my career has kind of shifted. I don't really stay it on a particular lane through throughout my career. So as a high school student, I really wanted to do clinical psychology. That was my goal was to be doing, like therapy, type of work, helping profession. And so I went to Montana State University in Bozeman and got a psychology undergraduate degree and was able to graduate in three years and applied right away to PhD programs, which are very challenging to get into statistically there harder than med school just because there's so many applicants and so few spots, and it's very research oriented. So I didn't get in my first application. I needed to have, like, published studies and have done experimentation of my own. So I ended up going to an experimental psychology master's program instead, Um, right after graduating and I really love that. Um, just being in the research design experiment area of human behavior was really interesting to me, and at that time, I was also working and more like treatment settings. So working in um, therapeutic treatment centers in patient treatment centers, I was working with Children with severe autism during behavioral intervention therapies, and I really enjoyed working with the people. That was aspect that I was most interested in. When I graduated from grad school, I decided to take a pause and reconsider whether I wanted to do, like, six more years, which is the whole clinical route, and ended up getting into higher education and so in higher education. And I was teaching some psychology classes, and I was mostly doing advising roles. So some of them was academic advising others we're working with, um, students who were in, like, low income or, um, underrepresented under represented groups. And, um, I did that for about five years and ended up moving to Salt Lake, Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, and continued working as an advisor, academic advisor at that university and came across, um, the Masters and Information systems program, which really intrigued me because my masters have been very statistics heavy her and that was something I had been missing in a lot of my higher ed roles that I have. That wasn't a huge this. And so I completed my masters and information systems and after graduating from that program, pivoted into the tech industry and my role in the tech industry was doing implementation work. So I started as a senior project manager and then was an associate director. So had project managers and, um, implementation specialists reporting to me, and I really like that work. It was very high paced. Um, I really love the management aspect of things and just like being in the tech scene. But ultimately I transitioned out of that because I was moving back to Montana and, um, got recruited from a friend I had worked with previously to do career coaching career services management for software engineers. And so that's what I've been doing the past four years. And it's been a really great intersection of my skills because I still tend to gravitate towards more people. Focused roles and ones were him, you know, able to make an impact in that way. But it bridges the tech scene. So what I'm doing is I'm working with, um, students who are pursuing software engineering, and when they complete their program, I work with them until they get their first jobs. I'm a century their career coach and help them like prepare for that job search process. So, um, that's what I got here. That's what I'm currently doing. And I love the combination of skills that it brings in from both attack in the psychology side of things.

So in my current role as the senior career services manager, I am primarily coaching job seekers in a one on one capacity. So my typical week looks like one on one, um, advising coaching sessions with jobseekers. And that's comprised of doing things like assessing what's currently happening in their job search, figuring out What are they currently preparing for? What type of outreach are they doing? What type of interview preparation are they doing? And really, my goal is to make sure we're keeping people motivated, but also hoping them learn to articulate, um, their value essentially to other people. And that could be a challenging process for people to even realize what their value is. So that's something that I really enjoy cultivating, um, with people and the majority, I would say probably 60 to 70% is Dirar video communication. I work remotely. That is why I maybe didn't point that out when I was with him back to Montana. This is a fully remote position, which is why it intrigued me to switch over. So I worked fully remotely. So everything is videoconferencing like this. The resume, Um, but because it's videoconferencing, it's still very personalized. You get to know people, you get to see them. So probably 60 to 70% is doing video coaching, checking in and keeping people prepared. Um, and then the rest of my work is primarily follow up. Providing resource is, but the senior aspect of my role is, but I lied the entire remote campus. So I'm doing curriculum development. I'm training new coaches. I'm, you know, doing content creation for presentations, things like that. So that's more like the supplemental aspect of my job.

eso because my role is so specific, I will give some specific examples. And then I think I'm going to try and broaden my advice a little bit. That might be more applicable. So, Brandon audience, um, the challenges that I experienced specifically, um, is hoping manage, like the behavior and outcomes of jobseekers, Right? I don't have control over their preparation, and I have control over how well they present themselves. And actually, the thing that is the most challenging I think for jobseekers is jobseekers are putting themselves out there. Imagine. It's like you're on a dating app, right? You're applying to a bunch of jobs. You're hoping people are excited to hire you. Um, and you're often getting rejected. Rejected, Rejected. Right? So it can be very hard to manage and hard to deal with. And so a lot of my job is really helping people, except that rejected rejection and actually expected and not take it personally and just realize statistically, this is just what's going to happen and help them kind of persevere through that rejection and still hold their confidence and hold their value and really not let that affect how they are presenting themselves and how they're feeling about the job search, because that can really impact motivation. Success rates all of those types of things. So, um, that tends to be one of the main things that I'm focusing on or people who are having a hard time and where I would say this applies to really any role you will ever have, whether you are doing a helping profession or not. Think about it, whether it's with a collie, whether it's with your manager, whether we're all interacting with people, right. So unless you're doing a completely solo gig, you are going to have, like, this interpersonal communication. And I would say Yes, my role specifically is to motivate people. But in terms of anyone's roll, it's you want Teoh increase efficiencies and have a high degree of collaboration. And so the thing that I think everyone should work on to be the most effective in their role in really do well and be have a great, um, successful than a team is focusing on emotional intelligence. Um, the more in tune you can be with other people, the better the more you can truly listen and try and understand where somebody is coming from when you can show up to conversations and ask more questions than you do. Tell people what you think. Um, it creates a really solid balance where people feel heard where people feel like they want to work with you, where they have greater buy in for what you say. And the idea is that you suggest because they feel like you're recognizing where they're coming from and coming together to three plan, and that's really have you. What I do as coaching is like we're working together to help them, you know, achieve their goals and ultimately in any job, that's what you're you you're gonna have shared goals. And so I think just working on that like interpersonal communication, is something that, um, really Dr Success.