A Mother's Journey To Professional Fulfilment | Career Pivot With Melissa Blackmore
Welcome back to The Motherhood Kit Podcast where today we are continuing our theme of a new you this new year with a conversation all about professional fulfilment. Often in motherhood, we feel a desire for change and personal growth, and sometimes this can extend to our professional lives and we feel a need to shake things up and pivot into something new.
Tune in as Yamel talks to Melissa Blackmore about switching careers and how to find happiness, contentment and fulfilment in your professional journey. We’ll be covering how to recognise the signs that it might be time for a career change, how to explore new options, and Melissa will be sharing her insights on the scary part of interviewing when you’re going back into the working world after taking time off with your little ones.
Melissa is a seasoned career strategist, program maker and hiring manager who empowers women in building purposeful careers while increasing their earning potential. With her deep-rooted corporate knowledge, she supports women in manoeuvring the complexities of the job market and workplace dynamic. Melissa is dedicated to enabling women to find career trajectories that offer fulfilment on financial, mental and emotional fronts.
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Some of takeaways from this episode include:
How to recognise you may be in need for a career change
Melissa identifies three questions you can ask yourself, to help work out whether you might be ready for a career pivot, and they all come under the umbrella question of – how is my current career impacting me mentally, physically and emotionally?
How to know what new venture to pursue
If you’re not sure what to pursue next, it’s important to spend some time doing the groundwork of working out what you enjoy, what you want out of your work, what are you actually good at, and where do your skills and expertise lie? It may also be worth going to a networking event and speaking to professionals to help you work out what career your strengths will fit.
Start with your non-negotiables
Setting out your non-negotiables for your next career venture is critical because it helps you get clarity on what is important for you, whether it’s a salary figure, a level of flexibility, or something else you want to achieve. Therefore, when an opportunity does arise, you’ll be able to check in with yourself that it fully aligns with you and your goals.