Career Switch Podcast: Expert advice for your career change

If your company offers tuition assistance to pursue a degree, you can start making your career switch NOW while you’re at your current job. This is what Weavy Garcia did when he decided to diversify from IT.  Getting his MBA through his employer was an opportunity to learn about business, get his Master’s, and switch into sales, a more lucrative option for him. In this episode, Weavy tells us what...

It can feel like you’re starting over when you’re making a career switch. Perhaps you’re thinking that you’ll for sure have to take a pay cut to switch industries or professions. This is a common assumption for women. Here to set us straight is Anna McDonnell Dowling, the CEO and co-founder of the f school, an online platform that teaches women the life skills that are not taught in school. Her mi...

Are you thinking about working with a career coach to help with your career change? Bella Holzkenner worked with two career coaches to decide her next move after being in asset management for more than 20 years. One of them was certified career and life coach Deirdre Taylor, who was featured in our last episode about how to figure out your career switch when you’re lost. Bella tells us about the w...

Do you want to make a career change, but don’t know what to pursue? You’re not alone. So many people are struggling to figure out their career switch as shown on Facebook groups for career changers. The most common post on these groups goes something like this, “I’m so unhappy doing what I do right now at my job, but I don’t know what else to do with my career!”  Here to the rescue is certified li...

After almost 20 years as a structural engineer, Patricia Rodriguez reached a point where her career had gotten somewhat stagnant and she was ready for a change. She jumpstarted her next chapter by teaching and founding her own firm and teaching—the dream combo she had imagined in graduate school. Patricia shares how she opened new doors for herself as a woman-and-minority-owned small business and...

Making a career change can take time. And not knowing if it'll turn out the way you want and when it’ll actually happen, can be very stressful.  Are you working on your career switch and constantly worried? Are you feeling discouraged as the weeks or months go by? Life coach Allison Carmen, author of The Gift of Maybe: Finding Hope and Possibility in Uncertain Times, offers 3 tools to handle...

Errol Griffiths spent decades in ad sales until he was aged out. Unsure of what to pursue next, he explored a few options that didn’t work out. He shares how he figured out his career switch at over age 50, and made his way into financial advising, where his age is now an asset with his clients and he can work as many more years as he wants. Episode Highlights Be honest with yourself How to figure...

Which key features on your LinkedIn profile should you update NOW for your career change? And which ones can get you noticed by your target companies? Is it always better to have more LinkedIn connections?  Here to tell us is LinkedIn expert Louise Brogan, host of the weekly podcast, “LinkedIn with Louise”, where she shares her best tips and advice for using LinkedIn to make a career switch.  Find...

Self-declared Type A personality Christina Martin Pendleton shares how she overcame her fear of failure to start her non-profit, LiKen, in spring 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic. LiKen is an organization in the Boston metro area that helps adolescents, who are displaced due to their parents' struggles with substance use disorders. It provides comfort items to these at-risk kids in real...

Career coach Win Sheffield tells us how the pandemic* has changed the job market. Networking virtually is now the norm and Win shares how to reach out and connect with people online when you're trying to switch industries or professions.  Episode Highlights: •  How to network virtually •  How to use LinkedIn •  How to connect with new people •  The 3 groups of people who can help you •  The #...

Lixandra Urresta, executive producer and host, on why she started Career Switch Podcast. Music credit: TimMoor from Pixabay  Podcast info: What's your career switch? What do you think about this episode and the show? Tell us at careerswitchpod.com . Follow us on Instagram , Facebook , and LinkedIn .