Podcast
Looking for a new job or want to move up in your company? Lesa teaches you the tools and strategies you need to land your dream job, increase your promotability, and successfully navigate your career.
082: Answering the "Tell Me About Yourself" Interview Question
This month will all be about the job interview. Today, let’s dive into the “tell me about yourself” question. This one is super important, because if it is asked it is the first question.
083: Answering the Dreaded "Strengths" and "Weaknesses" Interview Questions
This month we’re covering some of the most difficult aspects of the job interview. Last week we covered the “tell me about yourself” question, and today we’re diving into the “strengths” and “weaknesses” questions.
084: Prepping for the Behavioral Interview
All this month, we’re covering the job interview. So far, we’ve talked about how to answer the “tell me about yourself,” “what are your greatest strengths,” and “what is your greatest weakness” questions. Today, let’s dive into the behavioral interview.
085: Developing Your Questions to Ask the Interviewer
All this month, we’ve been diving into the job interview including how to answer difficult questions and how to prepare for a behavioral interview. Today we’re talking about the questions you can ask the interviewer.
086: How to Succeed in the First 90 Days of a New Job (with Robert Moment)
Starting any new job can be an exciting, yet stressful experience. However, this doesn’t mean that you have an impossible task in front of you. There are a number of tactics and strategies that you can leverage to start your new job on the best foot.
087: How to Find Work in the US as a Foreign National
There’s nothing US citizens should do in their job search that foreign nationals shouldn’t do. There is, however, another layer (or perhaps a few additional layers) that foreign nationals should consider when searching and applying for jobs.
088: Job Passion, Proficiency, and Profitability
There are three basic needs that every person has in order for their job to be fulfilling. Of course, you probably have additional ones, but I want to focus on these three basics in today’s episode.
089: Career Coaching vs. Life Coaching
I’ve gotten questions lately about what I do as career coach…and they ask if I am a life coach. It occurred to me that there are some similarities and distinct differences between career coaching and life coaching, and I thought I would educate you, dear listeners.
090: Making a Career Transition (Interview with Lauren Gerard)
This week's episode is with Lauren Gerard, a client I worked with in 2018. Hear how she found her new job, and how she's enjoying her new position.
091: Entrepreneurial Conversation with Chirag Shah
This week's podcast is an interview with Tallahassee entrepreneur Chirag Shah, owner of The Current Agency - a digital and creative marketing agency. We talk about his genesis as an entrepreneur, the challenges (and rewards) he's faced as an entrepreneur, how he has built his team through internships, and his plans for the future.
092: Gratitude vs. Wanting More
Sometimes we think we have to be dissatisfied with our current circumstances in order to want something different. I think there’s a balance to be found between being grateful for what you have, and yet wanting more for your life.
093: Job Searching in a Different City
Searching for jobs is hard enough already. Add in the possibility of working in another city makes the job hunt feel even more daunting. In this podcast, I talk about additional layer of challenge involved in looking for a job in another city.
094: The New Breed of Entrepreneur
This week, I interview Ron Frazier, one of two Entrepreneurs-in-Residence at Florida State University's Jim Moran School of Entrepreneurship. We talk about his entrepreneurial journey, the innovative curriculum for FSU's entrepreneurship majors, some of the exciting businesses they have started as students, and where they've gone after graduation.
218: A Dozen Career Management Tips for 2022
Today, I’m sharing my 12 top career management tips for 2022. For this episode, I pulled information from Workitdaily.com and monstergulf.com.
095: Career Coaches and Resume Writers - How to Choose
I’m getting a lot of questions from people about how to navigate the sea of resume writers and career coaches out there. If I were you, I would be confused about whether I even needed a professional resume writer or a career coach
096: What Your University Career Center Can Do For You...and its Limitations
Today, we’re talking about university career centers. I know this episode will be controversial for some, so I’d love to hear feedback, especially from those of you who either work at, or have used the services of, a university career center.
097: Should I Be Connecting with Recruiters?
People ask me if they should be connecting with recruiters as part of their job search strategy. There are two primary types of recruiters, with some other flavors thrown in the mix, that I talk more about in this podcast episode.
098: Bored at Work? Here's the Antidote
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about boredom at work. In this podcast episode, I talk about ways to mix up routine tasks and how to make them more engaging.
099: Don't Make these Fatal Interview Mistakes
I do a lot of interview coaching with my clients. In this podcast episode, I want to talk about the fatal ways in which candidates show up improperly for the job interview.
217: How to Position Yourself as a Star Performer
This week, we’re talking about how to position yourself as a star performer. According to the book The Emotionally Intelligent Workplace by Cherniss and Goleman, there are several key competencies of Star Performers. A Star Performer is defined as someone who is in the top 10% of performance. The goal is not to be a Star in every competency in each of these clusters, but to have a good balance of competencies across the four clusters.
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