Letz Create - Career Success Stories

Georgia took an extended break from the workforce to care for her young family and was unprepared for the challenges of job searching in today’s environment. In this podcast, you’ll hear how Georgia found her confidence and learned new techniques and strategies while working with a professional career coach.

Marina helped Georgia with the key elements of a successful job search journey including:

• Identifying industries and positions of interest
• How to leverage and transfer existing skills
• Creating a stand out resume
• Developing a cover letter that got Georgia noticed
• Practicing interview responses and techniques

Georgia was successful in her job search and used the role as a stepping stone to a position she targeted with a preferred employer. She was able to apply her insights, knowledge and a strategic approach she learned with Marina to achieve her career success.

After having a maternity break it can be challenging to get your foot back in the door. In this podcast episode, Dallas shares her experience on working with Marina as her Career Coach and what strategies and tools were used to help her achieve career success.

Whether you’ve taken a break from the workforce for parenting duties, to be someone’s carer, to travel abroad or because of an injury there are many things that can change, even in a short period of time. Industries and technology keep evolving and you may feel like you’ve been left behind. During this time your priorities may have changed or you may want to consider working in a different industry. A Career Coach can help you on your career path to help you find clarity and provide you with the tools needed to achieve your own career success.

When redundancy strikes unexpectedly, the mindset you choose to leave with is what will make a difference to your future career options. Take control, take action and move on. In this podcast, you’ll learn how Carolyn achieved a quick and positive outcome from throwing herself into the Jump Start your Career Program.

Carolyn talks us through the key topics covered in the Jump Start Your Career Program that led her to a new and successful career. Some of the elements Marina covers in the Program include:

• How to navigate the current job market
• How to structure your resume
• How to write a stand out cover letter
• Identifying key selection criteria
• How to summarise your experience
• How to position yourself to get noticed
• Identifying companies you’d like to work for
• Interview techniques and practice to deliver the right messages
• Mindset and confidence building
• Networking, online and offline

Moving to a new country is exciting, yet challenging. Even with highly skilled capabilities there are challenges experienced by migrants. In this podcast Sanah shares her inspiring story of achieving career success in her new country of residence. Find out how Marina helped Sanah understand the local job market and translate her skill set and expertise to match the terminology and requirements of the Australian job market.

Julia moved from job to job without really having a clear career path for her future.

When she moved to a new city, Julia realised she didn’t want to be the sales girl forever.

After months of trying to job search on her own, Julia enlisted the help of Marina, a professional career coach. She now refers to it as “the best decision of my life.” Working with Marina gave Julia an opportunity to explore new opportunities that she hadn’t considered before.

Together they identified strengths, skills and passions and developed a strategy to achieve Julia’s career success in real estate.

Learn how participating in the interactive and online learning program, Jump Start Your Career, enabled Christina to achieve career success. In this podcast, Christina shares how the program helped her overcome the frustration of job searching. She explains how she was able to create a stand out resume, understand job ads, write a cover letter, prepare for interviews and what to do after an interview. Christina also learned valuable networking skills and how to create goals and action plans to achieve her new job.

In this podcast we explore the future of work - the technologies, the social expectations, the convergence of what we do and how we do it. Isabel shares with us how we can move forward with the future of work in a holistic way. We also discuss the types of roles job seekers need to explore, how to be agile, what skills are needed to survive and how decision making by leaders is changing.

When you’re job searching it’s easy to let doubt and uncertainty creep in when you constantly keep getting knocked back. Alli was frustrated and lost confidence in herself when she kept coming second at job interviews. She sought the assistance of a Career Coach who objectively helped her assess and understand where things were going wrong. Marina helped Alli carefully plan and prepare herself to cross the finish line and achieve Career Success in her job search journey.

With a strong background in operations and training, Gilly found herself craving a career change. In this podcast, you’ll hear how Gilly took a planned approach to ensure her career success. She worked with Marina to create strategies for her next career move. Gilly learnt how to approach and connect with individuals and nurture those relationships in organisations she wanted to work. She identified her skills, strengths and weaknesses to achieve her desired career success and outcome.

Scott was thrown in to the world of the unknown when he was made redundant. He’d been employed and felt safe in an executive role for over 15 years. It had been a long time since he had to write a resume and cover letter, let alone attend an interview.

The whole process seemed overwhelming until he connected with Marina. It took lots of courage to admit he needed help and he hasn’t looked back since.