Category: Career
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Always Between Worlds
Given all the layoffs, economic uncertainty, banks collapsing or on the verge of collapse, a dysfunctional and divicive political system, global conflicts, and so many other issues I’ve been thinking about what makes sense for me in terms of preparing for the future. Sure, I know you can’t have control of everything or know for…
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A Strengths Shift
As someone who has spent a lot of time getting to know myself, understanding what makes me unique, and how I operate in the world I had the opportunity to revisit my CliftonStrengths for work. I found I’ve actually taken the Top 5 assessment at both of my last jobs. In those cases my Top…
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52 WoC – Week 12 – Career Discovery
If it’s not one thing it’s another. If you’ve been watching the news in the US, the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank is shaking up a lot of people and businesses. Add to that, Meta is laying off another 10,000 people and removing 5,000 open jobs over the next six months. Now I’m not…
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52 WoC – Week 11 – Career Discovery
Ok so we’re catching up for missing last week and being late this week so you’re getting a couple posts off the regular timeline but hopefully starting next week I’ll be back on track to post Wednesday mornings. So, career discovery… I truly believe these questions can be so powerful in helping you understand what…
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52 WoC – Week 10 – Career Discovery
Y’all, I somehow wasn’t thinking when I went out of town for work last week and completely forgot to get something together so I could post. I didn’t go far, just down to St. George in southern Utah, but it was a good trip and I enjoyed meeting folks in person for the first time…
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52 WoC – Week 2
If you’re following along with my blog you’ve seen I had a moment of clarity happen for me earlier this week. A path between the different things I felt I could pursue for my life suddenly felt like it was illuminated and I had a way forward. That was pretty cool. So, for our second…
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My Yoga Journey Continues
A funny thing happened. I wrote the post about my yoga journey and the next day I had the thought to create a resource talking about mindfulness techniques. Simple things people could do to help manage the stress of life. I ended up talking to my husband about it and it was like all of…
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Knowledge Networking
My experience going to a networking event earlier this week after not going to one in years due to the pandemic, I was reminded how overwhelming and uncomfortable they can be if you’re not naturally inclined to go hang out and talk with strangers. It can become worse if you realize you have to spend…
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When Life Gives You Layoffs
This week the company I work for let go of 400 people. I am still processing what happened and have a lot of thoughts but they’re not well formed so I’ll have to save them for later. For now, I want to share something that could be helpful for those who are job searching now…
Contemplating Life’s Choices 