79. Building Your Career Community

What Rules!?: A career podcast for women of color

Learn how to build a community that will open doors and grow your career, thanks to Ivonne Valdes, Chief Channel Officer at Sorenson Communications.

Cuban American Ivonne shares how everyone around her, from neighbors to recruiters, have contributed to her career success. She has secured mentors and sponsors at every job and she has built an advisory board that helps with her career moves.

We chat about the cultural taboo of bragging vs stating the facts, aka our accomplishments, and Ivonne teaches us that there is nothing wrong with telling people what you want!

“If you want something, tell people because we are a very tightly knit community and we love helping each other,” she says.

Ivonne also reminds us that you don’t have to do it alone when outsourcing elements of your life can help you be more efficient and prioritize what matters.

Theme: Don’t Do It Alone

Episode Highlights:

• How to be persistent in a job search
• Bringing your uniqueness to a job
• Challenging a job description
• Leveraging your transferable skills
• Setting aside your ego to get ahead
• Learning from your failures
• Building an advisory board
• Making career moves with the help of mentors and sponsors
• Bragging vs facts
• Outsourcing to work smarter, not harder
• Prioritize what matters

Mentioned In This Episode:

“Work-Life Balance Is a Cycle, Not an Achievement” article by Harvard Business Review

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