Hey, it's Rachel Cook, your modern mentor.

I'm the founder of Lead Above Noise, a firm helping leaders end the tug of war between

driving results and driving employee engagement.

We do leader boot camps, keynotes, and pulse checks to help build custom blueprints.

Reach out to me and let me know how I can help.

So I'm wondering, have you ever had a

moment where you're like, huh, I'm in this marketing job or this retail job or this

investment management job? But now I'm wondering if I should have been a guidance counselor or a

science journalist or an electrician. I ask because I hear versions of this musing all the time.

And it's hard because it's normal to wonder, to imagine what another career path would feel like.

And yet it's so hard to make a jump into so many of them.

Like, you have to do a lot of training before you'd be allowed into a school or a research

department or the electrical guts of a building. And what if you did all the training and shifted

careers and just found yourself wondering again? I'm a big believer in continuous learning,

in exploring and gaining skills and credentials. But I'm also a big believer in testing the waters

as much as you can before you commit the time, the money, and the energy that it'll take to pursue

a whole new career path. Or even if you're not looking for a wholesale change, but you want to dial up

your desirability at work or on the job market.

There are ways to do this without going back to old school school.

So let's talk today about building up your microcredentials.

These bite-sized certifications allow you to learn specific skills quickly, and when you start to stack them strategically,

they can make a real difference in your career trajectory. So let's talk about what they are

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