Create Your Unicorn Career with Alaina Levine

The topic of discussion for this week’s episode is creating your unicorn career. Today we have Alaina Levine on the show! Alaina, who is an award-winning professional speaker, STEM career coach, TEDx speaker, science journalist, and corporate comedian, is here to talk about how to create a career unique to you. Alaina is dropping gems this entire episode. She’s sharing what a unicorn career is, skills required to create a unicorn career and how essential networking is in the career planning process.  If you’re trying to create a career you absolutely love while using all your skills and interests, this episode is for you.

Alaina G. Levine is an award-winning professional speaker, STEM career coach, TEDx speaker, science journalist, and corporate comedian. Her book, Networking for Nerds (Wiley, 2015), beat out Einstein (really!) for the honor of being named a Top 5 Book of 2015 by Physics Today. As President of Quantum Success Solutions, LLC, she is a prolific speaker & writer on career development & professional advancement for scientists, engineers, and communicators. She has delivered over 850 keynotes and webinars for clients in the US, EU, Mexico, Canada, Africa, Asia, & South America (including over 100 gigs in 2020), & has written over 450 articles in publications like Science, Nature, Scientific American, National Geographic News Watch, World Economic Forum, & Smithsonian. She also writes “Your Unicorn Career”, a careers column for ScienceCareers about finding your professional bliss. As a career coach and consultant, she has helped 100s of clients in diverse fields, professions, industries, and regions create and land their own Unicorn Career.About Alaina G. Levine