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Looking for a new job or want to move up in your company? Lesa teaches you the tools and strategies you need to land your dream job, increase your promotability, and successfully navigate your career.

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343: How to Earn Bonus Points on Your Behavioral Interview Answers

The framework I teach my clients for answering behavioral interview questions is CAR(L)

C - Challenge

A - Action

R - Result

(L) - Lessons Learned

The “L” can take two forms, which I describe in the episode and give examples of both. When used correctly, this extra step is incredibly powerful in driving home exactly what you want the interviewer to learn about you from your answer.

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341: Focusing on the Gap vs. Focusing on Your Progress

Subtitle: “Beating Yourself Up for What Didn’t Get Done vs. Celebrating What Did Get Done.”

When you don’t meet your goal - be it for your job search, your job, or your personal life - what do you make it mean?

In this episode, I cover the thinking and the doing part of regrouping without blame when things don’t go as planned.

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332: Online Job Scams: What to look for, how to avoid

Online job scams cost Americans an estimated $490M in 2023, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In this episode, I talk about scammers posting fake jobs to try to either get your personal information or your money - or both. I cover the types of job scams people are falling prey to and how to spot them - as well as how to help protect yourself.

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329: Five Ways to Use AI in Your Job Search

There is a lot of information out there about the benefits of AI in your job search - and not all of i is actually beneficial for you s a jobseeker. In this episode, I dive into fiv ways to use AI in your job search, as well as a few ways I don’t recommend using AI.

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325: Know, Like, & Trust: A Sales Model for the Job Search

As a small business owner, I think a lot about the fact that a person has to know, like, and trust me in order to decide to work with me. This is applicable to job seekers as well- you are selling a product, and that product is YOU. In this episode, I break down know, like, and trust with tools and strategies to help you build a relationship with a potential buyer (an employer).

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324: Finding a Part-Time Job as a Professional

There are two types of part-time work I talk about in this episode: Professional part-time jobs for people who want to pursue an opportunity within their career field, and part-time jobs for professionals. I talk about where to look for these jobs and give you several resources.

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322: How to Leverage Your Existing Network to Find a Job in a New Field or Industry

Two of the things I hear more frequently about networking is: “I don’t know very many people,” and “I only know peope in my job function/industry, and that’s no help to me because I want to pivot.” These people are missing the boat in that a) they know more people than they think they do, and b) the people they know also know people - not all of whom are in the same industry or job function.

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