Starting Your Career in a Pandemic

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Women, Business, Gender, Progress, Careers, Harvard, Business/management, Equality, Resources, Management, Workplace, Hbr, Human, Business/entrepreneurship, Business/careers, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Young women who are wrestling with the impact of the coronavirus crisis on their early-stage careers share how they’re managing the unfamiliar and unexpected. Plus a career coach gives advice for young women striving to establish themselves at work in less than optimal circumstances. Guests: Rachel Bronstein, Nina Jones, Hana Ayoub, and Alex Hemmer. Our theme music is Matt Hill’s “City In Motion,” provided by Audio Network.

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0:00.0	Once your business gets to a certain size, the cracks start to emerge.
0:05.0	Things you used to do in a day take a week.
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0:25.0	So in the course of putting together this episode we heard from a lot of our listeners who are early in their careers
0:38.0	about the kinds of challenges they're facing and it brought me back way back to what you know a really fragile
0:50.6	period that is yeah it brought me back and made me remember how little guidance anyone gave me.
0:58.2	I felt like I just sort of entered the workforce and was really left to fend for myself,
1:03.4	that's a lot of what I hear from young women now
1:05.8	is they're just trying to figure out
1:08.2	how work works.
1:10.0	And they're walking into a world of turbulence and unknowns.
1:14.7	Yeah.
1:15.3	It's daunting for you and me.
1:17.0	Imagine not having any experience in the workplace.
1:21.5	Right.
1:23.0	I worry about the ways in which it's compounding the pay gap, the opportunity gap, women's confidence
1:30.5	as they enter the workforce. And that's what I was excited about doing which is to help
1:36.8	them give them some advice you know from people who've been through it but also from
1:41.6	their peers around how can they
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