Take Your Message to the Next Level with Cliff Ravenscraft

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Have you ever wondered how to start a podcast or if you could do it on your own?

The answer is: Yes. Absolutely.

Whether you want to start your own podcast as a hobby or if you want to make the switch to start your own business, it is possible to get your own podcast going even if you have no experience.

So, if you’re looking for some guidance to start your own podcast, you’re in luck! We’ve got the Podcast Answer Man himself, Cliff Ravenscraft, as our guest.

Listen in as Cliff not only shares his experience on how he got to where he is now in the podcasting world, but he also shares some tips on how to start your own podcast (with very minimal equipment required)!

Cliff Ravenscraft has built his podcasting business from the ground up and is proof that making a big career change is possible. He is “a firm believer that if you Pursue Your Passion, The Money Will Follow!”

He’s on top of the podcast game and has shared a step-by-step process to create a podcast for those of you looking to start your own podcast. Check it out below!

FIRST THING’S FIRST – GET STARTED! HOW TO START A PODCAST:

STEP 1- Head to your nearest electronics store or hit amazon.com for a microphone

(Recommendation: Check out the audio-technica ATR2100)

STEP 2-Download the software,  Audacity® – Audacity® is free, open source, cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing

STEP 3- Plug in your new microphone & hit the record button

STEP 4- Start talking. Share your heart and your message to the world.

STEP 5- Save your audio file as an mp3 file when you’re done recording
– If you’re using Audacity, you’re going to need to download the LAME encoder (you can find more information about the download here)

  • Once you download the LAME encoder, update your preferences in Audacity to create mp3 files by opening Audacity’s preferences

Click on the “Locate” button

  • Click on the “Browse” button, and locate your LAME encoder library

(Some people may choose to record their podcast through Apple’s Garage Band application, but end up saving their file as an m4 or A-file, but the universal platform for these files is an mp3 file)

STEP 6- Setup a RSS feed – hardest step of the process!

  • Take that file and paste it into WordPress (or whichever RSS feed platform works for you) for publication by creating a new post and filling in the title of your podcast episode, episode description, and check the box “Post Libsyn Episode” to publish through Libsyn
  • Upload your episode to the post
  • Fill in the necessary information just as you did on Libsyn and publish your episode

STEP 7- Take that RSS feed from your WordPress (or whichever RSS feed platform you chose) to iTunes Connect and sign in with your Apple ID

STEP 8- Enter your RSS feed URL and click “Validate”

STEP 9- Review your work, fix any errors , and click “Validate” again

STEP 10- Last preview and click “Submit Podcast” (It may take 2 days to get approved after you submit your podcast for review)

BOOM! Congratulations! You now have a LIVE podcast in iTunes!

SIMPLE, BUT NOT EASY.

The real difficult part is actually coming up with what to say because you have to think about:

  • How do you want to say it?
  • How to communicate it?
  • How do you get better at communicating it?
  • How to do you say it without saying “um” a million times?

But even if you do say “um” a million times, starting your podcast now will allow you to practice and allow you to get better (without saying “um” so many times!).

SHARE AND GIVE YOUR MESSAGE AWAY TO PEOPLE.

So, ask yourself, are you discontent with your day job and have been dreaming of starting your own podcast? Maybe you’re inspired by it to make a change?

Bottom line: If you’re looking to start a podcast for a profit (or hobby), start any new business venture, or if you’re ready for a career change, GET STARTED NOW.

ABOUT CLIFF RAVENSCRAFT

Cliff Ravenscraft has successfully made the jump from an insurance agent with a hobby producing a podcast about his favorite TV show to a full-time podcast producer and a Podcasting and New Media consultant/coach. He has produced more than 2,800 individual episodes of more than 20 different shows.

Cliff continues to help people take their message and their life to the next level by creating content that is entertaining, educational, encouraging, & inspirational and bringing them closer to who they are meant to be.

RELEVANT LINKS AND RESOURCES

HTYC RESOURCES
HTYC How-To Guide: How-to Create a WordPress Website for an Online Business or Blog
HTYC Episode 100: The 100th Episode! 

