What's Career Got To Do With It?

By: Duke Career Center
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  • Welcome to the -What's Career Got to Do With It- podcast, where we hope to provide a space for honest conversation and information that encourages the listener to take the next steps in their career journey. Wherever you are in this process, we hope this episode will meet you with affirmation, guidance, and maybe some laughs along the way. Enjoy, Rudi, Ängela, Kai, Nicole and our guests.
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  • Who is the Duke Career Center?

    Who is the Duke Career Center?
    Sep 12 2022
    Transcript: Michael "Rudi" ...: Hello and welcome to the What's Career Got to Do With it podcast, where we hope to provide a space for honest conversation and information that encourages the listener to take the next steps in their career journey. Wherever you are at in this process, we hope this episode will meet you with affirmation, guidance, and maybe some laughs along the way. On today's episode, we will discuss and answer or many to the question, who is the Career Center? Without further ado, I'm going to have my colleagues joining me today answer a few questions about themselves, such as name, title, career, community, and also what does Career Everywhere mean to you? Nicole Mitchell: Well, hello everybody. My name is Nicole Mitchell, and I am the Associate Director of Career Readiness within the Career Center. I've been here for about a year and a half, almost two years in December. Career Everywhere means to me that I have abundant resources in places that I would never think of to look. So not only the Career Center, but I have my professors, I have my family, I have my friends, I have people on LinkedIn that I've never even met who are resources for me. So it is career, literally quite everywhere. Ängela Bonner: Wow, that was awesome. Nicole. This is Angela Bonner. I am an assistant director in the Career Center and I manage the education, government, nonprofit and policy career community here. Career Everywhere, for me, and I'm going to put it on our side, is just being in places where you may not think we are and finding those people that are in your typical places of classrooms. We might be in the office, we might be in the quad, just out there ready to help you with what you need. Kai Kelley, Jr.: Awesome. Just to round us out, my name is Kai Kelly, Jr. I serve as a career advisor for the Discovery Exploration Career Community. For me, Career Everywhere ties back to the Career Center's, guiding principles of relevancy, visibility and inclusivity, and thinking about having conversations about careers across campus. Michael "Rudi" ...: Those are my colleagues and my name is Michael Rudisill. Everybody calls me Rudi. I'm an assistant director in the Career Center as well, and I help to manage the healthcare and life science community. Career Everywhere for me is thinking about walking down the streets, seeing someone waiting at the traffic light, waiting to cross the road, and something comes up about their shoes, and then all of a sudden you figure out, "Oh, we like the same things." Then you keep talking. Next thing you know, you've got this new idea or opportunity to discover what their next steps are. Literally, that was corny. I'm sorry. Ängela Bonner: But Rudi always has one for us, so get ready folks. Buckle up. Michael "Rudi" ...: So what do we mean when we talk about things like Career Everywhere and career communities? Can we give a rundown of what this Career Center is? Maybe the most surface level explanation of what the Career Center is and what career communities are? Nicole Mitchell: So I'm going to start off and say this one, we do more than resume reviews. Shocker, shocker, shocker. I know everybody, I know it. But the Career Center is really your one stop shop for all of the thoughts that you are starting to have and all of the thoughts you will continue to have through your tenure here at Duke, on internships, career, goals, setting plans, practicing interviews, networking, informational interviewing, and I could go on and on and on, but I know I have some colleagues that have more for me as well. Ängela Bonner: Well, I would say, just to piggyback on Nicole, obviously with what she listed, you may not have it. So, we are a space where you do not have to have it all together. That's what we are here for, to help you develop yourself so that you can be that young professional once you walk across that stage. Hopefully soon. Our seniors are about to do it in a semester too. But just again, just
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    19 mins
  • What if I haven't found my purpose?

