SPARKing Career Resilience
summary
SPARK presents a practical resilience method: name automatic thoughts with Parrots of Perception and put them on trial using the S P A R K steps Situation Perception Autopilot Reaction Knowledge to defuse negative reactions. Career advice includes concrete actions: audit transferable skills, list gaps, take extension courses (Harvard Berkeley Stanford offered examples), seek shadowing or sponsors, and extend into roles that build visibility — a DBA role becomes a golden ticket example. Pandemic data gives urgency: 80% of 1.1M who left were women.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker intro
- 1:49Career resilience overview
- 6:49Personal career journey insights
- 13:51Building career resilience tips
- 15:37Transition to next speaker
- 17:00Identifying transferable skills intro
- 23:25Five-step career navigation hack
- 28:01Transferable skills deep dive
- 30:05Planning for skill gaps
- 33:16Listing areas of growth
- 34:59Networking and application strategy
- 36:45Final advice and Q&A
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