Career Foresight | Future of Work for Creative Professional‪s‬ Jennifer Spoelma

Wow! We’ve finally arrived at the 100 mark. It seemed to take forever, but speed was never the point.

I just want to say thank you to those of you listening now, and to everyone who has tuned into an episode in the past, or come back again and again.

Making and evolving the Career Foresight podcast has been so much fun because of you.

Diana is a career coach who specializes in helping women reconnect with their professional identities and navigate the job market after taking time away from the workforce to focus on raising their children. Her coaching business is Back to Work Roadmap for Mothers and she was kind enough to share her expertise and wisdom on this topic with us in today’s conversation.

When it comes to career changing, we spend a lot of time talking about how to show that you are a right fit for the company or position. Landing a job offer is fun, but it’s only truly great when the company you’ll be working for is a great fit for you, too.

Prioritization removes mental tension by establishing boundaries about what actually deserves our attention. When practiced well, prioritization frees us from the constant negotiation and renegotiation of what’s important and worth our energy at that time.

In common conversation, “strengths” is often used interchangeably for words like “skills,” “knowledge” or “abilities.” It’s not that using “strengths” in that way is necessarily wrong, it just doesn’t get to the depth of what strengths really are.

So, what are strengths?

One of the biggest criticisms about the modern job market is that who people are “on paper” is prioritized over who they are in “real life.” As someone who has both hired employees and now helps people get hired--I don’t think this argument is worth the time. In this episode I show how to work with the "system" to get the job search results you want.