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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.
018: How to Get That Internal Promotion
Are you effectively managing your career? Today’s topic will help tremendously with your efforts, as I talk about how to position yourself for internal promotions.
019: Brilliant Networking for Brilliant People
Today, I want to cover my formula for how to network in a way that doesn’t leave you feeling like a barnacle. The people who listen to this podcast are brilliant people, so this episode is about brilliant networking for brilliant people.
020: Articulating Your Brand on LinkedIn
LinkedIn shouldn’t be a cut-and-paste of your resume. While still a business conversation, it should be less formal than your resume. In today’s podcast episode, I’ll be sharing five ways to articulate your brand on LinkedIn.
021: Taking Care of You During a Job Transition
Whether you have chosen to leave a position or that decision has been made for you, job changes can be one of life’s most stressful experiences. Today, we’re talking about managing the mental, physical, social, and spiritual aspects of a job transition.
022: Managing Relationships at Work
Here’s the main message I want to give you today: You can’t change anyone else. If you’re having difficulties with relationships at work, the only control you have in any situation is how you respond.
023: Attitude Check During the Job Search
There are lots of rejections inherent in the job search. It’s important to check your attitude—your thoughts about yourself—throughout the job search. In today’s podcast episode, I offer three suggestions for maintaining a positive attitude throughout the duration of your job search.
228: How to Write an Outstanding LinkedIn Profile
Increasingly, LinkedIn is a crucial part of the hiring process. Whether employers are vetting you for a position you’ve applied for or seeking out candidates with the credentials they require, they ARE most definitely looking at your LI profile. Today, we’re specifically covering strategies for writing an outstanding LI headline. This is the “tag line” that goes directly underneath your name at the top of your profile – and it is prime real estate.
024: Increasing Your Value to Your Employer
Today’s guest is Jane Springer, life and style coach. We’re talking about how to increase the value you bring to your employer. Our discussion centers around the thought model developed by Brooke Castillo of The Life Coach School.
025: Career Q&A with College Students (Part 1)
This week’s and next week’s podcasts will focus on a Q&A session I had with two college students. They fired questions at me that are on their minds, as well as career-related questions their friends wanted to ask.
026: Career Q&A with College Students (Part 2)
This week’s podcast episode is part 2 of my Q&A session with two Florida State University students, Melizza Black and Jolana Alonso.
027: Choosing Your Career Path for Graduating College Students
No one is expected to immediately know what they want to do in life. There are three main perspectives I want to share in this week’s podcast episode with upcoming (or recent) college graduates related to their career and what to keep in mind when thinking about their next steps.
028: Know the Product You Are Selling (You) for Graduating College Students
Searching for the right job is tricky for any person, especially if they’re thrown into the real word right out of college. There are three main perspectives I want to share in today’s podcast episode with upcoming (or recent) college graduates related to their first “real” job search.
029: Interview with Human Resources Executive
This week's podcast features an interview with human resources executive Gloria Reed, discussing the primary missteps she sees recent college graduates making in their first job out of college.
030: Active vs. Passive Job Search Strategies
For many people, their entire job search strategy is looking at job boards. While this strategy is somewhat effective for entry-level positions, it is a dangerous habit to get in to. In today’s podcast episode, I go over the different strategies of active and passive job search, and discuss how some approaches might seem more appealing.
227: Do You Need Additional Education or Credentials to Be Marketable? How to Know and What to Do
In this weirdest-of-all-possible-weird employment climates, a number of clients and prospects have reached out to ask about the need for additional education or credentials. I want to talk about this today in a way that, hopefully, will make it obvious for you to know the answer for yourself.
031: LinkedIn Tips for Entry-Level Job Seekers
If you haven’t created a LinkedIn profile yet, that has to be Step #1. We’ll talk in detail about the critical elements of a Search Engine Optimized LI profile in a future podcast, but today, let me give you a few quick pointers.
032: It May Not Be Your Dream Job, But…
In today’s podcast episode, I want to put into perspective your first job out of college. I also want to talk about getting your foot in the door and the steps you should take in your career development path.
033: Resume Reconstruction Camp
Most resumes I see, from candidates at all stages in their career, are what I call “data sheets.” In today’s podcast episode, I share some of the common flaws when constructing a resume, and how to instead present your accomplishments in an effective manner.
034: How to Be Indispensable at Work
Circumstances are those things in your life over which you have no immediate control. The message I want you to hear in today’s podcast episode is that you have the option of making yourself indispensable at work, no matter the job you’re in or the circumstances surrounding that job.
035: Emotional Adulthood at Work
Yep, my dear Millennials, it’s time to be an adult at work. In today’s podcast episode, I discuss the difference between emotional adulthood and emotional childhood in the workplace, and how to properly express your emotions in a professional setting.
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