Original Post: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/career-mind-7-14-ways-leverage-portfolio-trent-rhodes/?trackingId=54aGSQngQgGYUrmzWVgEAA%3D%3D If you think about the physical portfolio, business portfolio, artist’s portfolio, it’s the skill sample you take around housing important materials. A collection of sorts. The portfolio website is the digital version, serving similar purpose. Enjoy the read. The personal portfolio can be seen as an unnecessary …
Career Mind #6: 5 Reasons Networking Isn’t Working
There are thousands of pieces written about this subject. Videos, whole courses to explore on networking because it’s such an important skill for career and life development. At its core, networking is a necessary survival / thriving skill because we live interdependently; our basic and luxury experiences are predominantly constructed …
Career Mind Newsletter #5 – Job Vs. Career
Original Post: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/career-mind-5-job-vs-trent-rhodes A Job, Woe is Me Jobs can be given negative reputations because they may be perceived as in opposition to entrepreneurship or being self-employed. Somehow, somewhere the mind virus spread that if you’re not a corporate CEO, franchiser or “doing my own thing” a professional must treat …
Career Mind Newsletter #4 – 3 Sales Skills for Job Candidates
Original Post: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/3-sales-skills-job-candidates-trent-rhodes The Ultimate Salesperson The most successful salesperson on the planet is…the baby. It’s a master at charisma, rapport virtuoso. With its chunky cheeks, plump limbs, bright eyes and a voice that sounds the same no matter the background, it’s designed to persuade adults to take care of …
Career Mind Newsletter #3 – Intrapreneurship
Trends & Temptations Original Post: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/intrapreneurship-trent-rhodes Watch YouTube long enough and you may come across several ads from people telling you how you should immediately quit your job, become an entrepreneur and make as much currency as they do in just a few short months. Their testimonials often appear extreme …
Career Mind Newsletter #2 – 7 Powers Empathy Grants You
Original Post: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/7-powers-empathy-grants-you-trent-rhodes Thoughts that come to mind with the word “empathy?” Generally they tend to be: being in touch with feelings, being sensitive. Caring about others’ feelings. Emotional overwhelm. Too sensitive to the environment. Content creators who adopt the empath title also give much focus to the feelings space, …
Career Mind Newsletter #1 – The Career Journal
Original Post: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/career-mind-1-journal-trent-rhodes/ If you had to think about all you’ve accomplished at a recent job, would you be able to articulate your top 5 contributions? What about your MVP (most valuable project)? How about a situation that stretched your abilities, persuading you to evolve greater skills? Or what about …
Career Development Interview with Enterprise Security Tech
Link: https://www.enterprisesecuritytech.com/post/how-to-get-hired-for-a-cybersecurity-job How To Get Hired for a Cybersecurity Job We recently spoke with Trent Rhodes, a career coach manager with tech education provider Fullstack Academy, about how to brand yourself when looking to enter or level-up in the cybersecurity industry. Amid America’s “Great Resignation,” workers are quitting their jobs …
Career Development Interview with SecureBlitz
Link: https://secureblitz.com/interview-with-trent-rhodes-from-fullstack-academy/ In this interview, we spoke with Trent Rhodes, a career coach manager with tech education provider Fullstack Academy. Amid America’s “Great Resignation,” workers are quitting their jobs and considering career changes at an incredible rate. Nearly 9 out of 10 company execs say they’re seeing higher than usual turnover. …
Your WFH Space: Setting Up
By Magdalena Lynch & Trent Rhodes WFH On the Rise TR – Two movements of many seemed to have the broadest influence on the work-from-home lifestyle: introduction of technological tools enabling people to work more often from a distance and the wave created by the pandemic and policies around it. …
Imposter Who?
Who owns your mind: you or someone who says you’re supposed to be living with a psychic cloud of low professional self-esteem, uncertainty and egg shell walking because you’re in a new industry? The idea of a “syndrome” is different from feeling unsure in a specific situation. When we lack …
Would You Use a Brand You Bash?
Written by Magdalena Lynch & Trent Rhodes Trends used for clickbait likes and followers exist in many industries and career development is no different. Especially in the new-grad / career-changer realm, the clientele potential is ripe for tapping into people’s pain points about job search struggles. If there only was …
Chakras & Shackles – Part 1
New Age has been infiltrated. For some time now. A quick scan through The Guru Papers will show just how rampant the spiritual hijacking is in the consciousness community. It’s not uncommon for a woman to have recollection of some man sitting on the meditation cushion preaching high concepts to a group, only …
The Power of Harvest Season
The fall season is near. Also called autumn. We can observe the changes. Cooler temperatures. The trees lose their leaves. General energetic quietude. It’s a contemplative season that invites us to go inward. Intensified thinking. More acute sensing. It’s a harvest season. Like every season, each carries particular energies and patterns we …
A Wise One Says, “Step Back and Reach Your Goals”
One of my event attendees [Goal Set 2020] wrote about her experience at the workshop. It’s an admirable quality to me, when someone is driven enough to immediately reflect on an experience, put the logic to practice, and processes the emotional content that may have come through. Software developer Karolina …
Audio Meditation & Power of Questions
Questions reflect a mind’s height. Questions are arrows, a cognitive tool to direct focus. Answers are targets, formed based on a question’s quality. The Q — a circle with a line running through it. The line is the symbol for direction, being willing to step outside of a loop that …
Practical Desire & Know Thyself Assessments
Part of the recent Goal Set 2020 workshop involved distilling intent. If we think of a general distillation process, we’re stripping some substance of the extra layers to reveal its essence. Get to the “heart of the matter,” some may say. “Strip it down to its root,” others might say. Give me “the …