Christy Noel - Your Personal Career Coach: Real-World Experiences for Early Career Success

With the shared knowledge and diverse work experiences of the contributing authors, readers of Your Personal Career Coach will be better equipped to tackle their next job and achieve unprecedented success.

Des Walsh, Executive Vice Chairman, Herbalife International

YOUR PERSONAL CAREER COACH

2020 Christy Noel & Mike Noel

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ISBN: 978-0-9909725-6-3 (paperback)

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CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS

JulieAnna Anastassatos

Scott Asai

Carlton Bowers

John Casey

Al Dea

Tori Dunlap

Bridget Fahy, M.D.

Bill Gates Sr. with Mary Ann

Mackin

Jim Hayden

Berkley Johnston

Becky Klein

Ben Kohns

Michele Lando

Caroline Leach

Dana Leavy-Detrick

Charles McCarthy

Christy Noel

Jim Noel

Mike Noel

Sam Nutile

Katherine Schwarzenegger

Lydia Chen Shah

Bill Sousa

Cary Stockdell

Finally, a different kind of career book that Ill use again and again throughout my career.

George Truman, Senior, Colorado School of Mines

A BOUT TO GRADUATE FROM college? At your first job and ready for your next career move? Trying to get ahead or promoted in the fast-paced, ever-changing and dynamic business world?

Navigating the waters of a professional career, from landing a job to working in a startup or large corporation, is tougher than ever. In todays competitive landscape there isnt a lot of room for error and finding mentors or senior managers who have the time and interest in helping you can be challenging. How then, can you quickly learn the interpersonal and professional skills to get ahead? Where can you obtain the knowledge to avoid pitfalls and mistakes?

Your Personal Career Coach: Real-Life Experiences for Early Career Success was created to help those getting started in their careers by sharing the true-life experiences of a team of seasoned professionals, who bring their messages to life. As these stories illustrate, communicating and connecting with people is critical to creating a successful career. Within the pages of Your Personal Career Coach are stories about writing a resume that grabs attention, what to say and what not say in an interview, the secrets to giving a successful presentation, how to get and maximize time with your boss, and many more to help you get hired and succeed at your job.

Rather than a stuffy instructional how-to book, Your Personal Career Coach delivers engaging stories from professionals who have learned the lessons over the course of their own careers. The result is a collection of valuable insights, humorous confessions, and inspiring advice from authors with diverse experiences and perspectives to help propel your own career.

Your Personal Career Coach is the brainchild of Mike Noel. Mike was the first in his family to graduate from college. He had little experience or understanding of how the workplace operates. He had to absorb hard-earned and valuable lessons on the job and wanted to spare others the long and steep learning curve he experienced.

While Mike was working on his book, he discovered his daughter, Christy, had begun developing her own business book. Once they realized they had shared visions and ambitions for their books, they joined forces. Your Personal Career Coach is the father-daughter team result.

Your Personal Career Coach includes far more than Christys and Mikes experiences and learnings. They are joined by 22 professionals with diverse backgrounds ranging from business owners, startup founders, entrepreneurs and corporate executives to attorneys, professors and doctors; and they, too, share their lessons learned, including some missteps, from the expanses of their own careers.

With the experiences of these professionals to guide and mentor you, whether you are just starting out or have a few years of experience and are ready for new challenges, Your Personal Career Coach will help boost your job search, work relationships and performance to help you establish a successful, gratifying, and rewarding career.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

Arthur Ashe

A COLLEAGUE RECENTLY TOLD me he wasnt looking for a new job, but a recruiter found him through his LinkedIn profile. One day he received an InMail, a direct message on LinkedIn. That led to a phone conversation. Then came interviews. It all culminated in a great job offer.

The opportunity was too good for him to pass up, and hes moving to a new company. It was a loss for his previous employer, but it was a win for his career and his new company.

A compelling LinkedIn profile was the catalyst for the new job. This is a more and more common refrain. Its become the rule, rather than the exception, about how to land a new position with more responsibility and better pay.

As a college student, you can get in on this early by building a strong LinkedIn profile and presence. That will make you more discoverable by corporate talent recruiters who may be looking for someone exactly like you.

There are more than 630 million people on LinkedIn as of this writing. Among them are corporate recruiters and hiring managers across all kinds of industries and job types. This makes LinkedIn the perfect place for a college student to tell their unique story the one only you can tell.

As a former corporate VP of Communications and Marketing and now an entrepreneur, I look at a LinkedIn profile every time I meet someone new. To establish a strong professional relationship, I want to know the persons story, their work highlights, and our mutual connections.

My own LinkedIn activity has led to speaking engagements, an invitation to be a social-media influencer and the opportunity to contribute to this book. It also helped me launch my own business. I write, consult and speak about how people can build their careers and their companies though digital branding in social media.

Here are the rules I live by for an optimal LinkedIn profile. To stand out, I customize as much as possible, using keywords that might be used to search for people like me. As you establish your own presence, be sure to include: