Latest Mid-career professional Podcast Episodes
Episode 95: Red Flags in the Job Search Process
Real Job Talk - June 11, 2024 19:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsWe’re talking from experience about red flags, especially in the job search process, where your gut fits into decision making and how to listen for those flags. Kat tells her story from 20 years ago about her first HR Leadership role where she joined a company working for a husband and wife team....
Episode 94: Golden Handcuffs- What Do I Do?
Real Job Talk - February 20, 2024 14:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsWe have a letter! One of our listeners wrote to us with a question. They are stuck with what to do with their golden hancuffs. Their current employer was acquired by a larger company. The company wants them to stay, and has given them a year-long series of bonuses and severance if they stay long ...
Episode 93: How to Handle Your Company Card
Real Job Talk - December 05, 2023 21:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsToday we’re talking about all things Company-Paid. We're here to help you understand and navigate the world of expenses. Here are the Real Job Talk guidelines for using your company credit card. Guideline 1: Look at your company handbook/rulebook and familiarize yourself with the company’s polici...
Episode 92: This Was All An Accident with Kat Kibben
Real Job Talk - October 18, 2023 15:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsWelcome back to Real Job Talk, Kat Kibben! Kat (pronouns they/them) is the founder of Three Ears Media, a speaker, advocate, and leader in the HR space around inclusivity and job descriptions. We're really pleased to have Kat join us for a second time on the podcast. (Check out their first appear...
Episode 91: Networking with a Purpose with Robert Gilbreath
Real Job Talk - August 28, 2023 13:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsWelcome to Real Job Talk Robert Gilbreath! Robert talks to us about his career journey as a solopreneur, entrepreneur, and an employee and how he treats each role like he’s the owner of the company. Robert Gilbreath is an experienced solopreneur and entrepreneur, and joins the show to share his i...
Episode 90: Advance Your Career with Kelli Thompson
Real Job Talk - June 16, 2023 14:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsWelcome to Kelli Thompson! Kelli is a speaker, coach, author, and HR executive who left the corporate world to pursue her passion for helping women advance their careers. She is driven to help more women make it to the board room, advance their careers, and bring their best, most authentic selves...
Episode 89: Feedback Conversations at Work
Real Job Talk - May 04, 2023 01:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsToday we're talking about giving feedback at work. In talking with managers at work, Liz encouraged people to ask their people how they wanted to get feedback and how to deliver news positive and negative. Feedback, when given in a timely and kind manner, can be a gift. But often we forget key st...
Episode 88: Layoffs and Severance -- What Should You Know?
Real Job Talk - February 27, 2023 16:15 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsWe talk about a topic that has come up extensively over the last few months -- severance packages. What are they? What aren't they? Why do they exist? What do you do when you get them? Our goal is to answer all of the questions we get around them to help you learn and be prepared if you’re faced...
Episode 87: Change in Careers with Mpume Ncube-Daka
Real Job Talk - January 13, 2023 14:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsLiz and Kat Zoom in with Mpume Ncube-Daka all the way from South Africa to talk about change conversations. Mpume works with people to drive the best decisions in their growth and development. She is passionate about personal and professional development and learning through change. Mpume thought...
Episode 86: How to avoid job abandonment
Real Job Talk - November 30, 2022 02:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsToday we’re talking about job abandonment -- something we’ve each seen a handful of times in our corporate careers. (Kat saw it more with people working in retail.) We want you to know what job abandonment is, how to avoid it, and what the ripple effect can be when someone abandons their job. Wha...
Episode 85: Personal Branding and Resume Strategies with Angela Loeb
Real Job Talk - October 04, 2022 13:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsWelcome to Real Job Talk, Angela Loeb! We refer our clients who need their resumes done to Angela because she literally wrote the book(s) on resumes and job searching. Angela started out helping people to get into beauty school- she interviewed people and helped them get into classes. Angela got ...
Episode 84: Your company was acquired! Now what?
Real Job Talk - August 30, 2022 14:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsIn this episode we advise on what to do when your company gets acquired. Most of us don’t know if our company is going to change structure, ownership, or leadership, so when something big is announced it can be a bit shocking and can cause us to ask, “What happens to me?” What do you do that day?...
Episode 83: Top Secret! Taking about NDAs
Real Job Talk - June 28, 2022 13:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsTop secret! We’re talking about NDAs, non-disclosure agreements. What’s an NDA? It’s an agreement between you and the company saying that you won’t share information about the company outside of the company. These are shared whether you’re an employee or a contractor. Sometimes you sign an NDA wh...
Episode 82: Truth in Background Checks
Real Job Talk - May 17, 2022 16:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsToday we’re talking about background checks. Background checks are a standard piece of company’s hiring processes. The company takes the resume and verifies education, employment, and criminal records. Sometimes they also do things like drug tests. Both of us have had to rescind offers or elimina...
Episode 81: Managing Gen Z and intergenerational communication with Dr Carrie Root
Real Job Talk - April 12, 2022 13:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsWelcome to Dr. Carrie Root, who joins us to share her book The Other Soft Skill that teaches about intergenerational communication and connection. Carrie has had a number of career twists and turns, breaking barriers as an IT consultant with the Navy and now as an educational consultant. Carrie t...
