Babe, just be a beginner

Our first responder this week is here to help ease the nerves around one of life’s biggest hurdles: a career change. Victoria Morneau, a career strategist and founder of Career Development 101, walks us through our own career worries and reminds us that our career choices can, and maybe should, match the season of life that we are in. Victoria offers questions to ask yourself when thinking about a shift in your career, how our values should guide our job searches, and that we all have our own personal brand.

4:00 - How Victoria became a personal branding and career strategist

9:14 - How personal branding is for everyone

10:49 - Commonalities amongst those looking for assistance with their careers

13:54 - Questions those hoping to make a career shift should be asking themselves

18:29 - Applying your values and interests into your job search

21:39 - How Victoria would approach our individual career challenges

30:28 - The problem with pensions

35:24 - Words of wisdom when it comes to our relationships with our careers

41:34 - Victoria’s 3 final tips

43:06 - Services she offers and where you can find her

44:27 - How Victoria helped a near retiree realize her value after being laid off

Resources:

Career Development 101: https://www.careerdevelopment101.ca/about-1

Follow Victoria on IG: https://www.instagram.com/careerdevelopment101/

Career coach recommendations for those transitioning out of teaching: https://www.instagram.com/teachercareercoach/
https://www.instagram.com/holly.acre/
https://www.instagram.com/teachertransition/

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