Tune into Cliff’s podcast, Podcast Answer Man

Follow Cliff on Twitter: @cliffeotc.

Check out Cliff on youtube.

Follow Cliff on Facebook.

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Making It Happen: Three Years & Counting! A Special Anniversary Q & A with Scott & Mark

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THREE YEARS! YEAH!

Thank you all for continuing to tune in! Without you, these three years wouldn’t have flown by so quickly!

If you’ve been here from the beginning (THANK YOU again for your support!), or if you’ve just recently joined us (THANK YOU again and welcome to the HTYC community!), I hope that we’ve been helpful to your career journey so far and I continue to encourage you to take the bull by the horns and make your dream career a reality.

Today, my good friend and one of HTYC’s biggest supporters (from DAY ONE!), Mark Sieverkropp, is here to help me shed some light on some of the questions that you have sent in over the years.

If you’ve tried to convince yourself that:

“There’s no way that I can make money doing what I’m passionate about…”

or

“There’s no way that I can find my dream career…a career that exists on my own terms…”

or

“There’s no way that I can build my own business on what i really want to do because I don’t have any experience…”

I’m here to tell you that it is possible. If I can do it, YOU can do it, too.

It can happen. You can make a living by doing what you’re passionate about. If you’re not sure about what that is yet, don’t worry. You will figure it out.

The best part is that you don’t have to have it ALL figured out right away.

Design Your Life on Your Own Terms

In order to design the life and career that you want, you are going to need to evaluate where you want to go by looking at all the other aspects in your life: family, hobbies, work-life balance needs, etc.

If you say that you want a job that is flexible, challenging, and allows you an opportunity to make a difference, you need to define what you think is flexible, challenging, and what making a difference means to you. Ask yourself the hard questions and be honest in your answers.

Embrace the thought process that will get you where you want to go. Have fun in discovering what it is that you like doing, what you don’t like doing, and what will make work interesting for you.

Once you’ve gained some clarity in what you’re looking for in your career, you can now figure out the best way to actually get there.

It’s a progression, a career journey.

Dig Away At It

Once you define what you want out of your career and are clear on the answers to those hard questions, then you can dig away at forging that path to where you’ve decided to go, but don’t rush the process.

The key is starting the movement. Don’t just sit there and daydream about it or doubt yourself. Take action, do things one day at a time to move yourself closer to what you want, whether it is starting your own business or changing careers.

Taking action NOW in the direction that you want to go, is the second biggest step to achieving your career goals.

If you find yourself running into a roadblock along the way, don’t panic. Let it sit for a bit. Then, get back to it. Develop new skills that will help you get there and keep the ball rolling.

Connect the Dots

Once you’re in a groove, you’re going to be able to look back on how far you’ve come and notice your own patterns.

These connections will allow you to continue to work through your process with more clarity to get down to what you enjoy and where your strengths lie.

I think it’s interesting how our career paths meander back and forth, and the things just kind of fall into place.

 Mark Sieverkropp
Enjoy Your Career Journey

Remember to have the patience in your own process. Take advantage of your resources. Continue to evaluate and re-evaluate your progress.

When you do that, you can ask yourself, “Does my current path get me closer to what I want or does it bring me further away?”

As one of our listeners, Kelly, mentioned, “While the road will be long; I have a lot to learn. I am for the first time (maybe ever) excited about the prospect of my career and confident that I have the resources available to make it happen.”

With time, you WILL make it happen.

Just think, that once you get to that place, you’ll be able to look back and realize that it didn’t take nearly as long as you thought it would.

Whether you’re here for help in your job search, or need guidance on your career change, or if you’re looking to find some tips on how to go about starting your own business, HTYC can help with all of that!

We’re here as a resource to get you started on your path to a new career, offer you career coaching, or even mentor you in getting your business up and running.

Click below and join our upcoming live workshop on October 2nd or October 3rd and let us help you reach your goals!

