Reimagine Your Career: Helen Jonsen on Your Kaleidoscope Career
Key Takeaways from Interview with Helen Jonsen:
A kaleidoscope career utilizes fundamental skills and talents in various roles and industries throughout one's professional life. -
Business disruptions (e.g., pandemic, AI) are changing how people work and view their careers.
Non-linear career paths are becoming more common and accepted.
Key to navigating a kaleidoscope career:
- Identify and articulate your core skills that transfer across roles
- Explain your career transitions with confidence -
- Highlight how your diverse experiences add value
Advice for job seekers:
- Focus on your transferable skills and how they apply to new roles, even if the job title or industry is different.
Advice for hiring managers:
- Look beyond traditional career paths and recognize the value of diverse experiences.
Notable Quotes:
"We have fundamental skills, talents, passions, interests that are always a part of us. It's how we change them and move them around and use them in different workplaces, in different opportunities, that builds a kaleidoscope career." - Helen Jonsen
"People need to own their own story, to learn the stories that they want to share about their story. Those remarkable skills that they have and I'll bring them to the table." - Helen Jonsen
Resources Mentioned
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Previous podcast episode on "Girl Talk vs. Women Talk - 3 Shifts to Command Respect"
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Podcast produced* and original theme music by Megan Tuck www.megantuckaudio.com
*Megan creates a listenable pod from a truly imperfectly created original containing my walking huffs & puffs, footfalls, background noises - birds, waves, cars, dogs, roosters and more. Thank heavens for Megan!
