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The Exclusive Career Coach is presented by Lesa Edwards, CEO of Exclusive Career Coaching. This weekly podcast covers all things career management including job search strategies, interviewing tips,
The Exclusive Career Coach
20h ago
Over the years, a number of people have reached out to me with concerns about their resume – in some cases, resumes I wrote for them.
They went to a website that offered a free resume critique and got back harsh criticism that worried them.
Here’s what’s going on: Larger, so-called “resume mills” have software they run your resume through. That software is set up for the express purpose of telling you things are terribly wrong with your resume, after which they do a hard sell to get you to buy a resume package from them.
I promise you, I could send my own resume to them an ..read more
The Exclusive Career Coach
2w ago
Here’s the scenario: You’ve been promoted in your current unit. You are now managing people who used to be your peers – at least one of whom may have also applied for the promotion.
How do you transition from a colleague to a manager? This can happen as you move from an individual contributor to a first-time manager, or from a manager to a director or senior manager. You could also become a VP and start managing your former director colleagues.
In short, this scenario can happen at any level.
As I researched this topic, many of the resources I looked at gave rather generic ..read more
The Exclusive Career Coach
3w ago
I want to start by being clear: This is a topic I’ve covered before. I’m covering it again because, based on the resumes that come to me for consults, ya’ll haven’t gotten the message yet.
In addition to touching on this topic in several episodes, I specifically covered job duties and achievements in episode #174. I’m going to expand on the content from that episode in this one.
What I see
Let’s start with what I see on almost every resume that comes my way: either there isn’t an achievement in sight, or the few achievements that are there are mixed in with bulleted job duties ..read more
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1M ago
As most of you know, the first 90 days in a new job are critical for your long-term success – not only in that role, but for your future with the organization.
Today, I want to give you key steps you can take in those first 90 days to set yourself up for success.
Let’s start with an Individual Contributor role.
A primary focus from week 1 should be getting clear success metrics and priorities from your boss. This typically goes beyond the job description, although that’s a good starting point if you don’t already have one. If your boss doesn’t have success metrics a ..read more
The Exclusive Career Coach
1M ago
First, a confession: When I started seeing articles and comments about “dry promotions,” I didn’t know what that was.
In case some of you are in that same boat, here’s a definition:
“A promotion without a salary increase.”
As American businesses seek innovative ways to cut costs in a tightening economy, employers may be enticed to promote employees but withhold a salary increase.
There are two primary benefits to an employee who accepts a dry promotion:
1. An opportunity to gain new skills and take on new challenges.
2.&nb ..read more
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1M ago
Today, we’re talking about how to develop your elevator pitch. This is your 15-to-30 second “commercial” about yourself, which you will need for use in a variety of settings, including:
-Introducing yourself at a networking meeting
-Selling yourself to a potential employer
-Selling yourself, your company, or your product/service to a potential customer
If you’re not familiar with the concept, the idea is that you could say your elevator pitch while going from one floor to the next on an elevator.
Elevator pitches come in a variety of shapes and sizes, depend ..read more
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1M ago
Last week, I focused on Verbal Communication Skills to Enhance Promotability; today I’m covering Written Communication Skills.
Once again, I want to start with an assessment – these are great questions to ask yourself. From there, I recommend you pick the area that you felt the least confident about and set a 90-day goal for improvement.
1. How well can I anticipate and predict possible causes for written confusion and miscommunication, and how good am I at dealing with them upfront?
2. How often do recipients fully understand my messages ..read more
The Exclusive Career Coach
2M ago
Today, I want to give you strategies to improve your verbal communication skills – specifically, with an eye to enhancing your promotability.
Next week’s episode will piggyback on this one with ways to improve your written communications skills – also with an eye to enhancing your promotability.
In episode #113, I covered active listening at work; here’s the link to that episode:
https://exclusivecareercoaching.com/posts/2020-02-05-113-active-listening-at-work/
In episode #114, I talked about effective communication at work, and I’ve included that link in the show notes. I ..read more
The Exclusive Career Coach
2M ago
Today’s topic is the most important leadership qualities employers are looking for – and derailers to avoid.
As you can imagine, every source I reviewed for this episode had a slightly different list and number of qualities, so I’ve attempted to synthesize a few sources into my list of leadership qualities for leading an organization, leading others, and leading yourself.
I’ve also given you a major leadership derailer.
Leadership Skills for Leading the Organization:
My ask for this section is for you to identify one leadership skill you would like to work on for th ..read more
The Exclusive Career Coach
2M ago
Greetings, Career-Minded Superstars! Welcome to The Exclusive Career Coach podcast. I’m Lesa Edwards, Certified Executive and Leadership Development Coach, Certified Job Search Strategist, and Master Resume Writer.
If you would like to learn more about my practice, check out my website at exclusivecareercoaching.com. While you’re there, be sure to look at the Free Resources page – I have lots of great stuff there for you to take advantage of.
So far this month, I’ve talked about what you need to know if you are going to be conducting a job search this year – and what the job mark ..read more