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When you’re pivoting your career direction, you want to first confidently narrow in on the best direction for you and then objectively assess your skill set to figure out what, if any, upskilling opportunities are worthwhile for you to pursue.
Join us for this talk by Career...
When you’re pivoting your career direction, you want to first confidently narrow in on the best direction for you and then objectively assess your skill set to figure out what, if any, upskilling opportunities are worthwhile for you to pursue.
Join us for this talk by Career Exploration Coach and CEO Rachel Serwetz, in partnership with Power to Fly, to ready yourself to level up in your career to learn how to assess upskilling opportunities and leverage networking as a way of learning nuanced hiring practices so that you can intentionally and efficiently land your ideal next job.
Rachel Serwetz' early professional experience was at Goldman Sachs in Operations and at Bridgewater Associates in HR. From there, she was trained as a coach at NYU and became a certified coach through the International Coach Federation. After this, she worked in HR Research at Aon Hewitt and attained her Technology MBA at NYU Stern. Throughout her career, she has helped hundreds of professionals with career exploration and for the past 4 years she has been building her company, WOKEN, which is an online career exploration platform to coach professionals through the process of clarifying their ideal job and career path. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at Binghamton University and has served as a Career Coach through the Flatiron School/WeWork, Columbia University, and Project Activate.
How do you network into the career you’re pivoting into when you have zero connections in that field?
There are so many exciting careers I'm interested in, what is the best way to narrow it down?
How to get over age and 20+ years experience discrimination for job opportunities?
How do you candidly assess whether you truly don’t have a skill or if it’s just imposter syndrome?
I'm interested in hearing about up-skilling for programming careers. I recently completed a bootcamp and am not as prepared as I'd like for software development jobs. So I'm taking a break from...
Excited to hear from Rachel! I'm currently shifting industries: construction/food industry/government background to tech - staying within my background of Operations. Crafting an...
I have the opportunity after 30 years in one industry to take my skills elsewhere. What is a good way to show how my skills can convert to a totally different industry? Should I rely on my...
Assess Your Capabilities and Pursue Upskilling to Forge Your Career Pivot
Before covid I was working in a in person customer service role at a busy public library. Now I would like to find a more remote position when I return to full time but I'm unsure how teamwork is...
No questions at this time.
I do some many thing that I am struggling with identifying my "lane".
How do you navigate a conversation with your manager, if you wanted to drastically change your career path after being in a company for a few years?
what if there are not a lot of jobs for the kind of thing that you like or want to do?
Not yet but I am sure I will!
If you have multiple potential paths, how can one best decide? what frameworks can be used to make that decision?
Don't have one at the moment.
How to access a new role with confidence
How is it best to address a long break (16 years as a stay at home parent)? Up front on the resume, put it in a cover letter, wait until they ask? I have a mechanical engineering degree and...
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