Always Booked with Vincent Phamvan

Vincent Phamvan is joined by VCL guest, Tim Busa, who has had a 15-year career in sales and marketing, working across the email marketing, security, and e-commerce industries.  He's currently running marketing at Loop Returns, and prior to that held marketing leadership roles at Zaius, Continuum, and Constant Contact.   Join the discussion: https://council.vyten.com/c/live/3-career-lessons-from-15...

When you see positive changes in your life. Many of these happen throughout defining moments, where you're forced out of your comfort zone and you're forced to make a decision. Although this can seem challenging while you're in the middle of it, sometimes the best changes in life come out of these defining moments. Show Notes & Transcript: http://vyten.us/high-defining-moments   Join Vyten Ins...

Christian Zani is an Assistant Director and Lead Talent Advisor at Ernst & Young’s People Advisory Practice. He’s responsible for strategic efforts in identifying, qualifying and attracting Executive Directors and Directors at EY. Christian talks in this episode about career paths at The Big Four and how to break into a career in consulting and finding mentors in your career. Show Notes &...

When setting a goal or vision for the future, how do you establish this vision? In this Quick Tip Friday episode, Vincent shares his method for getting started towards building your future or a new habit.   Show Notes & Transcript: http://vyten.us/high-first-steps   Join Vyten Insider (free forever): http://vyten.com/insider   US or Canada? Text Vincent:  +1 615-667-8433     Get full access to...

Scott Barker is the head of strategic engagement at Outreach, a tech startup valued at $1.33B and backed by the top tech VC firms. Outreach is ranked #4 on Deloitte's 2019 list of the fastest-growing technology companies in North America. In this episode, Scott shares how he pivoted into a career in tech without any tech experience or even a college degree. He also shares step-by-step how he'd rea...

What if there was one thing you could do daily that made you happier? What if it also helped you reduce stress and anxiety? What if it made you a better, kinder person? Would you make the change? In this episode, Vincent talks about this one simple routine that takes just a few minutes a day.  Join Vyten Insider (free forever): http://vyten.com/insider   US or Canada? Text Vincent:  +1 615-667-843...

Carrie Zhou grew up in various communities where she never felt like she was part of the majority. She took the non-traditional path, pivoting out of her career into a role in tech. Today, Carrie is a Talent Acquisition Lead at Facebook, and in this episode, Carrie explains how to bring your authentic self to your professional life by having real conversations instead of feeling the need to say "t...

Devna Shukla is an Emmy award-winning producer. In college, Devna interned for—then—Senator Barack Obama. After graduating from UCLA, she joined CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, where she was promoted to become an editorial producer on the show. Her career has taken her into big tech, spending time at both Amazon and Microsoft, where she is now a business development manager working on monetization and...

The economy added fewer jobs than expected during September, which economists see as another sign that the rebound from the recessing could be slowing. Many job seekers are pivoting industries and job functions, but it raises a question—how do I know if this job is right for me? To answer that question, we share a recent story from our blog.   Join Vyten Insider (free forever): http://vyten.com/in...

LinkedIn automatically generates a new headline when you update your current position, but should you accept the default suggestion? No way. In this episode, I share the simple framework for writing the perfect LinkedIn headline that'll drive more visibility to your profile. You never know when you may catch the eye of someone who works at your next employer.   Full show notes & transcript: ht...

Yesterday, I shared my new Community number and the response has been wild. I got hundreds of texts from all of you within minutes. If you haven't reached out yet... text me at +1 615-667-8433. From time to time, I'll share my career strategies, mindsets, and tips—but I want to hear from you and how you're doing, so send me a text. There were a lot of questions I received and I may not be able to...

Marie Norman is the Director of Global Diversity Talent Acquisition at Adobe. She has been building and scaling talent acquisition teams for over 20 years in software, technology, cloud networking, financial services, and management consulting. In this episode, which is a replay of her keynote session at #HopeSummit, she talks about having an open mindset (or growth mindset) and how that helps job...

Across the country, city migration patterns have been redefined in recent months. Has COVID-19 made you reconsider where you live? This week, initial jobless claims for the week ending September 19th came in at 870,000. Warren Buffett says 4 choices in life separate the doers from the dreamers. All that and more in this Sunday summary.   Full Show Notes & Transcript: https://vyten.us/high-exod...

Amazon recently hosted their annual Career Day that was fully virtual with over 1,000 recruiters helping job seekers. The company announced 33,000 open job positions with corporate and tech workers having an average salary of $150,000. In this quick tip episode, I cover the top three takeaways from the day: how job seekers are currently feeling, how to stand out as an applicant, and optimizing you...

Sarah has worked for Tesla for 3.5 years and specifically focuses her efforts on workforce development & the skilled trades. Growing up, the messaging was always: go to school, get accepted into a 4-year college, get your degree, and there will be a fantastic job waiting for you. Upon exiting college as the Great Recession was wrapping up, this was no longer the case and led to a rude awakenin...

Sarah has worked for Tesla for 3.5 years and specifically focuses her efforts on workforce development & the skilled trades. Growing up, the messaging was always: go to school, get accepted into a 4-year college, get your degree, and there will be a fantastic job waiting for you. Upon exiting college as the Great Recession was wrapping up, this was no longer the case and led to a rude awakenin...

When he graduated from college, Edward Gorbis thought his school wasn't prestigious enough to land a job at a top tech startup. He credits his immigrant parents' work ethic as the reason that he had the traits that employers liked, and his personal network led to his role at WeWork. Today's conversation talks about research roles in different industries, how to communicate your skills to employers...

When Chantel Bonneau graduated from UCLA, she had job interviews lined up after her family vacation. Crisis struck when her return flight home was canceled due to a volcano eruption and she had to cancel her interviews. Fast forward 10 years, her journey has led to an incredible career in wealth management and a Top Women in Business nomination from the Los Angeles Business Journal. Today's conver...

During college, Kelly Breslin Wright carried a 25-pound backpack door-to-door selling educational products. She had doors slammed in her face, dogs let loose on her, and even the police got involved. This adversity was the character building that later allowed her to grow Tableau from $0 into a multi-billion dollar company. Today's conversation talks about how to find mentors, leverage your networ...