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🗓️ 4 May 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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This week we welcome Phylicia Jones, Senior Director of Global People Development at PagerDuty, to answer all your work questions. She shares an overview of her career, what drew her to working in HR, and answers listener questions about cover letters, learning to be a great manager, navigating ambiguity at work, quitting when you feel a personal obligation to your boss, and more.
Connect with Phylicia on Linkedin!
Phylicia’s book recommendations
The Power of Regret by Daniel Pink
Unapologetically Ambitious by Shellye Archambeau
Obsessions
Olivia: The Somerset Maxi Linen Dress from Anthropologie
Becca: Mister Zimi Lottie Dress
What we read this week!
Becca: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Olivia: Flying Solo by Linda Holmes
May’s Book Club Pick: Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman
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0:00.0 | Hi everyone, welcome back to Bad on Paper Podcast. I'm Becca Freeman. |
0:20.8 | And I'm Olivia Mentor. |
0:22.3 | And we're live in Philly together. |
0:25.0 | Yes, it's great to have you here. |
0:27.8 | It's great to be here. You've been such a hospitable host. I was so impressed. |
0:33.0 | So I came in on Sunday and we hung out on your roof deck porch and we're just kind of |
0:39.1 | hanging out. It was the first time I met Jake and Winnie. I made a new best friend. |
0:42.5 | Best friends with Winnie. Yes, Winnie is in love. |
0:44.8 | However, however, not however, I was so impressed that Jake apparently listened to the podcast |
0:52.7 | and he bought orange vanilla seltzer for me. |
0:55.5 | He did. He told me when we were at the grocery store, he was like, I wrote down the drinks |
1:00.1 | that Becca likes when I was listening to the episode. And I was like, I love you. That's |
1:04.4 | so nice. |
1:06.2 | I'm really excited about today's episode. We have my friend Felicia Jones on to do an |
1:11.8 | Ask an HR rep episode to answer all of your career questions in a more thoughtful way |
1:16.9 | and from a different lens. Or whenever we answer career questions, it's from the lens |
1:21.4 | of being employees and managers versus this is from the HR point of view. And I'm really |
1:26.8 | excited for you to hear this discussion. It was so interesting. |
1:30.0 | I honestly learned so much. I did not know what to expect. But my mind was blown even |
1:35.6 | as someone who just works for themselves with themselves for the most part. I feel like |
1:41.2 | I just I learned so so much. It was such a powerful reframe for me on a lot of things. |
1:45.9 | I just I would have answered so many of the questions so differently than she did. And |
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