Happen To Your Career - Meaningful Work, Career Change, Career Design, & Job Search

Have you wondered how you can move from being a good job candidate to being a great candidate? Have you identified your big "value-adds" from your past job experiences and how you can apply them to any industry? Have you wondered how to open more doors of opportunity during informational interviews? Several times over the past several months, we brought some past guests back onto the podcast to ca...

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I've been studying high performers and top performers for approaching 20 years now. Lots of things have surprised me about how top performers do things differently. But quite possibly the most surprising is how high performing people ask for help. It's completely different than the average person. I found that most people don't think about this as a skill set. What I've learned though by studying...

What if you get rejected from what you thought was going to be your purpose? What if the work you thought would be meaningful isn't? When you get rejected from that - even just one rejection - you start to really question all of your skill sets and the journey that you've been on.  If that's you - you're going to learn how to turn an end into a beginning of what's next in your life.   To binge-lis...

When thinking about meaningful work and the various pieces that need to come together, it might cause you to wonder, "Are these even possible together, and, if so, how do real people actually find these opportunities?" With the help of science and some real people who have done a great job finding meaningful work and career happiness, we're going to break down the answers for you. So, the question...

Organizations that focus on employee experiences create more profit. Employees want more meaningful work and work experiences and are willing to take less pay for it? So why haven't companies really started paying attention to this? Or are some organizations beginning to wake up and realize that more and more of the workforce is wanting more meaningful work?   Thanks to Philips for their openness...

There's so much conflicting information out there about what creates more fulfilling, more desirable work:  Is it the job?  Is it the company?  Is it the type of role or occupation? Is meaningful work really even obtainable in the first place?  The short answer is "yes," but in reality it happens differently than what most of the world thinks it does.   Thanks to Philips for their openness and acc...

This is a special episode. This is episode 300! We are bringing on a bunch of people today to give you a behind-the-scenes look at several aspects of the HTYC podcast. We'll hear from several members of the HTYC team, we also have several surprise guests, all sharing a bit of how we all met Scott and how HTYC has helped us. We'll also have some of the best tips if you feel stuck in your career. An...

Many of us get exhausted. Maybe it's because of a lack of sleep. Maybe it's from working too much or too hard. Maybe it's from stress. But being exhausted doesn't mean that it has to be a negative in your life. Laura Morrison was used to be exhausted, but now it feels different. "So, I still leave work exhausted. It's just that now the exhaustion is from kind of flexing my brain and personal devel...

What if I told you that the number 1 way to land your dream job is having confidence? Would you feel like you're on the path to getting there...or just stuck? Well, if your answer is "just stuck"--you're not alone. In our latest podcast episode Laura, one of our stellar Career Change Bootcamp Graduates tells us how it took her nearly  3 years  to leave a job she wasn't passionate about because she...

"Now looking back at it. I never really asked myself the questions of whether I wanted to to do this. It is just normal. Many of us do that." That's what Michal Balass had said when I asked her where her career started. She went on to explain that she spent years getting her Doctorate and when it came time to get a job she did it without thinking… because that's what you do! It is normal. Unfortun...

By now you should have a decision! Yeah!  Let's celebrate! But if you don't yet...It's ok!  This is a lifelong process and some people want and need more help than the email course! We have created other types of help because I whole heartedly believe and know just how important this is!  I have seen lives change again and again when our students get clear on what they want!    By the way, if you...

It's up to you now!  We've done all we can do to get you on the path to the job that you love.  All that is left is to decide to take the next step. Here's 3 tips (and one video) to help you make this decision: Everything does  not  depend on this.   You're well prepared!  "Magic happens when you're in motion" – Richie Norton .    By the way, if you want to get this sent straight to your email box...

Here's the reality: Decisions are hard. They don't sound like they should be hard, but they stop people every single day, usually many many times a day from doing something productive.  So much so that I personally spend much of my energy eliminating unimportant decision making from my life that I won't care about years or even weeks from now. Decisions like what do I have for breakfast or what sh...

Our minds are amazing. We can do absolutely unbelievable things with our brains! One thing we can do is we can very effectively filter and sort information. This is a huge benefit to us, but can also cause a lot of problems in the form of cognitive bias. This just means that as human beings the way our brains function can actually bias us toward or away from certain things like steering us away fr...

Remember in the last lesson when we talked about how most people miss the simple logic: you have to know where you're going to be able to figure out how to get there.  Well, this applies to more than just the job you have or a business that you run.  Just try to separate out your work from the rest of your life! You can't.   The people you spend the most time with or don't spend the most time with...

What do you want?   It's a simple enough question.  I'll bet you can't easily answer that question?  Go ahead and give it a try! I'll wait! Harder than it seems right?    But what if you could intentionally and succintly answer that question? When you have the answer to what you really want in your career and in your life and really go after it, it allows you to do things most people would conside...

IS REFLECTION ON THE PAST YOUR KEY TO CAREER HAPPINESS? The short answer is "H-E- double hockey sticks to the NO". (mostly because I love hockey and a little because reflection is not the magic bullet alone!) But what's the longer more nuanced answer? To be clear; reflecting on the past alone is not going to get you where you want to go in your career or your life. It will take intentional action...

MOST PEOPLE THINK THAT THEY KNOW THEIR STRENGTHS… I hear them say things like "I learn fast" or "I'm good with people" but most people have not spent enough time or effort to truly understand what it is that they are great at or have the potential to be great at! Maybe these are true, but these aren't specific enough to really be what you are great at. What is it that makes you great with people,...

We've now had over 30,000 people go through our figure it out eight the mini course. (and that's a lot of people, as it turns out) Also, we realized, as we were talking behind the scenes, that it had been a long time, like six years long time, since we really updated this mini course. So guess what? We've updated it! But we're going to do you one better, because we're actually going to share each...

As human beings, when we get stuck, we tend to focus on one thing that we latch onto as the "reason" why. Or one thing that if we could only do, it would solve all of our problems.  It's never just one thing. It's always more nuanced than that.  There is one thing that is very clear though, The reasons why you think you're stuck and the reasons why you're actually stuck, are two completely differe...

One of the most common career change misconceptions is that you'll have to start over – that all of your experience will go out the window if you make a change. It's difficult to imagine a scenario where you don't take a step down… where you actually get a promotion on top of finally finding work you actually love. How can you make that happen? In today's episode, we're revealing the 4 most common...

Are your skills transferable to your dream career?   Many people don't believe that their skills can apply to the career they are desiring to move into. People tend to put their skills and experience into boxes and can't see how the skills of one box can apply to another box. The truth, though, is that most of your skills and experience CAN transfer, even if you don't yet know what your dream care...

Have you considered quitting your job? Are you frustrated because your job doesn't fit you? We get emails about this all the time. Every situation is different, but there are some key actions that apply across the board. Today, Josh joins Scott to tackle 3 questions from listeners: I need help getting unstuck... My job doesn't fit and I want to quit... I need help understanding my strengths...   T...

Everyone I talk to wants freedom, until they realize how it really actually works. One thing that comes up frequently while coaching people through career changes is the idea of obtaining freedom in their life and work. Freedom means different things for everyone. Sometimes it's freedom to travel, or financial freedom, or just having the freedom and flexibility to pick up your kids from school.   ...