    What if I haven't found my purpose?
    Sep 13 2022
    Transcript: Michael "Rudi" ...: Hello, and welcome to The What's Career Got To Do With It? podcast, where we hope to provide a space for honest conversation and information that encourages the listener to take the next steps in their career journey. Wherever you're at in this process, we hope this episode will meet you with affirmation, guidance, and maybe some laughs along the way. On today's episode, we will discuss an answer or many to the questions of, "What if I haven't found my purpose?" Nicole Mitchell: Question of the day. Michael "Rudi" ...: Have you guys found it? Nicole Mitchell: I'm still working on it and that's okay. Michael "Rudi" ...: I feel like that could be a response to a lot of things to say, "And that's okay." Well, it depends. Nicole Mitchell: Absolutely. Michael "Rudi" ...: You need to make money, then yes, you need to find your purpose. Nicole Mitchell: And it's okay. Michael "Rudi" ...: But for real, though, maybe we begin with a little bit of sharing surrounding that, and our understanding of purpose and the work that we're doing, and what the meaningful work we're doing. So what is your why of the work that you do? Nicole Mitchell: Yeah, I think, for me, it was definitely wanting to give back what was given to me. So I was a sophomore in undergrad. I had no idea what I wanted to do career wise. I was a pre-med major for a semester, and then got all that chemistry on my schedule and said, "Mm-mm. Nope, not going to do that." So then I switched to pre-law and actually fell in love with it. But randomly, I had a roommate and she got work study in the athletic department. And one day, she came back and she was just miserable and I was like, "What's going on?" She's like, "I hate my work study." I was like, "Okay, well, tomorrow, I'll go with you." And I went with her and I fell in love. It was media relations. We were doing all of that. And I had some amazing mentors along the way. And essentially, that led me to finding my purpose of being a servant leader, wanting students to be okay with plan B, C, and D, and hoping that in some way, I could inspire students to have comfort in knowing they don't have to have it all planned out right when they hit 19 and 20. I had people along the way do that for me and I've always felt it my purpose to give that back. Ängela Bonner: Well, how about you, Kai? Kai Kelley, Jr.: I was thinking about it [inaudible] Michael "Rudi" ...: Kai is over there in deep thought. Kai Kelley, Jr.: I honestly was. I was in a trance and it was just about what is our why behind what we do. I think for me, it comes from a couple of different places. I think when I look at my family background, a lot of the way that we treat one another and how we look at our community through service of either through faith or education, I think that informed in the background, what I decided to do as a profession. But intentionally I wasn't thinking of it that way. It was just always something that you had to do to be a decent human being and community member through service, whether it be advising, having conversations, being a listening ear for somebody. And so for me, I took it from that standpoint. I didn't know I could turn that into a purposeful career. So I think that's what I was zoning out about, and I was thinking about Chick-fil-A. Ängela Bonner: Not sponsored, not sponsored, but Chick-fil-A. Not sponsored. Kai Kelley, Jr.: We just like the food. We'll discuss their mission and purpose later, but we love their food. Ängela Bonner: Wow. Kai, I think we were kind of on the same wavelength, which is why I'm looking at you like that. I think for me, I come from a family of servants, and it's just what you do. And I think during my process in undergrad, I knew what I wanted to do and I did it. But then I had to think about what Nicole was talking about, playing A, B, and C. I like to call it a parallel plan. I have athletic training background and I knew I didn't want to be 50 years old pickin
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    21 mins
  • When is the 'right' time to change paths?

    When is the 'right' time to change paths?
    Sep 13 2022
    Transcript: Nicole Mitchell: Hello and welcome to the What's Career got to Do with It podcast, where we hope to provide a space for honest conversation and information that encourages a listener to take the next steps in their career journey. Wherever you are at this process, we hope that this episode will meet you with affirmation, guidance, and maybe some laughs along the way. On today's episode, we will discuss an answer, or many, to the question, when is the right time to change paths? This is a deep one, this is a deep one. Michael "Rudi" ...: Never. Stay in the same place forever, as long as you can. Ängela Bonner: Consistency. Nicole Mitchell: So, I mean, let me open it up this way, right? The two of you, have you been in the same career for the whole entire time that you've been employed? Michael "Rudi" ...: No. I thought I was going to be playing football on Sunday and then, well, some height differences. Yeah, didn't work. Nicole Mitchell: How about you Angela? Ängela Bonner: No, definitely not. I started out as an athletic trainer on the field, on the football field. Nicole Mitchell: And I thought I was going to be a neurosurgeon. Ängela Bonner: Well, there you have it. Nicole Mitchell: So that kind answers the question, when is the right time to change paths? And to me, I think really it's when you have this feeling that something is not completely fulfilling you and you feel like you could potentially provide more in a different space. I think that's kind of the first thing that comes to mind for me. What about you guys? Michael "Rudi" ...: For me, it's more so along the lines of where is my health at. And not just your physical health, it's the overall spectrum of health, or from a wholeness perspective, looking at our spiritual, emotional, mental, physical health, yes, and taking those all into consideration. And sometimes those are going to decline, and it's not just your work or life balance that causes those to decline, it's numerous factors, life changes that may impact those. But it's when things that are not supposed to be making those things suffer, cause them to suffer. And that could be something along the lines of things that are either outside of your control or even within your control. And sometimes the best way to take retake control of our health is to make a transition step. So I always think about it from that standpoint. Ängela Bonner: I'm going to lead with this as a question my mom always asks my brother and I, are you happy? And if you're not, you need to find a way to get there. And so with that, for me, it's just a gut instinct. I know that this is not right and I got to figure out how to make it right again. And like you were saying, Rudi, finding that balance is so key. Am I drained every time I leave whatever I'm doing? Or am I just tired because I worked today and I can be refreshed tomorrow and go again? Michael "Rudi" ...: And I'm going to be honest to y'all, I'm not a fan of the word pivot. I don't watch Friends, sorry to everybody that watches the TV show Friends. I think there's some weird studies out there about generational differences of when people watch Friends and it's a resurgence of it, nineties, whatever. But the point is pivot, no, I don't look at is it a pivot either. And so every time I hear the question of changing career paths and making that pivot point, I'm like, why can't we reframe this? So what do y'all think? Is there a way to reframe that pivot? Ängela Bonner: Progression. Nicole Mitchell: Yeah, I had a mentor once, and it was funny because I was actually on their podcast. And when I was talking, I was talking about my pivot from athletics to higher education. And after it was done, my mentor said, let's get rid of that word pivot. So you can say you decided to explore a new journey. You've decided to experience new experiences, right? Because I think she had the same thing, a little bit of anxiety with that word pivot. So just thinking about ways to refr
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    23 mins

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