259: How to Figure Out Your Career, with Scott Anthony Barlow

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Scott Anthony Barlow: Happen to Your Career Scott Anthony Barlow is the Founder of Happen to Your Career. He’s been featured on CNBC, Yahoo, CareerBuilder, Fast Company and Huffington Post and various colleges and universities as a top expert on career happiness. He's held roles executive roles in human resources, business development, and career coaching. Scott is the host of the Happen to Your Career podcast, featuring the career stories of many successful professionals. His team and him have worked with over 25,000 people to help them stop settling, find their signature strengths, and start doing meaningful work they are enamored with. In this conversation, Scott and I explore common career misconceptions, how framing your career around your strengths is key, and tools and assessments like StrengthsFinder that will support you. Key Points Common career misperceptions: You need to have it all figured out at the start You should focus on getting better at the things you’re not good at It takes a ton of experience to move into the job you want Framing a career around your strengths is key. If you had to work extremely hard to get good at something, it’s probably not a true strength. There are exercises and assessments like StrengthsFinder (also known as CliftonStrengths) that you can participate in to help you gain clarity on the above. Resources Mentioned Finding the Career That Fits You (Scott’s FREE 8-Day Video Course)* The Ultimate Guide to Using Your Strengths to Get Hired* How To Become a Career Coach* Scott interviewing Dave on why your career is not a straight line StrengthsFinder training for individuals and teams* (use code CFL10 for a 10% tuition discount) StrengthsFinder 2.0 Related Episodes The Value of the StrengthsFinder Assessment, with Steve Dosier (episode 89) How to Interpret Your StrengthsFinder and CliftonStrengths Results, with Steve Dosier (episode 90) The Secret To Happiness (episode 134) Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	What do you do when you're not sure what the next step is in your career?
0:04.0	On today's episode, the steps you can take to begin to figure that out.
0:08.0	This is Coaching for Leaders, Episode 259.
0:12.0	Produced by Innovate Learning. Episode 259.
0:13.0	Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.
0:19.0	Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm
0:27.3	your host Dave Stahoviac. Leaders aren't born, they're made.
0:33.0	And this weekly show will give you access to the best thinkers, resources, and actions to develop your leadership skills.
0:42.0	And I'm really glad you tuned in today.
0:43.8	If it's for the first time, welcome.
0:45.9	If you've listened many times,
0:47.6	one of the things that I know you've probably
0:49.8	been thinking about is,
0:51.8	how do you continue to advance and develop and support your own
0:56.2	career as leaders it is our responsibility of course to be thinking about the
1:01.4	careers of the people that we work with, the people that we have the
1:04.7	privilege to lead. And I know, and speaking with many people in our community, one of the things
1:09.8	that's often top of mind for us too is how do we do that good work for ourselves as well
1:15.6	and that's why I'm really glad to welcome today's guest who probably more than
1:22.2	anyone we've ever had on the show has a very unique and
1:25.8	broad perspective on exactly what kinds of things the people out there who are
1:31.2	doing the best work around building their careers are doing.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dave Stachowiak, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Dave Stachowiak and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.