Find Your Dream Job: Insider Tips for Finding Work, Advancing your Career, and Loving Your Job - Why It’s Important to Believe in Yourself: Gregory Day’s Job Search Success Story

Why It’s Important to Believe in Yourself: Gregory Day’s Job Search Success Story

07/01/24 • 14 min

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Find Your Dream Job: Insider Tips for Finding Work, Advancing your Career, and Loving Your Job

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Is it possible to break into a field that you have zero experience in? It might not be easy, but it can be done. On this bonus episode of Find Your Dream Job, Gregory Day shares how he went from a career in IT to the field of Human Resources without HR experience. Gregory says passion for the field and enthusiasm for the job are what carried him through when hiring managers scoffed. Learn more about Gregory’s career history below in this installment of our Success Stories series.

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How to Identify and Talk About Your Transferable Skills, with Zach Moore

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You want to switch careers or fields, but you aren’t sure if you have the skills necessary to be successful. What do you do? According to Find Your Dream Job guest Zach Moore, you take the time to figure out which skills you can transfer to that new field. What skills do you possess in terms of working with others, managing projects, or recording data and analytics? Zach also suggests thinking of a job description as a “cry for help,” and figuring out how your skills can answer that cry and solve that problem for the company.

About Our Guest:

Zach Moore is the career pathways manager at College Possible. It’s a nonprofit that coaches students from low-income communities to and through college.

Resources in This Episode:

To learn more about College Possible and its vision of ensuring that everyone has an equal opportunity to attend college, visit collegepossible.org/.
Zach looks forward to connecting with you on LinkedIn; find him at www.linkedin.com/in/zach-moore-85558239/.

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How to Answer Job Interview Questions about Racial Equity, with Jasmine Tolbert

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Hiring managers are asking questions about a candidate’s experience in the areas of equity, diversity, and inclusion, so you need to be prepared to answer. Find Your Dream Job guest Jasmine Tolbert shares the biggest factor in answering these questions—authenticity. Don’t try to fake a concern about these topics. Share from your experience how you have pursued racial equity in former jobs and how you would do so in any specific scenarios the hiring manager presents you with.

About Our Guest:

Jasmine Tolbert is the vice president of people and culture for YWCA Clark County. Her organization is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.

Resources in This Episode:

To learn more about the services and programming that the YWCA Clark County provides for women and girls, visit their website at YWCA Clark County.
Connect with Jasmine on LinkedIn.

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