RELEVANT LINKS AND RESOURCES

Check out what Mark’s been working on at www.backyardsoccercoach.com

Drop Mark an email at: mark@happentoyourcareer.com

EPISODES MENTIONED ON THE SHOW

Episode 021 Work Happy! with Jo Casey 
Episode 109 The Easy Stuff is the Gold with David Ralph

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Bringing Authenticity into the Workplace with Joanie Connell

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What do you like doing?

Does it make an appearance at your day job?

Bringing more of yourself and being authentic to who you are at your core into your workplace should be mandatory.

Being authentic in your life and career is more beneficial to your success in your career than being a certain persona that your career molds you to be.

Maybe you’ve come to realize that the career path that you’re on isn’t exactly as you’ve always thought it would be. Maybe you’re already playing with the idea of a career change and don’t know where to start. Or maybe you feel like you’ve invested so much of your life at your job and don’t want to start from scratch.

Does any of that sound familiar?

If it is the fear of starting fresh in a whole different career or new industry that is stopping you from finding a new path where you can be authentic in your work, don’t worry about that. All is not lost as you change careers, every experience counts and the skills you gain throughout your career journey will be carried with you, adding more value to your skill set. Changing careers to align your work with who you are is not only liberating, but it will also give you better chances for long-term career success and fulfillment.

Our guest, Joanie Connell, knows exactly how it feels to be doing work that she was slowly losing interest in as her passions began to come into light.

For her, the importance of being authentic in her work led her to leave her engineering career and go back to school to dig deeper into her passion for people. She was also able to carry her experiences in the technology and engineering field into her new business venture as a consultant.

ABOUT JOANIE CONNELL

Dr. Joanie B. Connell is a Harvard-educated engineer and holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently working as a leadership coach and organizational consultant. She consults with organizations in a variety of areas, including executive leadership development, diversity, generations, flexible work arrangements, work-life balance, life transitions, character and ethics, team building, and virtual teams.  Her clients are from Fortune 100 companies, not-for-profit, and government agencies and high tech, biotech, healthcare, finance, legal and other industries.

Joanie has focused her career on helping people improve their success and happiness in their careers. She specializes in maximizing leadership potential and is the author of the book, “Flying without a Helicopter: How to Prepare Young People for Work and Life.”

Listen to our chat with Joanie as she shares her story of how leaving her engineering career to live a more authentic life to pursue a career that fueled her passion for helping people while utilizing her strengths in leadership.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
  • Pay attention to that “A-ha” moment of finding what you really enjoy doing
  • Being authentic in your career is key – being able to align your work with who you are as a person is liberating
  • Having resilience to stay strong through your failures as they happen can lead to something better
RELEVANT LINKS AND RESOURCES

Follow Joanie on Twitter: @ConnellLessons.

Learn more onJoanie’s website.

Like Joanie on Facebook.

Check out Joanie’s book, Flying Without a Helicopter: How to Prepare Young People for Work and Life

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Finding Your Confidence By Getting Comfortable in the Discomfort with Maxie McCoy

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Discomfort: noun dis·com·fort \dis-ˈkəm-fərt\
1. Mental or physical uneasiness, 2. A feeling of being somewhat worried, unhappy, etc.

Are you comfortable with being uncomfortable?

Are you in a place in your life, whether in your career or not, that makes you feel uneasy? Maybe you’re stuck in limbo wondering if you need to start transitioning out of your current career.

It’s hard work to reflect during these times in our lives that make us feel stuck. Reflection and being completely honest with ourselves about where we are in our lives and where we want to be isn’t an easy task. It’s difficult to identify the things that are really important to us. But, we have to do it if we want to move forward.

Our guest, Maxie McCoy, shares that one of the first things you want to do while getting out of what seems like this career crisis is to re-frame the negative. Take this situation and turn it into a chance to put work into something that lights you up again.

Do something that will allow you to show up. It’s usually in those happy, passion-filled moments where you’re able to clear your mind and re-focus on the things that you want and the things that you need to do to get what you want.