Episode 80: Millennial Management with Emily Tsitrian
Real Job Talk - February 22, 2022 14:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsWelcome to Professional Service Manager and author of the new book Make Me The Boss: Surviving as a Millenial Manager in the Corporate World, Emily Tsitrian! We talked with Emily about being a “newer career” manager, why she wrote her book, and lessons she learned along the way. We asked Emily ho...
Episode 79: Be Prepared for Networking!
Real Job Talk - January 18, 2022 15:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsIn this episode we’re taking a lesson from something that happened to Liz and using it to help people be prepared for networking meetings, especially when networking with executives. Liz posted on Linkedin about how her company is hiring, why it's great to work there, and told people to sign up ...
Episode 78: Career Rehab with Kanika Tolver
Real Job Talk - January 04, 2022 14:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsWelcome to Kanika Tolver, speaker, CEO/founder, and author of Career Rehab. Kanika is a tech program manager who has build a business around helping people find and get the jobs they really want and will really love. Kanika inspires people around the globe to pursue their dreams, build their pers...
Episode 77: Bereavement Leave
Real Job Talk - December 21, 2021 15:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsToday we’re talking about bereavement and bereavement leave and what to do when you need to take bereavement. Many companies offer very little bereavement leave. A leae of 3 days for a close loved one is typical, which we think is crazy, as our stance is that most people will not be able to come ...
Episode 76: Follow Your Path with Dr Carol Parker Walsh
Real Job Talk - December 08, 2021 18:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsToday we’re welcoming Dr. Carol Parker Walsh, whose tagline we love: she helps high-achieving professional women at midlife courageously design a career, brand & life they love. Carol is a coach, a speaker, best-selling author and business owner. Carol followed her path to go to school, get degr...
Episode 75: How to give notice at a new job
Real Job Talk - November 23, 2021 18:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsWe have a listener question!!! We got a great email from a global listener that we had to record right away (we sent them the raw recording). The letter was as follows: Hi ladies I have recently discovered this podcast and it has already helped me so much. I am a lawyer. I began working at a firm...
Episode 74: New Job Checklist
Real Job Talk - November 09, 2021 14:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsYou're starting a new job. Congrats! OK, now what's next? Every company does onboarding differently: some bigger companies tend to have more structured onboarding and some start-ups less so. HR onboarding is more about paperwork, but the true onboarding that we are talking about is how the existi...
Episode 73: Job search and resume tips from a recruiter - with Michele Olivier
Real Job Talk - October 26, 2021 13:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsWelcome Michele, resume coach, recruiter, and LI influencer extraordinaire. Michele is a seasoned global HR professional who is the owner of O&H Consulting. We brought Michele to RJT to talk about resumes, job searches and to give insider tips around job seeking. Michele’s big picture resume rule...
Episode 72: Divisiveness at work
Real Job Talk - October 12, 2021 13:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsThis week we talk about divisiveness at work. Divisive opinions at work are an example of divisiveness in the world ... people seem to be on one side or the other of so many issues, and we can’t remember a time when people have been so polarized. We love the saying “Let’s agree to disagree." -- t...
Episode 71: When a Colleague Quits
Real Job Talk - September 28, 2021 13:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsWe have a letter from a listener who doesn’t think they reacted properly when a colleague quit. They reacted with a big “Really? Why? I thought you liked it here!?!” and then felt like a bad colleague when the person looked visibly uncomfortable and showed them that they’d overstepped. For the co...
Episode 70: Realities of working parents with Whitney Casares
Real Job Talk - September 14, 2021 13:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsWelcome to Real Job Talk, Whitney Casares- the author of the Working Mom Blueprint, pediatrician, mom, and supporter of moms in the workplace through her community at www.modernmommydoc.com. We invited Whitney to join us to talk about the realities of being a working mom, and also to discuss how ...
Episode 69: Getting Productive with Don Khouri
Real Job Talk - August 31, 2021 13:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsWelcome, Don Khouri! Don is a PhD in Human and Organization Systems who works with leaders and individual contributors to build their presence, improve communication, and be more productive. It’s this last area where we’ve asked Don to join us and talk about his book, When to Say YES (https://do...
Episode 68: Going Back to the Office
Real Job Talk - August 17, 2021 13:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsThis episode is discussing the complex question of going back into the office as companies are beginning to open up their offices and asking workers to return. We talk about options around going back to work, questions to ask, obstacles, and how to communicate with your team around your availabil...
Episode 67: Overcoming Fear and Doubt in your Career
Real Job Talk - August 03, 2021 13:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsFear and doubt come in so many forms, including imposter syndrome, self-deprecation, and holding yourself back in other ways. We’re here to talk about how to overcome these things in the workplace. Kat comes from a position of normalizing fear and doubt and accepting them as a part of the human e...
Episode 66: Being a Woman in Tech with Kat Cosgrove
Real Job Talk - July 13, 2021 13:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsWelcome to Real Job Talk, Kat Cosgrove, Staff Developer Advocate from Pulumi. We invited Kat to join us to talk about her experience as a technical woman in the technology industry. After a conference, Kat tweeted about being hit on in the virtual hallways, and Liz and Kat Troyer talked about how...
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