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Podcast Ep 15: How the Jump Start Your Career Program landed Christina her new job.

Marina Pitisano — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 21:00:46 +0000

Developing job search tools to help you STAND OUT makes all the difference

Learn how participating in the interactive and online learning program, Jump Start Your Career, enabled Christina to achieve career success. In this podcast, Christina shares how the program helped her overcome the frustration of job searching. She explains how she was able to create a stand out resume, understand job ads, write a cover letter, prepare for interviews and what to do after an interview. Christina also learned valuable networking skills and how to create goals and action plans to achieve her new job.

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Marina Pitisano

I am a passionate Career Coach who works with individuals in the explore and search phase of their career journey, helping you realise your strengths through my career coaching and training programs. I enjoy showing people the path to greater career satisfaction and providing insight and tools to help you make your next career move.

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Podcast Ep 14: Jumping from job to job leads to career success in real estate for Julia

Marina Pitisano — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 21:00:53 +0000

Learn why choosing to work with a career coach was the best decision of Julia’s life

Julia moved from job to job without really having a clear career path for her future. When she moved to a new city, Julia realised she didn’t want to be the sales girl forever. After months of trying to job search on her own, Julia enlisted the help of Marina, a professional career coach. She now refers to it as “the best decision of my life.” Working with Marina gave Julia an opportunity to explore new opportunities that she hadn’t considered before. Together they identified strengths, skills and passions and developed a strategy to achieve Julia’s career success in real estate.

Marina Pitisano

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Podcast Ep 13: The future of work is here now. Learn how to move forward.

Marina Pitisano — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 02:52:59 +0000

Exploring what the future looks like for job seekers and employers.

In this podcast we explore the future of work – the technologies, the social expectations, the convergence of what we do and how we do it. Isabel shares with us how we can move forward with the future of work in a holistic way. We also discuss the types of roles job seekers need to explore, how to be agile, what skills are needed to survive and how decision making by leaders is changing.

Marina Pitisano

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Podcast Ep 12: How Alli positioned herself to achieve first place in her job search

Marina Pitisano — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 22:00:11 +0000

Having the right person on your team will help you refocus and reframe.

When you’re job searching it’s easy to let doubt and uncertainty creep in when you constantly keep getting knocked back. Alli was frustrated and lost confidence in herself when she kept coming second at job interviews. She sought the assistance of a Career Coach who objectively helped her assess and understand where things were going wrong. Marina helped Alli carefully plan and prepare herself to cross the finish line and achieve Career Success in her job search journey.

Marina Pitisano

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Podcast Ep 10: Scott survives redundancy and steers toward Career Success

Marina Pitisano — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 22:00:46 +0000

Navigating a changing career landscape is difficult until you find the right person to guide you.

Scott was thrown in to the world of the unknown when he was made redundant. He’d been employed and felt safe in an executive role for over 15 years. It had been a long time since he had to write a resume and cover letter, let alone attend an interview. The whole process seemed overwhelming until he connected with Marina. It took lots of courage to admit he needed help and he hasn’t looked back since.

Marina Pitisano

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2016: The Year I Was Blindsided!

Marina Pitisano — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 01:26:55 +0000

It has been an extremely tough year for me and so I will be glad to say goodbye to 2016. Earlier in the year I found myself faced with a very unexpected event that forced me to re-think my approach. I think this is called being ‘blindsided’, which means I did not see it coming.

What this has meant for me personally is that I have found myself forced with having to face a set of circumstances that weren’t part of my plan. And I had some big plans this year!

If you’ve ever experienced being blindsided in this way then you’ll know how paralysing it can be. And as someone who runs my own business, where it is important to be ‘up’ and generating ideas, it’s been tough!

When you are trying to cope it’s really hard to innovate.

It’s also really hard to think about the future.

And your focus becomes about getting through the day.

Some mornings, when I was first processing the shock of the situation, I found myself lying in bed, not looking forward to the day.

I felt unsure and insecure about what to do.

My ‘worrying’ started to impact on my physical state and my breathing became irregular. Thinking it was perhaps related to my heart, I visited my local GP. She helped me understand that what I was experiencing was in fact anxiety, and this was as a result of how I was emotionally responding to the circumstances I had found myself in.

Anxiety in Australia

During Mental Health week back in October I read some statistics about anxiety that surprised me (but in some ways was reassuring as I realised I was not alone). Did you know that anxiety is the most common mental health condition in Australia? On average, 1 in 4 people – 1 in 3 women and 1 in 5 men – will experience anxiety.

Anxiety is an uncomfortable feeling of fear or imminent threat and is a normal emotional response to danger. It can be part of your genetic and biochemical make-up, as well as a part of your personality. There are many things that can trigger anxiety, such as your environment, stressful situations like exams, work pressure, family problems or a trauma.

Anxiety is also a very individual response. What makes one person anxious may not have the same effect on another person.

Feeling anxious is often perfectly normal, but there also times when it may interfere with normal day-to-day activities.

Dealing with the Heaviness I Felt

For me the anxiety felt heavy. It was a mental load I was carrying that drained me of my energy. When I got up each morning I already felt tired as I had spent the night worrying. I had to make my way through each day trying to push through this heavy load.

And you know what I said to myself?

Don’t give up.

Find a glimmer of hope.

Work through it.

On good days I thought of a positive affirmation, focused on my intention for the day and what I wanted to attract. I also found myself saying a few extra prayers.

There were days when I did not ask for help and I stayed in the darkness of my worries.

And there were days that I did ask for help.

Are You Okay?

If you are wondering, I am okay.

What I learnt was that you have to believe in yourself.

You have to believe in what you are doing.

And you have to ride out the darkness.

If you’ve been feeling blindsided lately, I feel your pain.

I am a passionate Career Consultant who works with individuals in the explore and search phase of their career journey, helping you realise your strengths through my career coaching and training programs. I enjoy showing people the path to greater career satisfaction and providing insight and tools to help you make your next career move.

Sources:

https://www.beyondblue.org.au/the-facts

https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/anxiety

https://www.adaa.org/tips-manage-anxiety-and-stress

Marina Pitisano

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