Career Coach and Futurist
Career Coach and Futurist
🚫 The Hidden Gatekeeper of Your Career Here’s a statistic that’ll make your coffee taste bitter: 75% of resumes never reach human eyes. Let that sink in for a moment. Three-quarters of the resumes floating around in digital hiring land are being rejected by robots before any actual human gets to appreciate your carefully crafted …
🚀 The Future-Ready Professional (And Why Most of Us Aren’t) Let me be brutally honest with you: Traditional career coaching is like trying to navigate with a printed MapQuest map from 1995 while driving through a city that’s being rebuilt in real-time. I’ve been watching professionals get blindsided by AI disruption, scramble to adapt to …
Are We Doomed? A Futurist Ponders It’s easy to see how workers today can form a dystopian vision of further wealth inequality and total domination of the global sphere by the tech bros and dirty politicians and lobbyists. (See Mountainhead movie, portraying a few billionaires using global disasters to get even richer.) You don’t need …
You know that feeling when you wake up at 3 AM and suddenly wonder what the hell you’re doing with your life? When everything you’ve built feels like a house of cards, and you can’t shake the nagging voice asking, “Is this it?” Welcome to the existential crisis club, darling. You’re not losing your mind—you’re …
30 second summary In today’s tough job market, reaching career goals relies not just on your skills, but also on who you know. Networking is all about making and maintaining professional connections. It has become a vital way for people to find their dream jobs. Whether you just finished school and want your first job, …
At a point in your career the days will start to run together and you wonder what you are still doing on this path. Are you still the main character in your life or have you just been sticking to someone else’s script? You may be an NPC (Non-Player character)! Sometimes it can really feel …
For the past month, I and my fellow 80,000 colleagues are in limbo. The news that our company is about to lay off 7% of us leaked, and then was confirmed in the earnings report call. We have had a month to wait to hear which ones of us will be affected, and we find …
Tired of staring at your own face in video calls all day? Learn about virtual filters and Zoom dysmorphia from a career and branding coach.
The experience of remaining “on board” at work after others have been let go may be like being a pirate on a vast ship. Some of your best mates are gone, you don’t know where the ship is headed next, or whether you want to be on board at a place like this. Some of …
Each time I’ve been laid off, I have struggled for some time to make some sense out of what happened. Was it me failing to achieve expectations or did my number come up in the layoff roulette? Often you are given a vague script about your role no longer fitting the company’s direction, given heaps …