26 min
How to Break Through Your Career Plateau: Tips and Strategies for Moving Forward Careers In Review
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Linda Evans is a strength-based career coach, speaker, and writer who specializes in personal branding. She earned a BA in American Studies and a minor in Ballroom Dance from Brigham Young University and an MA in Psychology Counseling from Columbia University. Linda resides in San Antonio, Texas. She started her virtual career coaching business, Launched by Linda, in 2011 and has worked in higher education for ten years in five universities. She is a Gallup certified Strength Coach and has certificates in Positive Psychology and Public Speaking. Linda started her career trajectory by volunteering and having part-time jobs mentoring other students in college. She then went on to pursue a master's program in counseling, which she dropped out of after two semesters. Linda then worked as an administrative executive assistant while earning her master's degree. Afterward, she got a full-time job as a career counselor at Columbia University and then tried academic advising but ultimately went back to career services. Along the way, Linda also had a side hustle where she started editing resumes of friends and family and then built it up to offering services such as personal branding, changing careers, practice for interviews, LinkedIn branding, and cover letters. Linda has also started doing podcast interviews, public speaking, webinars, panels, and writing articles for an international business online magazine. Linda's current goal is to take a break from her full-time career to look after her baby girl and eventually go back to get her PhD and become a professor.
Connect with Linda: https://www.linkedin.com/in/launchedbylinda/
Her website: https://www.launchedbylinda.com/
Linda Evans is a strength-based career coach, speaker, and writer who specializes in personal branding. She earned a BA in American Studies and a minor in Ballroom Dance from Brigham Young University and an MA in Psychology Counseling from Columbia University. Linda resides in San Antonio, Texas. She started her virtual career coaching business, Launched by Linda, in 2011 and has worked in higher education for ten years in five universities. She is a Gallup certified Strength Coach and has certificates in Positive Psychology and Public Speaking. Linda started her career trajectory by volunteering and having part-time jobs mentoring other students in college. She then went on to pursue a master's program in counseling, which she dropped out of after two semesters. Linda then worked as an administrative executive assistant while earning her master's degree. Afterward, she got a full-time job as a career counselor at Columbia University and then tried academic advising but ultimately went back to career services. Along the way, Linda also had a side hustle where she started editing resumes of friends and family and then built it up to offering services such as personal branding, changing careers, practice for interviews, LinkedIn branding, and cover letters. Linda has also started doing podcast interviews, public speaking, webinars, panels, and writing articles for an international business online magazine. Linda's current goal is to take a break from her full-time career to look after her baby girl and eventually go back to get her PhD and become a professor.
Connect with Linda: https://www.linkedin.com/in/launchedbylinda/
Her website: https://www.launchedbylinda.com/
26 min