Liz Ryan

Founder and CEO, Human Workplace. Keynote Speaker. Author of REINVENTION ROADMAP; RIGHTEOUS RECRUITING; RED-BLOODED HR

New York City Metropolitan Area

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Northwestern University

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  Career Development Coaching, Change Management, Corporate Training, Executive Coaching, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership Development, Public Speaking, Management Consulting, HR Consulting, and Content Strategy

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CHECK OUT our new Career Coach Directory at humanworkplace.com/directory !

Human Workplace career coaches can help you navigate a job search or career change, advance at your current job or surmount any career challenge.

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Human Workplace is a content, coaching and consulting firm and a global movement with over three million members.

Our mission is to reinvent work for people. We help working people decide on their next, best career move and step into it, and work with executives and HR pros on building cultures where talented people want to be.

I write and speak about the new-millennium workplace and how all of us, employees and working people, must shift our mindset and adapt our practices to have the careers and organizations we want and the lives we deserve.

Articles by Liz

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  The Workplace is Changing - Here's How To Keep Up!

  By Liz Ryan

  Aug 31, 2023
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  10 Easy Ways To Make Your Workplace Human

  By Liz Ryan

  Aug 24, 2023
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  Will AI Take Your Job?

  By Liz Ryan

  Aug 17, 2023

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• What are the steps to transition your career smoothly and successfully?

  This is important: If they want to pay you less because you don’t have industry experience, ask them if they interviewed other candidates, who DO have industry experience. Yes, they will say, of course we did. And you still want to give me the job? Yes, we do. Great! So, in the end, I guess industry experience is not the most important qualification? Well… I need to start this job with a vote of total confidence, of course. If you choose to hire me over people with industry experience, I should receive the full salary, of course. Do you agree? I have never seen this approach fail. Rock on!

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• What are the steps to transition your career smoothly and successfully?

  Choose your most relevant stories to share at interviews. Years ago I had a client who had run an animal shelter. She moved to a new state and found that it would be almost impossible to get a job running an animal shelter as the number two, three and even four leaders in each shelter were identified years ahead of time. She was really good at operations and managing busy environments with lots of people. So, she focused on call center management jobs. She sent a Pain Letter (TM) to the VP of Ops for a company with several call centers. In her letter she said, “I managed 45 staff and 60 volunteers in an environment punctuated by snarls, yelps and barks – and then there were the animals.” She got the job. 😀

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• What are the steps to transition your career smoothly and successfully?

  A career changer may have a tough time applying for jobs through the traditional method – career portals, and online applications. They are not likely to have many of the “essential requirement” specified in a job ad, the ones résumé screeners will be looking for Read about my Pain Letter (TM) approach - a way to bypass HR and the applicant tracking system and reach out to hiring managers directly. Any job seeker needs to think about the type of pain they saw, and the pain points for hiring manager is likely to be struggling against. This goes double for career changers, but once you have a bead on the pain you solve you are halfway to your goal.

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• What are the steps to transition your career smoothly and successfully?

  So-called knowledge worker jobs have much more in common with one another then we may think at first. If you’ve done one office job, you can do a lot of other jobs as well. What holds most career changers back is a lack of confidence. They feel that all of their credibility comes from their past industry or function. Actually, your credibility comes from your understanding of people and the working world. The more you know about your new, chosen career path, the more you will see the intersections between what your new path requires, and what you’ve done already.

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• What are the steps to transition your career smoothly and successfully?

  The first step in engineering a career change is to get altitude on your career so far and figure out what you want to do next. Get a journal and write about what you’ve learned about yourself. What do you love to do? What are you especially good at? Your friends can help you with this project, too. Often our friends know us better than we know ourselves. Next, go on LinkedIn and Indeed, and browse job ads. Browse LinkedIn profiles, too. The question you’re looking to answer is, what career direction should I head in next? That’s the first step. Before you begin looking for a new job, you have to zero in on your new career direction. That way, you can brand yourself powerfully for the job you want – not any job you could perform.

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• How can you engage remote workers?

  The biggest cause of burnout is a person’s workload. Workloads become excessive because managers often have a hard time telling their manager, Director, or VP that employees are overburdened. It’s scary to tell your boss something they don’t want to hear. This is why as managers we are so often surprised and disappointed by an employee giving notice when we didn’t know they were unhappy. We didn’t know they were unhappy because they didn’t say so. They didn’t say so because it’s hard to tell your manager what they don’t want to hear. It’s a vicious cycle. Pay close attention to the amount of work each person on your team is dealing with. It’s often easier for someone to get another job than to tell their manager they can’t keep up.

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