Career Central

Our Guest this week, Zack Ballinger, Author of Don't Be A Zombie: How to Find a Career You Love, will guides us through a three-phase process to discover and unleash the passion inside you. Learn strategies for opening doors to ideas, perspective, and opportunities to transform an unfulfilled life into one that impassions you, every single day. Don't give in to what's easy by staying in a job or career that is holding you back. Invest in yourself and reshape your future.

Finding a new job may not solve your career issues. Learn how to tell the difference between internal and external factors effecting your job satisfaction. Our guest, Richelle Lecourt, will walk us through the process of determine the source of our dissatisfaction and provide strategies for determining if we need a new job or a new way of approaching our current job.

An advocate for job seekers during the recruitment process, our guest this week, David AuClair will reveal strategies for effectively working with internal and external recruiters. Blending stories of successful recruitments and tips on how to be the star of your own recruitment story, David will share his enthusiasm and expertise as a recruiter.

Our guest is Andy Storch, author of Own Your Career, Own Your Life. Andy shares how to go from a job that runs your life to a career you own. Learn how to create a roadmap for defining and achieving your career goal. Find the career success you are seeking and, along the way, create a happier, more fulfilling life.

Why aren't you receiving responses to your applications? Susan Collins has been a recruiter for more than 20 years in the retail industry. She exposes the truth of hiring processes and how to ensure your resume reaches the hiring manager's desk. She shares the most effective way to get the job you want. Join us as she pulls back the curtains on the world of recruiting and discusses what you should be doing to create a strategic job search.

Holly Shaw is an expert on connecting with the hiring manager during a virtual interview. An actress who has overcome stage fright, imposter syndrome, and creative blocks, she shares helpful strategies from eye contact to voice control and will have you laughing as you learn.

If you are struggling with motivation and want to accomplish more with less stress, this show is for you. Elizabeth Grace Saunders, an esteemed time management coach and author, explains the keys to moving from guilty, overwhelmed and frustrated to accomplishing more with peace and confidence.

If you dread dealing with office politics and avoid it at all costs, you may be killing your career. Terry McDougall shares the moment she realized office politics meant the difference between being locked in one position versus rising in an organization. Learn how to separate office gossip from career-advancing information to open a path to your next promotion.

Learn how to stop the chain reaction that fear triggers. Jennifer Thornton tells you how to convert your fear into career-advancing actions. Learn how to transform negative messages into positive actions. With this fresh perspective, you can stop making career decisions based on fear and embrace the freedom of building the career you really want. Listen to Jennifer Thornton, an expert on using fear to unleash potential, share the techniques she uses to help individuals and companies excel.

Turning an interview into a job offer requires more than having the right answers to the interviewer's questions. It requires creating a conversation that leads the interviewer to conclude you are the right person for the job. Research shows only 15% of a hiring decision relies on answers to questions. Our guest, Jeff Sipe, an expert on coaching job seekers on the science and technology of interviewing, will share how to excel in the 85% of the interview processes that is non-verbal.

Most resumes submitted for jobs are never seen by actual people because they are eliminated by an Applicant Tracking System (ATS). James Hu helps job seekers create cover letters, resumes and LinkedIn profiles that ATS systems forward to hiring managers. Learn how the founder and CEO of Jobscan is empowering job seekers to beat the resume black hole!

12% percent of all married couples meet at work. Learn from a human resource expert how to navigate the possible pitfalls of an office romance to start a life with your soul mate.

Recently, Marie Zimenoff met with international career thought leaders to develop insights into future career trends. Tap into the wisdom of professionals who help thousands of individuals make successful career advancements and transitions each year. Learn how to incorporate their findings into your career plan.

Fear is the number one factor stopping professionals from reaching their full potentials. Jacqueline Wales helps individuals identify the sources of their fears and develop strategies for alleviating them. Whether you suffer from imposter syndrome (a pervasive feeling of self-doubt, insecurity, or fraudulence) or lose promotional opportunities because you hesitate to share your ideas and insights, your career has been stunted by fear. Learn how to ease your fears, freeing yourself to advance your career.

