Kirk Ho is the Finance Director for the Stamford American International School based in Singapore.
Apart from being extremely busy and successful at work, he is also successful at home - guess how many kids he has? Answer in the earlier portion of the podcast!
Kirk shared several insights on navigating your career based on his own experience and observations:
Here are the highlights:
- Overview of Kirk's Career Journey
- The As to maintain during career transition
- The Bs professionals should avoid and act on
- The Cs we need during career transition
- How to discover your career brand
- What draws people to my story?
- How to show the advantage of AGE in my career branding?
- How to create a brand story when I have no experience in the new field of work?
- How to present the story without sounding cliche or unauthentic?
- How to craft a career brand story for those in different industries throughout your career
- Skillset to consider for finance professionals, other than power BI.
- Stories to craft for those with 3 year gap without much progression in that timeframe
- How to transit our brand story to future employers
- Can backend roles like Sales Support be branded in your story?
- The pitfalls of career transition
- How to craft your story for those taking care of aged mum
- When does anyone undergo a career transition
- Any contacts in M.O.E.?
Thank you Kirk for sharing so many tips!
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Every professional is likely to spend about 40 years in the employment market. In these 40 years, there will be mistakes made (hopefully small ones), lessons learnt, new habits formed and eventually, the everyday version of ourselves will become our best version everyday.
Above all, the stories we hear from others could be the gamechangers we need to give our career a new boost!
Hi, I'm Eileen Seah, an Organizational Psychologist, Executive Coach & founder of The Art of Career and I am the host of this podcast.
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Eileen is an Organisational Psychologist, Executive Coach & founder of The Art of Career.
As an HR Business Partner, she helps companies with their People, Learning & Culture programs, gleaned from taking on diverse roles from front to mid & back office functions across the Defense Science, Banking & Finance, Telecommunications & Management consulting industries.
Eileen was interviewed on national radio (https://link.artofcareer.com/938live) on how to be happy at work and speaks regularly at corporate as well as government-sponsored events (e.g. listen to the most recent event on https://link.artofcareer.com/eileen-podcast-logistics).
As an Executive Coach, Eileen believes in a psychology-centered approach to help professionals discover the best-version of themselves via a constant renewal of their everyday-self. Popular coaching topics include leadership presence, career navigation, influence without authority and leadership branding.
As a Content Creator, she has helped companies in reinventing the delivery of Learning programs and spearheaded a talent attraction initiative by showcasing workplace culture & values under the Live Employer Interview label. At the individual level, she has produced a 22-episode video series as a motivational channel to aid jobseekers in their quest in landing the next role.
Eileen is recognised for her strong service-orientation and innovative thinking, having been nominated twice as a High Potential & Future Leader throughout her career with different companies. She received the prestigious global Beta-Gamma-Sigma award and an HP Silver Award for academic excellence as well as a sports achievement i.e. hole-in-1 for golf.
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