Career Central

Our Guest this week, Zack Ballinger, Author of Don't Be A Zombie: How to Find a Career You Love, will guides us through a three-phase process to discover and unleash the passion inside you. Learn strategies for opening doors to ideas, perspective, and opportunities to transform an unfulfilled life into one that impassions you, every single day. Don’t give in to what’s easy by staying in a job or career that is holding you back. Invest in yourself and reshape your future.

Finding a new job may not solve your career issues. Learn how to tell the difference between internal and external factors effecting your job satisfaction. Our guest, Richelle Lecourt, will walk us through the process of determine the source of our dissatisfaction and provide strategies for determining if we need a new job or a new way of approaching our current job.

An advocate for job seekers during the recruitment process, our guest this week, David AuClair will reveal strategies for effectively working with internal and external recruiters. Blending stories of successful recruitments and tips on how to be the star of your own recruitment story, David will share his enthusiasm and expertise as a recruiter.

Our guest is Andy Storch, author of Own Your Career, Own Your Life. Andy shares how to go from a job that runs your life to a career you own. Learn how to create a roadmap for defining and achieving your career goal. Find the career success you are seeking and, along the way, create a happier, more fulfilling life.

Why aren’t you receiving responses to your applications? Susan Collins has been a recruiter for more than 20 years in the retail industry. She exposes the truth of hiring processes and how to ensure your resume reaches the hiring manager's desk. She shares the most effective way to get the job you want. Join us as she pulls back the curtains on the world of recruiting and discusses what you should be doing to create a strategic job search.

Holly Shaw is an expert on connecting with the hiring manager during a virtual interview. An actress who has overcome stage fright, imposter syndrome, and creative blocks, she shares helpful strategies from eye contact to voice control and will have you laughing as you learn.

If you are struggling with motivation and want to accomplish more with less stress, this show is for you. Elizabeth Grace Saunders, an esteemed time management coach and author, explains the keys to moving from guilty, overwhelmed and frustrated to accomplishing more with peace and confidence.

If you dread dealing with office politics and avoid it at all costs, you may be killing your career. Terry McDougall shares the moment she realized office politics meant the difference between being locked in one position versus rising in an organization. Learn how to separate office gossip from career-advancing information to open a path to your next promotion.

Learn how to stop the chain reaction that fear triggers. Jennifer Thornton tells you how to convert your fear into career-advancing actions. Learn how to transform negative messages into positive actions. With this fresh perspective, you can stop making career decisions based on fear and embrace the freedom of building the career you really want. Listen to Jennifer Thornton, an expert on using fear to unleash potential, share the techniques she uses to help individuals and companies excel.

Turning an interview into a job offer requires more than having the right answers to the interviewer's questions. It requires creating a conversation that leads the interviewer to conclude you are the right person for the job. Research shows only 15% of a hiring decision relies on answers to questions. Our guest, Jeff Sipe, an expert on coaching job seekers on the science and technology of interviewing, will share how to excel in the 85% of the interview processes that is non-verbal.

Most resumes submitted for jobs are never seen by actual people because they are eliminated by an Applicant Tracking System (ATS). James Hu helps job seekers create cover letters, resumes and LinkedIn profiles that ATS systems forward to hiring managers. Learn how the founder and CEO of Jobscan is empowering job seekers to beat the resume black hole!

12% percent of all married couples meet at work. Learn from a human resource expert how to navigate the possible pitfalls of an office romance to start a life with your soul mate.

Recently, Marie Zimenoff met with international career thought leaders to develop insights into future career trends. Tap into the wisdom of professionals who help thousands of individuals make successful career advancements and transitions each year. Learn how to incorporate their findings into your career plan.

Fear is the number one factor stopping professionals from reaching their full potentials. Jacqueline Wales helps individuals identify the sources of their fears and develop strategies for alleviating them. Whether you suffer from imposter syndrome (a pervasive feeling of self-doubt, insecurity, or fraudulence) or lose promotional opportunities because you hesitate to share your ideas and insights, your career has been stunted by fear. Learn how to ease your fears, freeing yourself to advance your career.

If your career goal includes moving into a leadership position or excelling in your current leadership role, you will want to know the key strategies to developing strong leadership skills. Wanda Wallace, Managing Partner of Leadership Forum, LLC, and a podcast host who has interviewed organizational leaders from multiple industries, shares her knowledge on how to climb the corporate tree to secure the leadership role you are seeking.

Discover strategies for ensuring your online profile reinforces the professional image you want employers to discover. The step between reviewing an application and calling a candidate for an interview is often a dive into a candidate’s online presence. Our guest shares how to ensure your online image reflects the skills, talents, and professionalism you will bring to the job. Don’t let your online presence impede your job search.

Change is the only constant in managing a career. 85% of the jobs that today’s learners will do in the next 20 years have not been invented yet! The US Bureau of Labor Statistics says that they will have 8-10 jobs by the time they are 38. So how do you prepare for this new future? Listen to Christopher Bishop, a future workplace expert who teaches professionals how to prepare to succeed in jobs that have not yet been created in our 21st century’s global borderless workplace.

Our guest, Lorne Epstein, an expert in dealing with unconscious bias shares strategies for identifying and working towards the elimination of unconscious bias in the workplace and creating a happier, more productive work environment that reduces turnover.

There is little question that the pandemic has changed the world of work. Our guest, Myriam-Rose Kohn, has been helping people understand how they, themselves, have changed during the past year and uses that knowledge to help them move forward in their careers. Whether you find yourself looking for a job or wondering if you want to keep the job you have, Myriam will walk you through a proven process for deciding how to adapt your career goals to the post-pandemic world of work.

Prospective employers only know what you tell them. Our guest, Ellen Steverson, shares how to ensure a prospective employer knows why you should be considered their top candidate. She shows you how to identify and market your skills, talents, and experience. Merging her extensive background in recruiting and marketing with her industry-leading resume development and coaching skills, she has developed a plan that any job seeker can use to create a positive impression on a prospective employer.