of...
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Win Over the Recruiter: 6 Tips for Creating a More Concise & Clear Resume
Increase your chances of landing an interview with my 6 tips to cut the fluff. Write a concise and clear resume that wins over busy recruiters. In this episode, you'll: Learn how to replace and eliminate superfluous language to strengthen your resume. Grasp the importance of abbreviating and...
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Unleashing the Power of the Modern Badass so Companies Thrive with Parissa Behnia
Have you ever felt like those who work with you don’t support you, even though you’re trying to achieve amazing results? Do they tell you you’re difficult to work with, or that you’re too much? Do you feel like they just don’t understand your intentions? My guest today, Parissa Behnia, coaches...
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Listener Challenge: One-Hour LinkedIn Spring Cleaning
So you've landed a new role. CONGRATULATIONS! 🎉 Now...have you refreshed your LinkedIn profile to reflect your new position? If you prepared for your new job with a LinkedIn profile overhaul, you (or a professional writer) have already done the heavy lifting. So a quick refresh should be easy....
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The Art of Personal Presence & Compelling Communication with Catherine Johns
Where are your feet right now? Seriously. Are both planted firmly on the floor or is one wrapped around the other to make yourself small? Grounding yourself is just one of the surprisingly simple tactics Catherine Johns shares for supporting a more assertive posture. In business, showing up means...
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The Difference Between Scope & Achievement on your Resume
One of the challenges I see job seekers facing when they send me their resume is distinguishing between scope and achievements. But there is a difference. Scope is the context within which you do your job. Or, you might think of it as the setting for you to razzle dazzle your audience with your...
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Latchkey Workforce: The Impact of Remote Work on Gen Z
Gina Riley is an authority on career transition at the powerful convergence of career coaching, executive search, and interview skills training. She created the Career Velocity™ system to help leaders and executives effectively manage career transitions. An inspirational writer and speaker, Gina…
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How to Build (and Influence!) Standout Onboarding, Training & Development Programs
📢 Note: This episode wraps up season 6. I'll kick off Season 7 on April 10th. Until then, please enjoy this and other episodes from season 6 and beyond! 👇👇👇 "If you have a lot of training and you have a culture within yourself of training and development, you're going to be more successful, I...
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Servant Authorship: Authentic Writing in an AI World
Anne Janzer is an author, nonfiction book coach and blogger who explores the science and mystery of writing as a means of communication. She is the author of "The Workplace Writer's Process" and "33 Ways Not to Screw Up Your Business Emails," among other excellent books on the art of writing.…
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Advice from a Gen Zer: How to Land & Thrive in College Internships
"Be willing to put yourself out there and be willing to take some criticism. Take risks and make your own luck by being strategic, explicating your goals, asking questions, and pushing yourself beyond your scope of work." - Zach Wong When Zach Wong, a UCLA mechanical engineering student…
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How to Demonstrate Your Leadership Skills Without a Formal Title
If you can get people to set aside their agenda to help you, you're pretty darned amazing—and you're a leader. In this episode, you'll learn: 1. How some of my clients demonstrated leadership and got promotions to leadership roles despite not having a formal title 2. How *you* can demonstrate...
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Powerful Behaviors that Lead to the C-Suite
It's time. You can break through the glass ceiling and reach the C-Suite. In Pooja Dang's decades of experience coaching women leaders, she's seen patterns of self-doubt, fear of failure, imposter syndrome, and the disease to please emerge over and over. Mindsets that get in the way of women...
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How to Land a Job You Love AND Make More Money
Get clear on who you are and what you have to offer so you can attract the right opportunities and maximize your career potential. Here's what I cover with Erin Thomas in this episode: 1. The importance of understanding and articulating your unique value proposition and professional brand. 2. The...
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Cultivating Empathy with Gen Z and Why it Matters
The future of work has arrived, and it’s powered by empathy. We need to orient ourselves differently to be successful, shifting from transactional to human-centric management, mindsets, and methods to deal with the faster pace of business developments, continuing uncertainties, more complex…
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Managing Finances During Your Job Search
My guest this week is Lynda McDonell. Lynda is a Certified Financial Coach and Life Coach, specializing in empowering female professionals and business owners. She helps clients take control of their money AND their thoughts to reduce their anxiety around finances by teaching them how to think...