If your career goal includes moving into a leadership position or excelling in your current leadership role, you will want to know the key strategies to developing strong leadership skills. Wanda Wallace, Managing Partner of Leadership Forum, LLC, and a podcast host who has interviewed organizational leaders from multiple industries, shares her knowledge on how to climb the corporate tree to secure the leadership role you are seeking.

Discover strategies for ensuring your online profile reinforces the professional image you want employers to discover. The step between reviewing an application and calling a candidate for an interview is often a dive into a candidate's online presence. Our guest shares how to ensure your online image reflects the skills, talents, and professionalism you will bring to the job. Don't let your online presence impede your job search.

Change is the only constant in managing a career. 85% of the jobs that today's learners will do in the next 20 years have not been invented yet! The US Bureau of Labor Statistics says that they will have 8-10 jobs by the time they are 38. So how do you prepare for this new future? Listen to Christopher Bishop, a future workplace expert who teaches professionals how to prepare to succeed in jobs that have not yet been created in our 21st century's global borderless workplace.

Our guest, Lorne Epstein, an expert in dealing with unconscious bias shares strategies for identifying and working towards the elimination of unconscious bias in the workplace and creating a happier, more productive work environment that reduces turnover.

There is little question that the pandemic has changed the world of work. Our guest, Myriam-Rose Kohn, has been helping people understand how they, themselves, have changed during the past year and uses that knowledge to help them move forward in their careers. Whether you find yourself looking for a job or wondering if you want to keep the job you have, Myriam will walk you through a proven process for deciding how to adapt your career goals to the post-pandemic world of work.

Prospective employers only know what you tell them. Our guest, Ellen Steverson, shares how to ensure a prospective employer knows why you should be considered their top candidate. She shows you how to identify and market your skills, talents, and experience. Merging her extensive background in recruiting and marketing with her industry-leading resume development and coaching skills, she has developed a plan that any job seeker can use to create a positive impression on a prospective employer.

Applying for jobs but not getting responses? Our guest, Raj Subrameyer, submitted over a thousand job applications before he developed a strategy that landed him his first job in the IT field. Raj also shares what it is was like to be an introvert marketing himself to hiring managers.

The best resume, interview preparation, and networking will not help you if you do not have confidence in yourself. Bonnie Negron helps people determine if their self-perceptions are interfering with their efforts to land the jobs they want. Learn how to identify your self-defeating behaviors and stop them from negatively impacting your job search and career advancement goals.

Learn strategies and resources for finding a job after years of unemployment, illness, or incarceration. Elisabeth Sanders-Park has helped thousands of people, who have gaps in their employment history, get jobs. Learn how to use the “back door” to get the job you want. If you or someone you know is trying to return to work after a long period of unemployment, this is the show for you.

Job seekers can use an ally. When that ally is an experienced external recruiter, they have a partner who can help them find the right job openings, prepare for interviews, and negotiate salaries. Jack Kelley has spent his entire career helping job seekers land jobs they want at competitive salaries. He shares his considered expertise on the best way to work with a recruiter as well as information about his latest project: building a company that matches job seekers with recruiters.

Feel you can't move into the job you want because you lack needed skills and can't stop working to learn them? Kyndall Bennett has made it her mission to spread the word on how you can learn skills, keep working, and move into the job you want. An expert on traditional and non-tradition ways to develop career-advancing skills she shares the strategies she has used and taught others.

Learn how to handle the toughest interview questions and turn those interviews into hiring conversations. Our guest, Thea Kelley, walks us through how to prepare for interviews using her unique strategy for developing answers that showcase your qualifications. She takes us step-by-step through the interview process so you will feel more confident when interviewing for positions.

Learn how to handle the toughest interview questions and turn those interviews into hiring conversations. Our guest, Thea Kelley, walks us through how to prepare for interviews using her unique strategy for developing answers that showcase your qualifications. She takes us step-by-step through the interview process so you will feel more confident when interviewing for positions.

Expand your job search into the hidden job market where employment opportunities are not advertised, and the likelihood increases dramatically that your application will be seen by a hiring manager. Learn how to tap into this market from Barb Girson, an expert on the hidden job market who has helped countless job seekers bypass job boards and move straight to interviews.

