Tips for Work and Life with Andrew LaCivita

Dec 03 2024 225 ep. 21 mins 39

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Career coach and best-selling author Andrew LaCivita shares insights on leading a rewarding career and fulfilled life.

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How to Stay Positive in Your Job Search | 10 Tips to Keep You Motivated

Dec 03 2024 38 mins

I’m not gonna sugarcoat it. Job search is rough. It’s lonely. It’s confusing. It’s like the trifecta of pain. I feel for you. I truly do. But, since I use a lot of “empathic concern,” I’m not just going to feel for you. I’m going to act by sharing 10 secrets to stay positive in your job search on your way to better results. (If you’re just dying to know what emp

You'll Never Know How Great You Can Be Unless You Do This

Nov 26 2024 3 mins

My entire life, I just needed to know. I’d never let myself wonder. How great could I be? The not knowing would just kill me. A regret I’d never let myself live with. Ever feel this way? Ever wonder how good you could be at something if you let yourself be? If you—literally—gave it your all? After going through my entire career (eh, life) all-out with no brakes (yes, I mean

Why Now is THE Best Time of Year to Find a New Job (2024-2025) | Job Search Challenge®

Nov 13 2024 28 mins

I realize it’s mid-November and the Christmas décor has already draped many stores for an entire month, but your career doesn’t take a holiday (nor do I). Today, I’m serving up a major lesson on why now is literally THE BEST time to job search. You’re at the start line of a 3-month hiring frenzy. It doesn’t matter whether the year is 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020 or 2024 or any

The Best Way to Prepare for a Job Interview

Nov 05 2024 29 mins

In my lifetime, I’ve prepared, oh, conservatively, about a bajillion job candidates for their interviews. Most are so worried about the wrong stuff. Most prepare backwards. They think What questions will I be asked? I need to come up with a good answer for [insert the dumb ones here about disagreements and conflicts and weaknesses, etc.]. Uh, no. As is, heck to the no! It’s not

10 Techniques to Sound More Accomplished in Your Resume and Job Interviews

Oct 29 2024 37 mins

Who doesn’t want to sound more accomplished? Amiright?!?! More accomplished = more attractive to potential employers. I’m not talkin’ “accomplished “in the “overqualified” sorta way. I wouldn’t run that risk. I’m talkin’ “accomplished” in the I’m-smarter, more-knowledgeable, performed-more-repetitions, solved-more-problems, achieved-more-goals sorta way! I

9 Unconventional Habits That Lead to Success

Oct 15 2024 39 mins

It hurts me when I see people make a mistake. It practically kills me when I see them repeating—on purpose—the same mistake. I’ve made lots of mistakes, so please don’t think I think I’m a know-it-all. I don’t judge anyone because they made different mistakes than I did. We’re all different and have walked different paths, experienced different things, and built diffe

4 Steps to Determine and Improve Your Job Security

Oct 08 2024 7 mins

The job market is tricky these days. It’s always confusing for some, but nowadays it seems like it’s unknown for all. Good news. Your favorite career coach has yet another timeless lesson on steps you should ALWAYS be taking to protect yourself, your career, your family, friends, neighbors, and everything else connected to you! Yes, there’s A LOT riding on this. Which is why

10 Ways to Improve Your Job Search | Tips from The Zebra Code

Oct 01 2024 53 mins

If you’re struggling in your job search, you’re in luck today! I’ve got 10 big tips to help you ignite your results. They’re not your run-of-the-mill-tips and you can’t get them anywhere else. I know this to be true because I’m the only person on the planet who wrote The Zebra Code: A Step-By-Step Guide to Mastering Career Skills That Make You a Standout Professional.

How to Tell a Story That Wows the Interviewer | A Job Seeker Case Study

Sep 23 2024 11 mins

I have a new podcast this morning titled How to Tell a Story That Wows the Interviewer | A Job Seeker Case Study because, well, it wows the interviewer and it’s a real-life example from someone I coached (hence the case study part). It’ll be the best 11 minutes and 13 seconds you spend all week if you’re in job-search mode next to the few hours you can spend with me live this

The Career Profile is the Most Important Part of Your Resume | How to Write One That Wins

Sep 10 2024 13 mins

I spent more time coming up with complete title of The Zebra Code: A Step-By-Step Guide to Mastering Career Skills That Make You a Standout Professional than writing the entire book. 7 months for the title. 6 months to write the entire book (really 5, because I spent a month polishing). True story. Why? I wanted to get in… Something unique (and avoid generic leadership-y titles