Whether you’re thinking of starting your own business, asking for what you deserve in a negotiation, or starting a blog, you need to start re-framing the negativity that surrounds the unknown- that fear that brings you discomfort. Turn it around and start developing an appetite for the discomfort. It is only in those uncomfortable, even doubtful times that something big can happen.

It’s in those trying times where you can spin that wheel of “I-CAN-DO-THIS” and move forward. The more you get comfortable with being uncomfortable, your confidence will grow. With that growth, the level of discomfort that you can handle gets bigger.

When you look back, you’ll wonder why you even worried to begin with, because when you look back at all of the times you’ve pushed through your discomfort, you’ll now have a “beautiful reflection of where you’ve moved your life to.”

ABOUT MAXIE MCCOY

Maxie McCoy, a former broadcast journalist turned career expert is obsessed with her mission to inspire billions. She is a self-described cheerleader for the people that is passionate about providing people with the tools that they need for them to believe in themselves.
Maxie began her journey to inspire by designing and building out the global offline communities for Levo League, the #1 career destination for millennials. She is now a one-woman road tour of inspiration and career advice.

Listen to our chat with Maxie as she shares how leaving her career comfort zone lead her to a much bigger and brighter future (one that she can’t stop smiling about!).

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
  • Asking the tough questions isn’t easy, but it’s absolutely necessary. It’s hard work to reflect, but in those tough moments of reflection is where the magic happens
  • You’ll learn how to re-frame the negative to something that lights you up again
  • It’s in paying attention to everything that is happening that allows us to show up for ourselves
    • Getting comfortable with the worst case scenario will give you the tools you need to figure it out and work through it
RELEVANT LINKS AND RESOURCES

Follow Maxie on Twitter: @MaxieMcCoy.

Learn more onMaxie’s website.

Like Maxie on Facebook.

GET IN TOUCH WITH US!

Email:  Scott@happentoyourcareer.com

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Getting Off the Traditional Path of Success and Taking Audacious Action with Caroline Greene

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Have you ever found yourself feeling guilty or unappreciative for wanting something other than the career and life that you’ve already worked so hard to create?

Does the doubt that lingers in your mind that maybe you’re not on the right career path even though you’ve achieved great success in your professional life make you feel crazy or ungrateful?

Stop.

Stop right there and get it out of your mind that there is something wrong with wanting something more. There is nothing wrong with having a desire to achieve something greater than what you’ve accomplished so far in your career.

Many of us are seekers and as seekers we may feel a deep sense that what we’re doing with our lives isn’t right for us. As seekers we may feel like we’re made for something different, something more. We may experience the unnerving feeling like we may be the crazy ones because as we look around, we ask how other people are living their lives just fine in their chosen careers.

If you’ve found yourself in this place of wonder, asking how you’re supposed to get started on getting out of your current career to find a new path or how you’re supposed to even get started on changing your career path when you don’t even know where you see your future self, then our chat with life and business coach, Caroline Greene, may be the episode for you.

ABOUT CAROLINE GREENE

Caroline Greene achieved success in a very traditional way as a graduate of Yale and the UVA School of Law and continuing on to find more success as a defense attorney. Fast forward to now, and Caroline will tell you that she is a recovering lawyer finding joy as life and business coach for determined women that want to build a life or start a business that isn’t just done right in the traditional sense, but is done right on their terms. She takes pride in her work helping her clients get where their hearts are leading them to go.

Listen to our chat with Caroline as she shares her career and life experiences and how she finally made the jump to find out what she really wanted to achieve with her career and life.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
  • How being honest with yourself about the things that you like and the things that you don’t like will get you started to finding what type of career path you see your future self on
  • The steps to start gaining that momentum start small..something as little of getting out there and talking to people could be a turning point in your process in figuring it all out
  • It’s important to always remember that you have the control. Even when you’re coming out of the phase of what seems like a crisis, YOU’RE IN CONTROL of what happens next
  • The two steps you need to follow in finding your new career path are:
    1.  Owning your “craziness”
      • Being able to accept your in-between place in life and know that it is okay to be there
      • Trusting yourself to find out where you want to be not in the next five years, but in the next week
    2. Doing something about it
      • Taking that audacious action to get where you’re meant to be going
      • Start by taking small steps to spend time talking to people that have been in the same place as you to learn from their experiences and gain momentum to move forward in a meaningful way

Follow Caroline on Twitter: @DeterminedMoms.

