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The Value of Compassionate and Empathetic Leadership With Magalie Rene

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The incidents of the last two years exposed a need for compassionate and empathetic leadership. This was grossly missing from leaders from all sectors. If you’re in a job search today and aspire to arrive higher on the leadership ladder, showing these attributes will get you noticed. I am talking with Magalie Rene to discuss how compassion and empathy are needs employers are looking for.

In today’s show, you’ll also hear a clip from “The Modern Job Search Checklist” LinkedIn live stream. Damian Birkel and I talk to Sweta Regmi about preparing and responding to news of layoffs.

You are more than welcome to join the discussion. Here are three ways you can:

– Call and leave a voicemail at 708-365-9822, or text your comments to the same number

– Go to TheVoiceofJobSeekers.com, press the “Send Voicemail” button on the right side of your screen and leave a message

– Send email feedback to mark@thevoiceofjobseekers.com

More about Magalie:

Transformational Business and Executive Coach, Author, CEO & Founder of Workplace Catalyst, a professional coaching and workplace training firm. She often shares teachable moments for leaders on compassionate leadership through workshops, coaching, and speaking. She is featured in Forbes, Good Morning America, Business Insider, and more.

Highlights from our conversation:

The racial awakening (George Floyd events), pandemic shutdown, burnout, and the vaccine controversy showed the need for compassionate and empathetic leadership.
Perception by many people is anything softer than the usual line leadership will lead to a lack of accomplishment and reaching your goals.
Magalie says there’s a “remote revolution.”
Leaders need to support in bridging compassionate leadership, wellbeing, and belonging.
Magalie states, “Instead of allowing it to keep you constricted and small and fit in a box, right? Use the fear as a catalyst to do something different, to step outside of your comfort zone and get excited about being uncomfortable, get excited about being afraid because that’s, that means it’s an opportunity for your next.”
She recommends personal development from any source.
Magalie recommends reading “You Can Heal Your Life,” by Louise Hayes.

by Mark Anthony Dyson

Finding Jobs Using USAJobs.com with Robin Schlinger

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A military follower asked me about federal resumes. I wrote federal resumes for a big client, but not recently. I asked colleagues in a Facebook group I’m a part of, and Robin Schlinger emerged as someone whose reputation and work proceeded her. I’ve known about Robin’s work for years through other colleagues and resume writers in the space. She was so generous in offering a mini-workshop hybrid with a conversation to introduce USAJobs.com, the primary site to find federal jobs. I published the video version a couple of months ago on my YouTube page. Today’s episode is the audio version of Robin’s presentation.

You are more than welcome to join the discussion. Here are three ways you can:

– Call and leave a voicemail at 708-365-9822, or text your comments to the same number

– Go to TheVoiceofJobSeekers.com, press the “Send Voicemail” button on the right side of your screen and leave a message

– Send email feedback to mark@thevoiceofjobseekers.com

More about Robin:

Robin has been writing federal resumes for quite some time. She’s worked with various branches of the federal government providing tutorials, workshops, and coaching. Robin regularly speaks to job seekers and industry professionals on Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), Federal resumes, resume writing, LinkedIn profiles, and successful job search strategies.

Robin’s presentation is nearly 1 hour and 40 minutes in this episode. And it’s a fraction of the entire workshop she does for her corporate clients. We focus on applying through USAJobs.com, the main site to find published federal jobs. She also offers federal resume tips.

Presentation highlights:

Robin provides preliminary tips to do before starting the process.
It’s essential on USAJobs.com to create a USA jobs profile–anyone can create their own.
We discuss your security clearance status on your resume, and your application is vital.
If you are disabled, you want to listen to the job advice Robin offers at 22:40
“If you apply for a job that doesn’t match your experience and what you can do, you’re not going to get that job.”
It’s not a place to change careers. It’s a place to change job locations, doing what you’ve already done unless you’re disabled.

by Mark Anthony Dyson

Job Search: Be More Like Ella

You’re asked a question in an interview you might have prepared to answer. You forgot. What do you?

Channel your inner Ella. Let me explain.

Ella Fitzgerald is called the “queen of jazz vocals.” In a recorded concert in 1960, she was to sing “Mack the Knife,” a pop and jazz standard that everyone in the audience knew.

She rehearsed it several times but couldn’t wrap her memory around it. She went over it on the plane to Germany yet couldn’t remember the lyrics.

In the original recording, you can hear her voice her doubts (“I hope I can remember all of the words”).

She sang the first two lines fine, but afterward, she forgot the rest. She made the rest of the song up.

Well, the audience and the Grammy voters awarded her. It’s one of the most memorable jazz performances of all time.

But we understand, too, her performance perfections outweigh her imperfections in this performance.

A job interview is a performance, and the interview’s success results from an excellent performance. One mistake does not erase other great offerings. Keep that in mind when you are presenting before employers.

But if you’re going to improvise, offer water from the well of expertise. The hours of reading, conversations, writing, or speaking will serve you well. The buckets of stories and examples are accessible at this moment.

They may appear eagerly and voluntarily.

But whatever you do, don’t stifle. It is a powerful opportunity to show how the depth of your well.

Like Ella, you can improvise the same song where everyone knows the lyrics.

Unlike Ella, you won’t be rewarded if you’re not well rehearsed or just not ready.