BE Agile: Career Pivots are Possible!

Written By Barbara Ellen Leicht

~ But how do I actually 🌱 Grow + Pivot Careers? ~

  1. First, A career pivot is 100% attainable

  2. Second, long-term it is more lucrative

  3. Third, the answer is quite simple!!!

✨ Transferrable Skills ✨

We all have them. They are the tasks we do + characteristics we have that apply to many jobs, such as:

  1. Coordinating

  2. Problem solving

  3. Decision making

  4. Communicating

  5. Collaborating

We’re just not always aware of them. Or if we are, we don’t always have the confidence to market them.

✨ Enter your Mindset Career Coach. That’s Me! ✨

Coaching with me looks like unearthing (that’s a term I created) your core accomplishments 💗 The everyday hidden gems you do, without even realizing it … similar to blinking + breathing. 

✨ Think about it: what happens when you stop blinking + breathing???

If you stop doing the autopilot—yet very significant—core work that you do everday: everything else stops too.

✨ Interested in practicing a bit now? Excellent! ✨

🌱 Brainstorm 5 core skills you have

🌱 Look at a job description of interest

🌱 Find the synonyms 

That’s you 1st step in unearthing Transferrable Skills. For example?? As a former teacher and successful career pivot’er …

✨ I had to rebrand and speak like professionals within my new field, so:

🌱 Facilitate -> Instruct

🌱 Differentiate -> Customize or Tailor

🌱 Collaborate -> Teamwork

✨ Guess what else?? This makes customizing the resume easier too! But that’s a #ProTip for another day.

Opportunities await! ✨ Let’s chat

~ learn more 🌱 $30, 30 min career consult ~

📸: Photo Credit

Barbara Ellen Leicht

Barbara Ellen Leicht, MSEd, is a “Former Teacher, Forever Educator,” Trauma Survivor turned Thriver, and  Mindset Career Coach with 14+ years’ expertise. She specializes in career pivots, higher education, and authentic and strategic relationship building.

Transforming her invisible disabilities into superpowers, Barbara leverages a strengths-based, person-centered, trauma-informed approach to delivering research-backed Corporate Trainings and virtual Career Coaching. On this journey, Barbara has been fortunate to empower 1,000s of diverse job seekers and career pivot’ers.

In fact, during her first full year in business, Barbara helped job seekers negotiate a cumulative of $50k in increased income. Her holistic approach to career coaching helps clients land in a fraction-of-the-time it typically takes.

Barbara’s philosophy—BE Excellent • BE Energized • BE Endlessly You—emphasizes quality fit, for quality work, with quality-of-life. Cheers to being your best you! ✨

https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbaraellenleicht/
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