Like Caroline on Facebook.

Find Caroline’s book on amazon here: “MATTER: How to Find Meaningful Work That’s Right For You And Your Family”

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The Science of Happiness: How to Find Joy and Get Back to Playing Through Positive Psychology with Michelle McQuaid

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Are you finding yourself unsatisfied by the life path that you are on?

Do you ever feel like once you achieve a goal or you get where you want to be in your career or in a particular place in your life that all you want is more?

Some of us work a job day in and day out, content with the life that we have created for ourselves. Sometimes that contentment becomes realized as complacency as we long for more from our careers or life in general.

As we reach a level of technical success in our career, we stop learning new things and our lives become less engaging. Getting curious and staying interested in what matters to us is imperative in our lives. Keeping that sense of wonder keeps life playful and fun.

Today’s guest, Michelle McQuaid, is here to teach us about her findings in the science of happiness, also referred to as positive psychology.

Her studies encourage us to look beyond our achievement-obsessed and outcome-focused society as that culture causes us to lose sight of the things that bring us joy in the every day.

ABOUT MICHELLE MCQUAID

Michelle McQuaid found success up the corporate ladder in public relations early on in her career. After years of hard work, Michelle had reached her career goals and had an incredibly successful professional and personal life with a growing family. Yet, with all of her external success, Michelle felt as though she was still missing something, like everything that she had achieved still wasn’t enough.

Enter the concept of positive psychology and Michelle’s life path was forever changed. She is now a best-selling author, workplace well being coach and playful change activator. She’s passionate about translating research from positive psychology and neuroscience, into practical strategies for health, happiness, and business success.

Michelle advocates to help people discover their strengths, move beyond their fears, and discover what it takes to flourish with confidence and discover the science of happiness.

Listen to our chat with Michelle as she shares her experience of reaching what she thought her career and life goals were, but then found herself wanting more from the life she created for her and her family.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
  • How to use the knowledge of what makes us happy to redefine our purpose
  • How to figure out what is best for you because knowing what is going to be good for you right now is the best thing you can do to flourish in your career and life
  • Your potential and your capabilities are key in aligning yourself with purposeful work
  • How to be okay with the lows in life
RELEVANT LINKS AND RESOURCES

Follow Michelle on Twitter: @chellemcquaid.

Learn more about the science of happiness on Michelle’s website.

Like Michelle on Facebook.

Check out The VIA Survey, the only free, scientific survey to find your character strengths!

Take the PERMAH Workplace Survey recommended by Michelle to check your well being.

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Email:  Scott@happentoyourcareer.com

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Mastering Your Side Hustle with Tracey Minutolo

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We talk about career transitions and finding and turning your passions into a career you love all the time, but what happens when you love where your career is now and you want to work on incorporating some of your other passions into your work life?

Maybe your career has nothing to do with the additional knowledge, skills, or passions that you want to leverage to create a better future for yourself. All you know is that you’re motivated and ready to make some moves to start working on something big for yourself.

That’s where the side hustle comes in.

Our guest, Tracey Minutolo, has quickly become a side-hustling professional on the topic of side-hustling. She’s a full-time lab supervisor at a medical device and diagnostics company by day, and a side-hustling rockstar by heart.

Tracey got her start in the side-hustle business when she decided it was time to get herself out of debt.

After years of feeling stuck, she found the world of business podcasts and decided to start a small virtual assistant side business, providing social media and community management and other support services for podcasters with purpose.

With the side-hustle fire lit under her, her skill set continues to grow and she is currently coaching others with their side-businesses as HTYC’s Side Biz Coach.

Listen as she shares her career and side-hustle journey!

