Past event

Assess Your Capabilities and Pursue Upskilling to Forge Your Career Pivot

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…

Virtual Free to attend
Assess Your Capabilities and Pursue Upskilling to Forge Your Career Pivot

About this session

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.

  • How do I know if this role is a fit for me? How do I know if I’m right for this role?
  • How do I break into the path I want? Can I land the role?
  • Assessing feasibility of making a career pivot
  • Objectively assessing skillset & deciding on upskilling opportunities
  • Making your career pivot a breeze by leveraging the underrated bullet: strong career clarity

Meet the speaker

Rachel Serwetz

Rachel Serwetz

Career Exploration Coach

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.

About PowerToFly

The bridge between professionals and the companies building what's next.

PowerToFly connects talent, community groups, and industry leaders in one platform. Meet hiring managers, recruiters, and peers from anywhere — and with our virtual events and exclusive career content, hone your skills and grow your network all in one place.

Community
1.1M+ Professionals across every industry, domain, and geography, ready to contribute wherever they're needed.
Events hosted
2,000+ In partnership with employers across every industry.
Verified experts
380K+ Specialists in healthcare, law, finance, and more, vetted and ready.
Countries
190 A truly global community, so you can connect and grow your network without borders.
Women & BIPOC
75%+ More perspectives across the network means better outcomes for everyone.
Years building
12+ Since 2014, building infrastructure for professionals to do meaningful work.

More Chat & Learns

See all events →
November 13, 2026
Chat & learn

Beyond the Offer: Negotiating Your Value Throughout Your Career

Negotiation doesn't end once you accept a job offer, it's something that shows up again and again throughout a career, from performance reviews to promotions to the moment you decide it's time for something new. Join ICF Certified Career and Executive Leadership Coach Cristina Costa for a conversation that looks at…

Cristina Costa
Cristina Costa
Register →
December 2, 2026
Chat & learn

AI for Career Growth: Practical Job-Search Tools, In-Demand Skills, and Career Strategies for Experienced Professionals

AI is changing how people learn, work, and grow their careers, and it’s never too late to start building those skills. Join PowerToFly and Dassault Systèmes for a practical conversation & workship on how experienced professionals can build AI skills, use AI tools to strengthen their job search, and keep their careers…

Sara Porter Noelle D'Agostino Kristen Flanagan
3 speakers
Register →
December 10, 2026
Chat & learn

DESIGN Your Lifestyle Medicine Makeover: Creating Small, Sustainable Habit Changes that Transform Your Health & Optimize Your Performance

Meet Melyssa Allen, Founder & CEO of Melyssa with a WHY, LLC, who's here to prove that getting healthy doesn't have to be miserable. She's a double board-certified lifestyle medicine coach, author of Healthy Living Doesn't Have to SUCK, and someone who mixes real science with a genuinely fun teaching style so habit…

Melyssa Allen
Melyssa Allen
Register →