Episode 57. Prep, Push, Pivot: Essential Strategies To Find A New Job & Advance Your Career – Octavia Goredema

<p>Looking for practical strategies and ideas to improve your CV/ resume, find a new job, negotiate a pay rise and advance in your career? Octavia Gordema, career coach & author, shared her insights about this and much more on Episode 57 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast.</p> <p>In this episode, we will learn about:</p> <p>Overcoming her limiting beliefs to go to university,</p> <p>How she pursued her interests to work in PR & Communication,</p> <p>The importance of having big dreams to inspire you,</p> <p>How to manage being laid off and steps to bounce back,</p> <p>Strategies to help your job search,</p> <p>How 2nd & 3rd order connections can potentially help your job search much more than direct connections so don’t be afraid to reach out,</p> <p>Octavia’s top 3 CV tips,</p> <p>Keeping a current record of your achievements as it’s easy to forget relevant achievements,</p> <p>How content creation can build your brand & profile,</p> <p>Not being afraid to walk away from a job if things are not working out but have a plan,</p> <p>Potential strategies to use when negotiating a pay rise and</p> <p>Managing “job envy”.</p> <p>Octavia Goredema MBE is a career coach and the founder of Twenty Ten Agency. Her mission is to help underrepresented professionals advance their careers.</p> <p>Octavia is the author of PREP, PUSH, PIVOT: Essential Career Strategies for Underrepresented Women, published by Wiley. She has coached leaders at renowned companies including Google, American Airlines, Tinder, General Motors, Nike, and Dow Jones. A dual US-UK citizen, Octavia was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) by the Queen in recognition of her work.</p> <p>Octavia is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, where she leads the Gender Equity network in the United States.</p> <p>Octavia told me if you lose your job or are laid off, "the first thing I would tell anyone to do is to take time to process how they feel, whether it's frustration, anger, upset, confusion … talk to somebody as you are doing t