Cliona's Career Discovery Inspiration

In this episode it's just me. I talk to you about career action planning. What is a career action plan? what does it do? and how to begin creating your own career action plan.

In today's episode of Cliona's Career Discovery Inspiration (CDI) Podcast, I talk with Louise Jacobson who is Managing Partner at Brazen MENA. Louise tells us all about her role in PR and highlights the skills necessary to make it in this growing career field. She also talks about the importance of work experience and showing that you are willing to learn.

In today's episode we speak wit Cathy Cribben Pearse, Nurse, Midwife and founder of Oaktree mentoring, about her career journey and her tips for students today. Cathy's love of study came when she began her nurse training and had the ability to apply what she learned in a practical situation. Since then she has craved knowledge and has continued to train and improve her skillset throughout her career. Cathy believes that this curiosity is one of the most important skills for students to have in their career search.

David Brown, Geologist and Business Development Manager in the oil and gas sector speak to us about how the Canadian university system changed the path of his career from Marine Zoologist to Geologist and how we should be afraid of change.

Cheryl Nankoo, Senior Account Manager with Gartner Dubai talks about how experience, mentoring and her analytical and problem solving skills gained through Maths have helped her in her consultancy roles. She also explains how so called soft skills such as communication and presentation skills as well as her part-time jobs as a teenager helped her get to where she is today.

Have you always wanted to be an Industrial Engineer? Mandy Offield wasn't so sure when she studied Business Management and Economics at university. However, her love of problem solving led her down this path and today she talks to us about her role as Associate Director of Industrial Engineering with United Healthcare Group.

Being comfortable at being uncomfortable - Sean Vangordon talks to me about how studying a degree in Political Science and Industrial Economics led him to his role as Director of Industrial Engineering with United Healthcare Ltd and how he combines it with being Mayor of Springfield.

In this episode, Sheridan Teasel talks to me about his career journey to date. From reading Physics at Oxford becoming a Mathematics teacher and even working as a pilot and in finance in between. He's had an interesting career and doesn't rule out any more career changes in the future. For Sheridan it's all about following his passions and keeping his options open.