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Making Sideways Career Moves (podcast)
Pat Palleschi, is a Ph.D. and founding partner at The Executive Agency a coaching a placement firm in Los Angeles. Given the slim pickins for a move up – she’s become expert in how to repackage and repurpose skills to move sideways. We'll talk about that in this podcast. (14 min) (download mp3)
Tell us a little more about your company, how do you help job seekers.
How is the job market in the LA area?
Whats your overall philosophy about how to change careers (or ‘sideways career move’ as you call it)…especially in a job market like this?
Key questions I ask my clients when contemplating a career change:
1---Everybody has a time when they think "damn, I'm good!" Describe a time when you've said that to yourself after you've done something at work.
--- example: I'm an HR recruiter...but I felt I was damn good when I was explaining how to do something to a co worker. I made the co worker feel really jazzed about the job.
2--What are the 2 or 3 things that you know or do -- that other people don't! -- that made you good in that situation.
--- example: I can put myself in other people's shoes and think step by step from their perspective. NObody can do this as well as I can.
3--Where else (in what other industries, roles, situations, etc.) could those 2 or 3 things be useful.
--- example: putting yourself in someone else's shoes might be useful in teaching, selling, consulting...
4 --Let's rewrite your "employment pitch" to fit another place where you can be "damn good."
--- example: I've always wanted to teach...I bet I could teach people how to be great in call centers. I'm going to talk to a friend who works at a call center -- figure out how I'd teach him his job THEN sell myself to a call center manager.
5-- What are you willing to "put on the line" to prove to that employer that you are damn good.
--- example: I'm willing to teach a few people on my own dime -- then the call center
manager and I can listen into their calls and see if they are better than before. If yes, I've got my foot in the door.
Tell us a little more about your company, how do you help job seekers.
How is the job market in the LA area?
Whats your overall philosophy about how to change careers (or ‘sideways career move’ as you call it)…especially in a job market like this?
Key questions I ask my clients when contemplating a career change:
1---Everybody has a time when they think "damn, I'm good!" Describe a time when you've said that to yourself after you've done something at work.
--- example: I'm an HR recruiter...but I felt I was damn good when I was explaining how to do something to a co worker. I made the co worker feel really jazzed about the job.
2--What are the 2 or 3 things that you know or do -- that other people don't! -- that made you good in that situation.
--- example: I can put myself in other people's shoes and think step by step from their perspective. NObody can do this as well as I can.
3--Where else (in what other industries, roles, situations, etc.) could those 2 or 3 things be useful.
--- example: putting yourself in someone else's shoes might be useful in teaching, selling, consulting...
4 --Let's rewrite your "employment pitch" to fit another place where you can be "damn good."
--- example: I've always wanted to teach...I bet I could teach people how to be great in call centers. I'm going to talk to a friend who works at a call center -- figure out how I'd teach him his job THEN sell myself to a call center manager.
5-- What are you willing to "put on the line" to prove to that employer that you are damn good.
--- example: I'm willing to teach a few people on my own dime -- then the call center
manager and I can listen into their calls and see if they are better than before. If yes, I've got my foot in the door.
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