Build Your Talent Stack

Lorna Deng and Bedi Othow are both Human Resource professionals, passionate advocates for diversity and inclusion, and they are both migrants from South Sudan who have faced and overcome employment barriers. Lorna and Bedi recently joined forces to start their own social enterprise DivTal, an online job platform that will help organisations look for culturally diverse talent and improve career prospects for migrants and create a more fair and inclusive future of work. Links mentioned: LinkedIn - Lorna Deng LinkedIn - Bedi Othow DivTal For more talent stack resources visit https://www.yishanchan.co/links

I share why it’s a good idea to set up your LinkedIn as a digital portfolio, and a few tips you could do to turn a profile that probably looks like an online version of your resume into a digital portfolio. Use your digital portfolio to showcase your talent stack, build credibility.... and imagine if this was visible to someone in your network who's looking for someone like you! Links mentioned in this episode: Content Mind Map Tutorial on how to add links to your LinkedIn profile For more talent stack resources visit https://www.yishanchan.co/links

In today’s episode I chat with Ali Adey, who is the founder of She Mentors, a membership site that connects women in business with mentors, experts and peers. She runs bi-monthly events in Melbourne with some of Australia's most influential women in business. She also has 11 years experience in digital and ecommerce, having worked for global lifestyle brands including Women's Health & Fitness, Kayser Lingerie, Elle Macpherson Body and All Things Hair. Listen to Ali’s story of how she balanced a senior role in digital strategy whilst disrupting the traditional format of networking events by listening to what people want and how they like to learn from like minded people. Links mentioned: She Mentors Ali Adey - LinkedIn For more talent stack resources visit https://www.yishanchan.co/links

Conor O'Malley is a former C-level executive in Suppy Chain in the areas of Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Retail and Third Party Logistics in organisations across Australia and UK. Conor now runs his own practice in executive coaching and leadership development. I reached out to Conor to share his perspective on: Difference between coaching vs. mentoring How to make better decisions when facing major disruption in your career How to create your own possibilities in the future of work How we should be changing the conversation to drive change in organisational culture Links mentioned: Conor O'Malley - website Conor O'Malley - LinkedIn "Network with Purpose" - Gordon Jenkins "Coaching to the Human Soul" - Alan Sieler (Volume 1, Volume 2) "Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership" - Joseph Jaworski For more talent stack resources visit https://www.yishanchan.co/links

Did you know that there are so many virtual ways that you can offer skilled volunteering? The skills and experiences in your talent stack, could be the very combination that could add immense value to your local communities and not for profit organisations.. In today’s episode we’re going to dive into my volunteering story, as well as stories from people in my network on how they’ve approached virtual skilled volunteering, or adapted their skilled volunteering for a virtual environment. Each of us are going to share what inspired us to volunteer, how did we adapt the volunteering role for a virtual environment, what did we learn about ourselves. My goal for this episode is to inspire more people to consider skilled volunteering virtually especially so during COVID. So many people and not for profit organisations out there need our support more so than ever before, and I wanted to show you just a few examples of the diverse ways you can offer your talent stack to help someone out there in need. 1. Conor Malley - LinkedIn Listen to Conor's interview on Episode 26 (How to approach career disruptions & create your own possibilities in the future of work) 2. Rosmaya Djosef - LinkedIn Rose is volunteering with Emergency Services Foundation 3. My volunteering story with a local not-for-profit organisation For more talent stack resources visit https://www.yishanchan.co/links