Flexibility May Be The Best Option for Your Career Pivot With Brie Reynolds [Podcast] - Career Pivot

Adaptability May Be The Best Option for Your Career Pivot With Brie Reynolds [Podcast] - Career Pivot Scene 31 â€" Flexibility comes in a few styles in the present work world. Depiction: Brie Reynolds is Marc's master visitor in this scene. Brie is the Senior Career Specialist at FlexJobs, the honor winning site for remote work, adaptable calendar and independent employment postings. She causes individuals engage themselves to secure positions that fit their lives by giving useful data, assets, and bits of knowledge into adaptable employments and the eventual fate of work. With a foundation in HR and vocation exhorting, Brie has 12 years' experience working with jobseekers and businesses, and she offers profession recruiting and work/life balance counsel through the FlexJobs blog, news sources like Fast Company, Forbes, and NBC News. Marc and Brie start the conversation with an outline of the beginnings of FlexJobs, the development adaptable chances, how Brie got included, and the sorts of work FlexJobs highlights on its site. They talk about the four proportions of adaptability of work, the sorts of organizations offering adaptability, the kinds of occupations offered, and the reasons an individual may look for adaptability in business. Brie offers tips for getting ready to go after a position with adaptability, and how to make yourself stand apart as a strong benefactor. Tune in to find out about the pattern of adaptability in work, and how you may acquire an adaptable position. Key Takeaways: [3:08] Brie depicts herself, and her energy for 'work stuff.' [3:42] FlexJobs is a pursuit of employment administration, with a couple of key contrasts, having some expertise in working from home and adaptable occupations for experts. Every one of them have some adaptability, and a considerable lot of them are for remote work. This is FlexJobs' tenth year! [4:24] In 2006, Sara, the CEO and Founder, was laid off late in her pregnancy. She had established a pursuit of employment organization in school, and furthermore had held significant level positions. Searching for work, she needed the adaptability to telecommute. Adaptable occupations were uncommon. She knew there must be others in her position. In the wake of conceiving an offspring, she established FlexJobs. Download Link |iTunes|Stitcher Radio|Google Podcast|Podbean|TuneIn|Overcast [6:03] Brie is the Senior Career Specialist, and assists individuals with finding out about the adaptable occupations advertise. She composes articles, has online courses, and has press and media meetings to get the message out, so work searchers can set themselves up to get a new line of work with adaptability. [7:37] The universe of adaptable or remote work has changed drastically, and a great deal of that is because of innovation. Marc is in Austin, and Brie is in Boston, and they are recording this digital broadcast over free programming. Marc is recording it on programming that cost him $19.00. [8:03] Brie began searching for adaptable work around eight years prior, when her better half jumped on a rotational profession track. Brie had filled in as a school vocation guide. Her first adaptable activity was as a client support work telecommuting. She cherished telecommuting, however not client care. Somebody from the organization put her in contact with Sara. [10:04] This proposal from her colleague to apply to work for Sara at FlexJobs was the best systems administration experience she had ever had. This individual had worked at Sara's prior quest for new employment firm, before she had sold it. Brie met, and wound up composing low maintenance at home for FlexJobs, as one of nine representatives at that point. [10:36] Brie adored it. It permitted her to offer profession guidance, and find out about this better approach for working, to realize which organizations were doing extraordinary at it, and what kinds of employments were perfect with adaptable work. The organization moved around, and is currently in Boston. In seven years she has gone from adaptable, to full-time, and back to adaptable low maintenance. [11:40] Marc used to run an assistance work area for IBM, supporting 500 architects while he removed their drafting sheets and put them on CAD/CAM screens. He likewise used to prepare overall specialized help individuals. He knows conversing with miserable individuals throughout the day can mess spirit up. Certain individuals can do it, and others can't. [13:04] FlexJobs considers occupations that have adaptability in any of four zones: hours (low maintenance to full-time); plan; working from home; and outsourcing. They list occupations in 55 vocation handle; the sort of work decides the kind of adaptability. There are such a significant number of organizations that offer adaptable work, however not generally in a similar way. [15:40] FlexJobs offers a blend of worker and independent employments on the site. The independent assignments may most recent a month and a half to a half year or more, as opposed to being brisk errands. [16:43] Marc currently needs more command over when and where he gets things done, than over what he does. He needs to work less time doing what he jumps at the chance to do. Brie sees that sort of candidate, alongside individuals who are hoping to propel their professions and develop their duties; additionally, individuals who need to make a stride back for some time. [18:02] FlexJobs has C-level occupations, working from home VP positions, and Executive Directors, and employments with no progression, just adaptability, for example, client support and information passage. [18:32] Brie refers to a case of a retiree who required the adaptability to go around the nation in a RV. She found a conduct training position for an insurance agency, utilizing her experience in medication. Others simply need to change to an alternate position or vocation, and play an adaptable job as a major aspect of their turn. [21:13] Some individuals simply start another vocation and start as independent, or low maintenance, and stir their way up to a full-time position in their new field. [23:41] In applying for adaptable work, consider in the event that you have past adaptable experience. What aptitudes did you use to center? What programming did you use to speak with associates? Put these on your LinkedIn profile. Organizations need you to have the option to investigate fundamental blunders at home. Tout correspondences aptitudes, and conferencing devices. [28:09] Former business people hoping to change back to the corporate world, carry extraordinary aptitudes with them. Adaptable work and independent work are comparative conditions. [31:08] Marc's last words: To join the FlexJobs people group, if you don't mind click on the FlexJobs advertisement at the base of any of Marc's CareerPivot blogposts. He is a pleased member of FlexJobs. Referenced in This Episode: Repurpose Your Career: A Practical Guide for the Second Half of Life, by Marc Miller and Susan Lahey (Now accessible on the web) Contact Marc, and pose inquiries at: Careerpivot.com/get in touch with me Call Marc at 512-693-9132 and leave a message and email address. 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