Episodes
March 7, 2024
8: How to Communicate Your Narrative in Your LinkedIn Headline
If you don't define your narrative, then someone else might do it for you. Why take that chance? Doug Lester shares a simple, three-part framework he picked up as an executive recruiter that you can apply to your LinkedIn hea...
Feb. 29, 2024
7: An Easier Way to Make Direct Eye Contact on Zoom – the Elgato Prompter
Making direct eye contact or what feels like direct eye contact on Zoom is hard. Beyond looking back and forth between a person's image and your camera lens, which is less than ideal, you need a teleprompter to make it work. ...
Feb. 22, 2024
6: Make Direct Eye Contact on Zoom and Improve Your Executive Presence
If conducting important meetings or being interviewed on Zoom leaves you feeling at a disadvantage, you're probably missing the direct eye contact that happens when you're meeting in-person. And your executive presence is pro...
Feb. 15, 2024
5: Stop Looking for The Perfect Job, Try This Instead
Is looking for the perfect job getting in the way of finding any job at all? This can be a problem at any stage of a career. Doug Lester offers an approach to thinking about career advancement that takes a little of the press...
Feb. 8, 2024
4: Being a Generalist is Limiting Your Career
If you're a mid or senior-level manager or executive in business and you've ever referred to yourself as a "generalist," then you're probably limiting your career potential. Based on insight he picked up as a consumer product...
Jan. 25, 2024
3: Explaining a Career Mistake (AKA a Blip)
Have you ever made a "career mistake?" Most people have — but they can be awkward to explain when you're networking or interviewing for a job. Host Doug Lester provides a straightforward, honest and effective framework for ex...
Jan. 24, 2024
2: How Mission-Driven is Your Career?
You don't have to work in a non-profit to have a mission-driven career. And your relationship to mission may change over time. Host Doug Lester shares insight he gained working in the for-profit and non-profit worlds. So what...
Jan. 23, 2024
1: What's Your Career Narrative?
If you've ever felt like the people you're networking and interviewing with just don't get you, you might need to work on your narrative. In this first episode of The Career Narratives Podcast, host Doug Lester shares an insi...
Jan. 22, 2024
The Career Narratives Podcast Trailer
Craft and communicate a work-life narrative with meaning and impact. Present as a more compelling candidate to the decision-makers who hold the keys to your career advancement. In episodes short enough for busy schedules, Dou...