Managing Your Career Through COVID-19 and Beyond

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In today’s episode, Thom Singer and Craig Brown are joined by Vantage Associates CEO and CCO Kevin Wright to discuss ways to effectively manage career transitions during a pandemic and beyond.  In his career Kevin moved from engineering and sales to CEO and he knows the steps that it takes to advance a career in any situation.  He shares ideas for developing professional resilience and networking advice that can take you from the job you have to the job you want.  He also explains the importance of promoting your skills rather than your job titles, and recommends the tools and the mindset that will increase your productivity and your marketability, even during a pandemic.  </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On today’s podcast, you will learn:</span></p> <p><strong>OEM limitations in a time of pandemic</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The pandemic has amplified the challenge of bandwidth limitations. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Limited availability among users creates a problem with getting work done during business hours.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Physical security tokens can limit the ability to transfer work to another person. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Answers to these limitations can be found in the cloud. </span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Developing professional resilience </strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Look to the more advanced professionals for tried-and-true advice. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Managing transitions requires building on the work that you were doing and applying it to the work you want to do. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Resiliency comes in knowing how to assign value to the problems you have solved.