Prep, Push, Pivot: Essential Career Strategies for Underrepresented Women

by Octavia Goredema

Overview

Advance your career with this insightful playbook for underrepresented women

In Prep, Push, Pivot, award-winning career coach and author Octavia Goredema delivers an indispensable career coaching guide for women looking for a new job, dealing with job loss, pivoting to a new career, or returning to the workforce after an extended absence.

You'll discover practical strategies you can implement at crucial times during your career, ensuring your considerable talents and skills are used to their full potential. In this important book, you'll:

• Discover your true worth, cement your career values, and carve out a realistic and aspirational career plan
• Learn how to position yourself for a promotion, navigate a break in your career, and integrate your role as a mother or caregiver with your professional life
• Deal with monumental career changes, contribute to the development of the women around you, and benefit from an array of professional resources in your journey forward

Perfect for women who are ready to overcome any obstacles that await them, Prep, Push, Pivot is a thoughtful road map to help women chart their professional and personal success.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781119789079
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	01/12/2022
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	1,082,700
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

OCTAVIA GOREDEMA is an award-winning career coach and writer who focuses on advancing career opportunities for underrepresented professionals and accelerating diversity, inclusion, and equity. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, Grazia magazine, Black Enterprise, and more.

Table of Contents

Introduction: My Commitment to Your Career ix

Part I Prep 1

1 Know Your Worth 3

2 How to Bounce Back When You Lose Your Job 25

3 Landing the Salary You Deserve 49

Part II Push 73

4 How to Position Yourself for a Promotion 75

5 How to Navigate a Career Break 101

6 Achieving Your Goals While Caring for Your Family 121

Part III Pivot 141

7 How to Pull Off a Career Change 143

8 Be Pivotal by Paying It Forward 167

9 Dream Bigger Career Toolkit 181

References 203

Acknowledgments 209

About the Author 211

Index 213

Editorial Reviews

"Most of us will be feeling pretty exhausted right about now, maybe even unmotivated as we've made the pivot from working from home/living at work. This insightful book from renowned career coach Octavia Goredema is all about boosting women of colour in whatever stage they're at with their careers: dealing with job loss, searching for a new job, looking to overhaul their career or return after time out."
—Refinery29

"Need some work motivation? Author Octavia Goredema is an award-winning career coach and this is an indispensable guide for women looking for a new job, dealing with job loss, pivoting to a new career, or returning to the workforce after an extended absence."
—Cosmopolitan UK

From the Publisher

Listening to this audiobook is like experiencing a personal coaching session that inspires a renewed sense of purpose and determination. Narrator Zoleka Vundla is engaging and passionate as she addresses the current lack of representation of women of color in the workplace. In a conversational, knowledgeable tone, she provides practical tools, personal stories, and questions for reflection to educate and inspire. After hearing about such topics as knowing your worth, determining your career goals, negotiating a raise, changing careers, returning to the workforce, and paying it forward, listeners will feel ready to take on their personal journeys and encourage others as well. A powerful and motivational listen. K.S.M. 2023 Audies Finalist © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine

MARCH 2023 - AudioFile