Today's guest, Wendii Lord, has years of experience in recruiting and she says relationships are crucial to your career success and DISC will help you. Plus she is British and has a cool accent.
The successful people now how to work through other people to get things done. So whether your interviewing for a new job or trying get promoted the DISC personality assessment is a great tool to learn how to work more effectively with others.
Are you more task oriented or more people focused?
Are you more assertive or more reserved?
You can take a simple on line assessment and learn your style.
D - Dominant
I - Influencer
S - Steadiness
C - Conscientious
In a group interview can you "tell your story" and be heard by everyone?
Brad Baldridge is a Certified Financial Planner and he specializes in helping families plan for college.
So no matter where you are on your journey from college debt to career cash, Brad has something for everyone!
On his website, Taming The High Cost of College, he has all sorts of helpful tools for finding scholarships and other financial services.
He helps many families that are in that late stage planning where college is just around the corner and the tuition bills are due now!
He dives into the big question about justifying high cost of college while balancing realistic career opportunities.
He shares a golden nugget at the end that could lead to financial success for anyone who follows his advice!
Helen Hedrick shares how "crucial conversations" led her to a sales career with Roche Diagnostics.
In fact all of us will have those conversations so how can we be prepared?
Fortunately, she had family and other mentors to help her make the important decisions. When it came time to pivot away from a medical degree and move into sales, she was grateful for those "crucial conversations".
What resources do you use and who do you talk to make big career choices?
When it was time for the final group interview she practiced using the CAR method. This gave her the confidence to tell her story in a panel interview.
She shares a cool success story that involved using her, "Drama and Theatre Degree"!
I asked her to share some career advice and you need to hear what she says especially if your thinking about making a change.
Darius has his challenges like the rest of us but he also has a secret ingredient!
He knows after getting his degree and starting his career job that he has to actual show up and work hard every day!
He realizes that his real opportunities for career and financial success lie ahead and that he is on the right track.
He is an already an assistant manager at Enterprise and he is fired up about his plan to get out of debt.
He uses the 'envelope system" to pay cash for all his routine expenses and that helps him get a handle on his budget.
Darius calls out the millennials so what does he say about his generation?