A diagnosis of cancer often forces radical career changes. This show draws upon the experience of a professional woman who offers strategies for keeping a job that is critical to paying for medical expenses while confronting an uncertain future and not feeling her best. Also meet a woman who has facilitated ways for employees to support colleagues dealing with cancer. More than 300,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year, many of them will be employed. Learn how to face the challenges and support colleagues who must manage careers and cancer.

Kate Dixon, an expert on salary negotiation and compensation, will help listeners understand what to consider – and negotiate – related to pay packages. Topics will include explanations of pay, benefits, and other elements of job offers, getting clarity on what's important, negotiating best practices, what to say (and what not to say), and how to shift to a mindset that leads to confidence and competence.

Shannon Rollins shares how the job she loved was compromising her health and how she found ways to enjoy her work and stay healthy. Additionally, she shares the survival strategies and practical tools she learned about along her journey. Learn how to leverage your unique personality and skill set to tackle career fulfillment and work-life balance head-on. Learn how to leverage your unique personality and skill set to tackle career fulfillment and work-life balance head-on. Whether you are an accomplished professional struggling to find contentment, or a recent graduate looking for the right career path, you will learn strategies and equip yourself with practical tools that allow you to find true joy at work and at home.

If you have submitted a resume but were not invited to an interview, this is the show for you. Our guest, award-winning resume writer Marie Plett, will share her experience-based knowledge for improving your chances of generating an interview based on your resume. She will share her techniques for crafting a resume that will successfully pass through an applicant tracking system and Human Resources, so it lands on a hiring manager's desk. Additionally, Maria will share how to create an engaging, powerful resume that inspires a hiring manger to contact you.

A winning LinkedIn profile can open doors to many career opportunities, even before companies post job openings. LinkedIn is the preferred tool for recruiters looking for candidates so your LinkedIn profile should not just be a duplication of your resume; it needs to compliment it. Our guest, Tom Powner, has spent years as a recruiter, is a Nationally Certified Online Profile Expert (NCOPE) using LinkedIn, and has coached scores of candidates into new jobs. Tom will be sharing tips and strategies for ensuring that your LinkedIn profile appears when a recruiter is looking to fill the type of position you want. From tips on how to set up your profile to using more advanced LinkedIn features, Tom will share strategies on how to increase your chances of appearing at the top of a recruiter's list when they search for candidates.

Effective leaders make a conscious effort to continually improve their skills. Our guest has coached new and seasoned executives at one of the world's largest companies. An advocate for experience-based leadership development and learning through experience rather than education, she will share strategies you can use to prepare for your promotion into a leadership role and increase your effectiveness in your current role. Joined by an executive she coached, the conversation will focus on practical strategies you can implement immediately.

Personal branding is about deciding to take an active role in the direction of your life. Your personal brand helps you make the most of what you have got to offer. Learn to: build your personal brand to authentically stand out from the crowd; transform your image to communicate a clear and concise message; tap into the power of social media to showcase your brand; and craft a winning strategy to launch your personal brand.

Are you finding it difficult to focus on career goals in the middle of a pandemic? In this episode of Career Central, host Lorraine Beaman welcomes Lisa Fischer, a professional coach who has a proven record of teaching, coaching and mentoring people of all ages for over two decades. Lisa has a proven track record of helping clients overcome barriers preventing them from achieving their career goals. Using nature-inspired metaphors and yoga philosophy, Lisa helps individuals and teams identify clarity in their stories, define their WHYs, and develop action strategies to reach their goals and live their best lives. If you are looking for help during this challenging time, tune into this episode of Career Central!

Learn how to survive and thrive in our everchanging work environment. Our guest, Beth Benatti Kennedy, author of Career ReCharge, will share strategies for boosting your resilience and beating burnout. Tune in to learn the five strategies essential for remaining a top performer.

Social networking is responsible for 80% of all job offers. Our guest this week is Janice Jordan, the Chief Marketing Officer of Insightful Business Services, and an expert in the field of social networking. Tune in to hear Janet's best strategies for building your network.

Are you looking for a new job or changing careers? Are your job search results not what you want them to be? My guest, Jeff Dunn, has over 20 years of corporate recruiting experience. He is an expert on successful job search strategies including resumes (what employers are really looking for!), effective networking and tips that will help you ace your interviews! Don't miss Jeff's best practical tips you can use now! Please join us!