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How Sleep Impacts Our Performance
Terry Cralle is a registered nurse, Certified Clinical Sleep Educator, and Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality who specializes in sleep health and wellness. As Better Sleep Council's spokesperson, frequent speaker and guest lecturer on the topic of sleep for schools, universities, sleep...
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What's Next? Your Journey to An Authentic Career
I had such a great conversation with Carole Dupre. Her commitment to helping her clients find their way to careers where they can bring their whole, authentic selves is inspiring and this episode is a must-listen. The best guide for such a journey is someone who's been there, and Carole knows the...
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See you again on 10.24.22!
Hi there! After a season packed with amazing guests who shared their wisdom about everything from compensation, building connections, getting the compensation you deserve, boosting your confidence and energy, and finding the career that suits you, I'll be taking a short break and preparing for...
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Recharge Your Career with Beth Benatti Kennedy
Beth Benatti Kennedy brings more than 20 years of experience to her role as a leadership and executive coach, resiliency-training expert, and speaker. Her Benatti Resiliency Model® has helped thousands of people develop the resilience to adapt to changing career circumstances, take responsibility...
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Navigating the Jobs News Cycle with Mark Anthony Dyson
Remember when everyone was talking about the great resignation, and how it was a seller’s market (the seller being the job seeker)? Now the hot topic is layoffs. If your head's spinning, you're not alone. Join Mark Anthony Dyson and me as we: 👉 try to make sense of job reports in the context of...
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Work from the Inside Out with Tammy Gooler Loeb
Don't miss my conversation with author, speaker, and podcast host, Tammy Gooler Loeb, on how we can find the job we love by working from the inside out if we: 👉 Understand that success is not a destination. 👉 Turn our fear into curiosity. 👉 Tap into and nurture our network. 👉 Remember that...
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✨Bonus Episode✨: Discussing the Virtues of Planning vs. Agility with Alex Wong
I usually invite my professional colleagues, but in this ✨bonus episode✨, you'll hear me chatting with my son, Alex, about the virtues of planning (some might say "control"🤔) vs. agility in the moment. It's not easy being a parent (or a teenager) when one of us (guess who?) prefers control while...
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Closing The Confidence Gap with Kelli Thompson
What a great conversation with author and speaker Kelli Thompson on how we can gain more confidence—whether we need it to stand out in meetings or to better connect with our audience as a presenter. 𝐊𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝: 👉 Presentation prep (it may be easier than you're making it!) 👉...
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Don't Wait for Inspiration to Start Your Job Search
If you struggle getting started because you're waiting for inspiration, try reversing your logic. The #1 piece of advice for writers is to get our butts in the chair and start writing. That's the only way we're going to get inspired. We get inspired by doing. This applies to the project of job...
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Get Your Next Job Faster: Put it On the Calendar
In the last episode, I talked about the 5 elements of a successful job search project. In this episode, I'm focusing on the importance of getting the start date on your calendar and following that with a weekly cadence. Tips: Block that start date and protect it against all temptations, like...
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5 Steps to Managing Your Job Search Like a Project
How many times have we been advised to manage our job search like a full-time job. If you consider that, though, it can be overwhelming. Think about it: 40+ hours added to the 40+ hours you're already committing to your "day" job. I recommend conducting your job search as a project, instead.…
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Create a Roadmap to the Compensation You Deserve
In this episode I chat with Sonja Price, who is a Top Career Strategist, Salary Advisor, and Leadership Coach. Her mission is to support professionals to have greater meaning, better work-life balance, and significantly higher pay. She’s the distinguished author of 2 books: The Pivot Point…
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The 3 T's for Effectively Communicating About Your Career: Target, Tone, and Time
We often get hung up on ATS when writing our career documents and communicating regarding our skills, but there are 3 key elements that are often overlooked: Target Tone Time Listen in to how you can streamline your communication by incorporating these elements.
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Getting Your Resume Past ATS
In this episode I share best practices for getting your resume past ATS (Applicant Tracking Systems) and into the hands of the hiring manager. Specifically, I talk about the 3 areas of your resume that have the greatest impact on the ATS filter: Skills Formatting Graphs and other graphics To view...
