Prep, Push, Pivot Essential Career Strategies for Underrepresented Women

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.

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.

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Introduction

Part 1: PREP

1.            Know Your Worth

2.            How to Bounce Back When You Lose Your Job

3.            Landing the Salary You Deserve

Part 2: PUSH

4.            How to Position Yourself for a Promotion

5.            How to Navigate a Career Break

6.            Achieving Your Goals While Caring for Your Family

Part 3: PIVOT

7.            How to Pull Off a Career Change

8.            Be Pivotal by Paying It Forward

9.            Dream Bigger Career Toolkit

References

Index

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