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
  • How to leverage your knowledge, skills, and passions to create a better life for yourself with a side hustle
  • That you don’t have to quit your day job to enjoy work you’re passionate about
  • That there is a way to balance your life with a side business- people do it all the time
  • That knowing yourself- what you want, the type of environment you excel in will help you find a successful side hustle that won’t feel like a job
RELEVANT LINKS AND RESOURCES

Follow Tracey on Twitter: @TraceyMinutolo

Check out Tracey’s website and her community of Side Hustlers and Financial Freedomfighters!

GET IN TOUCH WITH US!

Email:  Scott@happentoyourcareer.com

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Build Your Value and Set Yourself Up For Success with Paul Maskill

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Have you realized that the career path that you’re currently on might not be the one that you see yourself on for the rest of your life?

If you’re ready to put an end to your career burnout and start doing something that matters to you, listen in on our conversation with today’s guest, Paul Maskill.

ABOUT PAUL MASKILL

Paul Maskill began his career journey in the world of corporate finance. Not long into his career in Corporate America, he realized that sitting in a cubicle for 10-12 hours a day, building someone else’s business wasn’t the life he wanted for himself. So, he quit his job, traveled for a couple of months and relocated to start a more rewarding career.

Paul did his research and decided to invest in a franchise called TGA (Teach Grow Achieve). This new business venture combine both his passions for business and sports while creating a positive impact on the lives of thousands of kids every year.

Listen as he shares his career transition experience!

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
  • You will learn that you have the power to control your own destiny
  • Taking a step back to re-evaluate your current situation will give you the insight you need to set yourself up to succeed
  • Working at your passion will continue to open doors for you
  • Staying disciplined and keeping your sights on your long-term goals is key to your success

Follow Paul on Twitter: @PaulMaskill

Check out TGA Tennis & TGA Golf on Facebook!

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Negotiating What You Are Worth with Josh Doody

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Are you ready to put yourself in the position to make more money?

Whether you are changing your career entirely, aiming for a promotion within the company you already work for, or wanting to negotiate a raise, our guest, Josh Doody, is here to share some insight on how to negotiate what you are worth.

Listen as he explains the process of negotiating effectively.

You can also find your step-by-step approach to negotiate a raise, promotion, or salary offer below.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
  • How-to determine your target salary or job title
  • How to negotiate a raise
  • How-to deliver your pitch for that raise, promotion, or salary requirement for a new job offer
  • What happens when your negotiation doesn’t turn out the way you want it to
  • How-to get over the fear of negotiating
HOW-TO NEGOTIATE A RAISE, PROMOTION OR SALARY OFFER

Set Your Target Goal

Whether it is a new salary or an upgraded job title that you are pursuing, make sure your target goal is something that makes sense to the company.

Wondering how to find your target salary or new job title? Think of your target salary as the dollar amount that you think you should be paid because of the value that you add to the company. Likewise, think of your targeted job title as something that represents your responsibilities and the value that you’re adding to the company in that new position.

Do your market research on both salaries and job titles. Estimate your market value to determine your proposed goals. If you’re still having trouble, try to look from your manager’s perspective, a business perspective. Your ask should demonstrate how you are profiting the company. Show the company the realistic value that you add for their benefit.

Justify Your Goal (Salary or Job Title)

After you have your goals in sight, it is best to make a list of reasons why your target salary or job title makes sense to the company.

Start thinking about things that you’ve done that add value to the company.

Have you taken on more responsibilities in terms of business operations? Do you manage more people? Do you bring in more revenue? Have you created or implemented a process that makes the company more efficient?

If you’re looking to upgrade your job title, take your current position and compare it to the job title that you want. What are the differences? Have you demonstrated the level of responsibility that comes with the upgraded title? Are you already accomplishing things that are part of the targeted job title and not of your current position? Use a level of acknowledged responsibility to help justify your request for a promotion.

Whatever your list includes, make sure it gives legitimate reason to what you’re requesting. You can even collect proof of your work from clients and coworkers to add to that list.