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Is It OK to Brag?
It’s so HARD for me to talk about myself! I get it. You don’t feel the need to shout your achievements from the rooftops. You’re a high achiever, and there’s a reason you got where you are: you spend more time showing what you can do, so you haven’t needed to talk about it. And to be clear…
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Expert Advice from Shelley Piedmont On Interviewing Best Practices
If you want to be prepared for your next interview, you won't want to miss my conversation with Shelley Piedmont, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, a career coach and job search expert who has hired for roles that span entry-level hourly positions to senior leadership roles at Fortune 500s to small, private...
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Why Career Stories Matter and How to Use Them
I can get excited during football season, even if I don’t know a first down from an offside. Why? Because I love the stories behind the stats. Recruiters and hiring managers do, to! Listen in to learn how you can draw on your stories to attract recruiters. Send me an email if you'd like help with...
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Attracting Recruiters and Keeping Them Interested
Melissa Reeves, Recruiter and Career Coach, shares excellent tips for attracting recruiters and building relationships with them no matter where you are in your job search. Learn what you can do to take control of your process, get found, and stay connected--so when opportunities arise, you'll be...
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5 Tips for Creating a More Toned Career Profile in 2022
Happy New Year! Put Your Career Profile on a Fitness Program! Kickstart 2022 by applying 5 tips to creating a more toned career profile. Cut unnecessary words like so many empty calories. If you find these tips helpful, join my 2-Week Career Content Boot Camp, which will run January 10-21. Cheers!
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Removing Speedbumps from Your Career Profile
I’ve created a list of the top 10 things we can do to avoid the speedbumps I see so often on resumes, LinkedIn, and cover letters If you search wordsofdistinction.net/sampleresumes, you’ll see some of my actual resumes, which are examples of what I mean by the improvements. BTW, as you’re…
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Making the Move: Advice on Transitioning from the Federal Government to Private Sector
Hello, career cohort! If you’re thinking about making a career transition, especially if you’re considering a shift from the public to private sector, you’re not going to want to miss my conversation with my special guest, Adam Corn. For the past 20 years, Adam has been designing, developing, and...
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Personal Branding: Establishing Your Digital Dress Code™
There’s no question that women face unique challenges in the tech industry - from entry-level employees to established executives. Gaining visibility in a male-dominated industry, establishing credibility, and maintaining brand integrity can be easily compromised without consistent reinforcement…
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How to Tackle Your Resume
Writing your resume and other elements of your career profile shouldn't be overwhelming. Listen to my 5 steps for getting unstuck and capturing your amazing achievements.
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6 Steps to Career Transition
You'll find it a lot easier to transition to a new career if you follow these 6 steps. For more information about my services, please visit www.wordsofdistinction.net
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Using James Clear's Atomic Habits to Discipline Your Job Search
If you're stuck and having trouble establishing a routine for your job search, try Implementing James Clear's 4 paths to good habits: Make it obvious Make it attractive Make it easy Make it satisfying #jobsearch #careeradvice #habits Following me at www.wordsofdistinction.net
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A Gap In Your Career Doesn't Have to be a Gap in Progress
Your career opportunities won't dry up just because you took a some time off. But there will be questions. So own your gaps. If you haven't taken a sabbatical yet, you're in the best position because you have time to think about how you will use that time. Will you travel, volunteer, take…
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Using the CAR Structure to Tell Your Career Stories
Use the CAR structure to tell compelling stories in documents and interviews. This will help recruiters and hiring managers imagine you in the role by: Illustrating challenges you know how to overcome. Providing insights into how you solve problems. Giving concrete evidence of the results you can...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Hello! In this podcast, we talk about tools for achieving career success, inspirational stories about overcoming career and life challenges, and how we can recalibrate our perspective to better enjoy the journey forward.My hope is that as you join my guests and me, you'll approach your career with more curiosity, a sense of humor, and most of all, more self-understanding. You can follow me at: @CareersEmily, linkedin.com/in/emilysfwong, and www.wordsofdistinction.net
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