84. Career Q&A with Katie Burke
Ali on the Run Show
Ali Feller
4.9 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2018
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
"It's never too late to do what you wanted to do growing up. But it's not going to come easy, and no one's going to hand it to you." —Katie Burke
Katie Burke is the Chief People Officer at HubSpot, a marketing software company in Boston that employs more than 2,300 people worldwide. Of those 2,300, Katie was the company's first female to land a spot in the c-suite. (Today, 45 percent of the company's vice presidents are women.) And on this episode, Katie is answering all of your career-related questions! From negotiating raises and promotions to navigating tricky bosses, office politics, and big career changes, Katie has brilliant advice for all of it. You're going to want to take notes for this one!
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What you'll get on this episode:
- Katie talks about her upcoming sabbatical and how she plans to spend it (1:30)
- Katie's best advice for building and strengthening confidence (3:10)
- Katie's take on "being nice" (5:00)
- What to know about making a career change (9:00)
- What are the top three things that make a resume stand out? (13:00)
- Do you really need to know someone to get a job at a company? (14:00)
- What should an awesome cover letter look like? (15:00)
- Applying for more than one job or role at a company: Yay or nay? (16:00)
- How to explain a gap in employment to be a stay-at-home parent (16:30)
- How do I know what I'm worth? (18:20)
- How to negotiate your salary (21:25)
- Everything to know about raises (25:15)
- Maternity leave: When to tell your boss and how to negotiate the terms (28:00)
- How not to get talked over or disrespected during meetings (34:20)
- How to handle an unresponsive, disengaged boss (36:25)
- What to do when you and your friend are both up for the same job or promotion (38:00)
- What to do when you love your job and field, but everyone around you is miserable (39:30)
- How to apply for a different role within your current company, and when to tell your manager (42:10)
- How to be a standout employee during your first 30–90 days at a new job (44:15)
- How to deal with insecurity at a new job (46:30)
- How do I figure out what I actually want to do with my life? (48:00)
What we mention on this episode:
Katie Burke on Episode 70 of the Ali on the Run Show
Oprah's Super Soul Conversations with Marianne Williamson
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Alley on the Run Show is brought to you by Aftershocks. |
| 0:08.6 | Welcome to The Alley on the Run Show. I'm Allie Feller, I'm your host and today is listener Q&A Day. |
| 0:15.8 | Today's episode comes to you in very high demand. Katie Burke was a guest on episode 70 of The Alley |
| 0:22.2 | on the Run Show. She's the Chief People Officer at HubSpot, a massive tech company based in Boston, |
| 0:28.3 | and she's back today to answer all of your career-related questions. We're talking raises, |
| 0:33.8 | promotions, tricky bosses, office politics, changing industries, and so much more. So let's just get |
| 0:40.3 | right to it and let's hand this mic over to the career queen herself, Miss Katie Burke. |
| 0:49.7 | Katie Burke, I am so excited to welcome you back to The Alley on the Run Show. |
| 0:55.2 | I am so excited to be back. Thank you for having me. Okay, so remind everyone who you are, |
| 1:00.8 | where you're from, and what it is that you do. I am Katie Burke. I'm the Chief People Officer |
| 1:06.3 | at HubSpot, which is a marketing sales and services software company located in Boston, |
| 1:11.9 | and that is where I live, work, and run most days. Okay, so the way I think of you is you're just like |
| 1:17.4 | this career queen wealth of information, and we are going to take so much of that from you today. |
| 1:23.0 | I'm super excited for this episode. But before we get into the Q&A, I actually want to ask, |
| 1:27.6 | because you told me something fun over email, which is that you're about to take a sabbatical. |
| 1:32.7 | So I am. So one of the cool benefits of working at HubSpot is that every five years we give people |
| 1:38.1 | a month off and some pocket change to travel with, because we really want people to work hard, |
| 1:45.3 | but we also want them to rest, relax, and recharge. And so I'm actually one of three |
| 1:50.4 | HubSpot executives that will be on sabbatical in August. And we hope that sets a really positive |
| 1:56.3 | tone around need to rest and recharge in addition to working really hard. That is awesome. And how |
| 2:01.1 | are you planning to spend your sabbatical? I'm going to be away for a few weeks in Italy with the |
| 2:06.0 | whole Burke family. And then I'm actually going to take a week in Vancouver solo to just recharge, |
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