535: How to Conquer Doubt and Pursue New Career Opportunities with Nicolle Merrill
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 17 January 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Nicolle Merrill shares practical tips for changing careers--and beating the doubt that comes with it.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) Why it’s OK to not have it figured out.
2) Powerful, clarifying questions for charting a new career path.
3) Smart alternatives to a second degree.
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— ABOUT NICOLLE —
Four-time career-changer Nicolle Merrill excels in professional reinvention. A liberal arts graduate, she has written for Four Seasons and National Geographic private jet tours, taught digital communication skills to global executives, and sold adventure travel programs in New Zealand. As the former Associate Director of the Career Development Office At Yale School of Management, she coached hundreds of MBA students and professionals through all phases of their career transitions. Nicolle currently freelances as a conversation designer and analyst at an artificial intelligence startup. Her human-centered approach to career change, combined with a relentless curiosity about emerging career trends, has led to speaking engagements across the US, as well as in Canada and Ireland.
• Nicolle’s book: Punch Doubt in the Face: How to Upskill, Change Careers, and Beat the Robots
• Nicole’s LinkedIn: Nicolle Merrill
• Nicolle’s podcast: 50 Conversations
• Nicole’s Twitter: @pdxnicolle
• Nicolle’s blog: FutureSkills.blog
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Article: “Cross-Silo Leadership”
• Article: "Artificial Intelligence: The Robots Are Now Hiring"
• Website: Udemy
• Website: Coursera
• Website: Udacity
• Website: Wix
• Book: Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age by Dr. Sherry Turkle
• Previous episode: 167: How to Love Your Work…and Get Work You Love with Nick Campbell
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McKitis. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello, thanks for joining us here for episode 535 with Nicole Merrill. |
| 0:23.0 | Nicole is sharing how you can shake off the doubt that can come |
| 0:27.4 | when you're starting to consider new careers. |
| 0:29.1 | You'll learn one, why it's okay not to have it figured out. |
| 0:32.2 | Two, a better way to do informational interviewing, |
| 0:34.8 | and three, the questions that surface your ideal career opportunities. |
| 0:38.9 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript |
| 0:40.9 | or the links to items we've referenced. It's on over at all |
| 0:43.0 | submit your job.com slash F-435. Now here's Nicole's story. Four-time |
| 0:48.1 | career changer, Nicole Merrill excels in professional reinvention. A |
| 0:51.5 | liberal arts graduate, she has written for four seasons and National Geographic private jet tours, taught digital communication skills to global executives, and sold adventure travel programs in New Zealand. |
| 1:01.0 | As the former Associate Director of the Career Development Office |
| 1:04.6 | at Yale School of Management, she coached hundreds of NBA students and professionals |
| 1:09.5 | through all phases of their career transitions. |
| 1:11.7 | Nicole currently freelances as a conversation designer and analyst at artificial |
| 1:16.7 | intelligence startup. |
| 1:17.7 | Her human-centered approach to career change combined with a relentless curiosity about emerging |
| 1:22.3 | career trends has led to speak engagements across the US |
| 1:25.3 | as well as Canada and Ireland. |
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