Lynda Spiegel | Career Pivot | Rising Star Resumes
Show Notes: RyanRhoten.com/lyndaspiegel
Today I welcome to the BRAND New You show Lynda Spiegel founder of Rising Star Resumes.
Lynda is a human resources and communications professional with over 14 years’ experience in sourcing, recruiting and hiring top talent in a variety of industries.
At Rising Star Resumes Lynda helps her clients develop their professional brand in order to get noticed by headhunters and hiring managers.
In her role as a career coach Lynda works with mid-career professionals who often are seeking to change careers from one field to another.
Lynda offers some unique insights, thoughts and strategies around how to make a successful career pivot.
So today we are going to have a straight forward discussion about the realities and un varnished truths of what it really takes to make career pivot.
Please help me welcome Lynda to the BRAND New You show.
Lynda’s definition of a career pivot is when you want to turn around and do something somewhat radically different, say going from being a teacher to being an attorney.
She came to this definition after going through a couple of career pivots in her own career. She started working in equity compensation which she did for several years until one day the company was sold and Lynda very quickly found herself without a job.
After moving to a few different jobs Lynda once again found herself in the middle of a corporate takeover. Like many her position she tried multiple times to find a new job in the same field but with no luck.
After months of searching her son, a hiring manager for his company, gave her the unvarnished “truth” that, “No one was hiring their mothers.”
This was a wake up call for Lynda who decided to put her HR skills and knowledge to work for herself and started Rising Stars Resumes.
Lynda regularly speaks with clients who want to make a career change or pivot. Their reasons vary but a lot of them fall into these buckets:
“I’m no longer happy doing what I do.”
“My work is no longer fulfilling.”
“I’m not making the kind of money I want to make or thought I would be making.”
“I’m stuck but I don’t know what I want to do.”
Any of these found familiar? If so rest assured that you are not alone. Fortunately in today’s podcast Lynda hits us with some unvarnished truth about the career pivot process.
So if you’re considering a career pivot, I’ve broken the show down into the 6 key steps you’ll need to follow in order to make a successful career pivot.
Check out the show notes at: RyanRhoten.com/lyndaspiegel to find out the
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The Best way to get in touch with Lynda is via the following methods.
Web: Rising Star Resumes
eMail: Lynda@risingstarresumes.net
Twitter: @RisingStarRes
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/risingstarresumes
Lynda’s Article on Talent Culture: HERE
Lynda leaves us with these final thoughts on Career Pivots.
