How to create the career of your dreams | Interview with Career Rehab author Kanika Tolver

How to create the career of your dreams | Interview with Career Rehab author Kanika Tolver Contact Kanika: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KanikaRTolver/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/KanikaTolver LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kanikatolver/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kanikatolver/ Kanika's Book: Career Rehab: Rebuild Your Personal Brand and Rethink the Way You Work: https://amzn.to/3Df1BK1 Kanika Tolver is the CEO and founder of Career Rehab, LLC in Washington, D.C., where she helps clients transform their careers with coaching programs, events, webinars and digital resources to help people reach their career goals. An in-demand coach, consultant, speaker and thought leader, she has been featured on CNN, CNBC, CBS Radio, Yahoo!, Black Enterprise, Glassdoor.com, Entrepreneur.com, The Washington Post and a variety of radio interviews and podcasts. Kanika is the author of the acclaimed title, 'Career Rehab: Rebuild Your Personal Brand and Rethink the Way You Work.' http://kanikatolver.com If you are interested in transitioning into tech join the waitlist for Kanika's Career Rehab Academy. Sign Up today: https://form.jotform.com/203065495725156 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• --------- Contents of this interview -------- 00:00 - Intro 05:08 - Interview starts 05:20 - Du'An introduces Kanika 08:24 - How did you come up with the concept for your book? 10:54 - About personal branding 12:51 - How did you go about taking ownership and apply to get the knowledge you were looking for? 16:24 - How did you cross over to project management from the traditional IT field? 18:07 - One of the things I found is one of the best ways to improve your resume and validate how much you're wortt is to get experience and be a part of projects, own something on it. You know what I mean? 19:23 - What resources do you have around project management or do you know that are out there for prject management? 21:31 - What if those opportunities aren't there and you're not getting them, what would you recommend somoene do in that situation? 23:26 - When it comes to your brand, can you talk about what makes the brand marketable in this industry? 26:01 - Specializing is a great and dangerous thing to do cos you learn one thing and get really good at it and then it goes away because it happens in tech 28:31 - What advice do you have for people that are feeling like they can't be themselves in organizations or in interviews? 31:30 - On your career rehab journey, did social media play an impact? If so, what platforms? 33:37 - Kanika asks: "How do you get those jobs on twitter?" 34:08 - Kanika asks: "Do you feel like Youtube played a part too?" 37:18 - What made you start to be in a place to want to give back and help others? 40:16 - What's your thoughts on approaching tech as a job for people that just say they want to come to work and get paid? 42:24 - People approach tech like it's a grind, you have to keep learning and growing 45:38 - When you walk into an interview, how do people know who Kanika is? What is some ways to have your brand speak for you while you sleep? 48:38 - How do professionals go about identifying the perfect career path for who they are? 51:43 - Kanika asks: "What do you think?" 55:04 - The power is learning how to google and what questions to really ask to get the answers you want 57:25 - I've worked in organizations where you couldn't just come to senior leadership with a question you haven't already researched 01:00:18 - Each time you go to a different area of IT, you have to first learn the lingo and how they communicate in that space 01:03:23 - How do you land a speaking engagement? 01:06:58 - There is a thing called Call-for-Papers, say a talk is in March and they may have the call for papers in November 01:07:56 - Pitch your content, content is king 01:12:25 - Will any of you look at a resume for someone seeking their fist tech job? 01:13:16 - What's a good way of documenting and presenting your accomplishments outside of a standard resume in your question? 01:14:41 - LinkedIn lets you take a test to pass your skill tests, have you taken one of those? 01:16:14 - Please change your LinkedIn URL to your name, remove the numbers and have it professional. What do you think? 01:17:18 - Once you change your URL to something that's professional, put that LinkedIn link on your resume 01:19:02 - Do any of you have brand deals, if so what was that process like as content creators? 01:25:55 - Do you mind taking us out today? 01:27:28 - Outro Du'An Lightfoot on Social Media: https://twitter.com/labeveryday DISCLAIMER: This video and description contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links, I’ll receive a small commission. This helps support the channel and allows us to continue to make videos like this. Thank you for the support! #LabEveryday #CareerRehab #KanikaTolver