Articulate the Justification for Your Goal

With your target goals justified, you’re ready to deliver the pitch.

First, write an email with your raise or promotion request. This is your chance to reorganize all of the information that you’ve compiled from your market research and your performance at your job. When you’re done composing your email, save it. This will be your follow-up email after you have a verbal conversation with your manager.

Schedule a meeting with your manager to discuss your raise/promotion request. If you’re having a hard time putting your request into words, start with the facts.

For example, you can say, “My salary of $_________ was set in the past. I think that based on my research/based on what I do for the company now, that my value to the company reflects a salary that should be close to $_________ and these are the reasons why: (list your reasons).”

What Happens When Your Request is Denied?

If you’ve followed the steps but your manager is unable to meet your goal, your next step is to build a development plan with your manager to get to that salary or job title.

Ask to create a timeline and a list of what you have to do to get you to that goal.

If you are absolutely worth the request and the company that you’re working for doesn’t think that you are worth that, then it may be time to look for another company that will meet your goals.

New Job Offer and Salary Negotiation

BEFORE JOB OFFER: Set a minimum salary requirement for yourself when applying for new jobs. Ask yourself, “What is the minimum salary that I would accept to do the job as I understand it?”

When you get a new job offer, counter their offer with your minimum that you established or with 10-20% above their offer. If you are undoubtedly worth more than their offer, respond with, “Well, we’re really far apart in your offer. I’m sorry, but I really can’t accept the job for less than (your minimum acceptable salary).”

ABOUT JOSH DOODY

A former electrical engineer turned project manager and consultant, Josh Doody realized that he had left a lot of money on the table at his first few jobs without properly negotiating his salary offers. Soon after, he began his practice in negotiating his salary and doubled his salary within three years.

After gaining confidence through his successful negotiations, he began to help others drastically increase their salaries as well. Inspired by both his own experiences in his career and personal salary negotiations and the success stories from helping others, Josh Doody wrote the book Fearless Salary Negotiation in 2015.

Find out more about salary negotiation at: FearlessSalaryNegotiation.com

Check out Josh’s specials for our listeners: Fearlesssalarynegotiation.com/htyc

Buy the book: Fearless Salary Negotiation on Amazon!

Follow Josh on Twitter: @JoshDoody

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Figuring It Out – Q & A with Scott and Alyssa Barlow

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We’ve taken the top questions that have been asked by you, our audience, and are sharing our thoughts through our own experiences of career changes.

We answer your questions from questions of career change mindset, to changes of strengths and interests, and whether searching for the dream career is even worth it.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
  • When making a career change, do you have to know what you want to do for the rest of your life?
    • Society and culture may influence our thoughts on stability and what plan or pathway you think you need to follow in your career and in life in general
    • Change in life and lifestyle will change the way you want to earn money
    • There are more and more ways to figure our the information you need to decide if your choices bring you closer to or further away from where you want to be
    • Bottom line: Mindset will change, expect it to change
  • Do strengths change over time? Does everyone have a strength? What if you don’t have strengths?
    • Strengths and interests change as life and work experiences change
    •  When it comes to signature strengths, everyone has them, they are already there, already ingrained in you. It is just a matter of doing the work to understand those signature strengths in order to intentionally focus on developing them and making them great.
    •  Once you figure out what you’re naturally good at, the things that you’re more gifted at doing, you can then work to align those strengths for a career that will never feel like work.
  • Is it worth it- finding the dream career versus settling for a job that pays the bills?
    • It takes some amount of searching to determine if anything is worth  doing what you love
    • Everyone will have an answer for themselves once they take the time to evaluate their priorities
    • From career changes to paying off debt, whatever it is, even if it doesn’t seem ideal at the moment, you are never going to get what you want or what you’re looking for if you don’t make the moves to make it happen
    • Your goals are closer than you realize. It may look like a daunting task, but it is never as difficult as you think it is.
    • You have to make the decision if you want to move forward. When you do, the answer will be yes. Yes it is absolutely worth it.

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