Are you a teacher who's feeling stressed out and overwhelmed. Do you worry that you're feeling symptoms of burnout or are you sure you've already gotten there? Have you started a dream of doing some other kind of job or perhaps pursuing a whole different career, but you don't know what else you're even qualified to do. You don't know how to start a job search. You just feel stuck. If that sounds like you, I promise you're not alone. My name is kitty boy. Not I'm a career transition and job search coach. And I specialize in helping burn out teachers just like you deal, not only with the stress and overwhelm of your day to day job, but to consider what other careers might be out there waiting for you. Join me for teachers in transition. In some episodes, I'll be speaking to stress management techniques and how you can manage your stress on a day to day basis. In other episodes, I'll be talking about career transition. What tools do you need to be successful in a job search when you're moving from one career into a totally different track. These are questions that you need answers to and I can help you find those answers. My name is kitty. Boyk welcome to teachers in transition.
Speaker 2:Welcome back to another episode of teachers in transition, the podcast and the YouTube channel. My name is kitty boy. I'm a heart centered career transition and job search coach. I specialize in working out with burnt out teachers who are ready to make a career change, but don't know how or where to begin. If you've listened to this podcast in the past, you know that I alternate topics each week talking one week about stress management strategies because I'm a certified stress management coach and on alternating weeks career transition, because I'm also a trained and experienced career transition and job search coach. As I said, I specialize in working with teachers this week. I wanna talk about career transition strategies. And one of the things that I want to offer is that whenever you are looking to make a change from one career to another, it's important that you remember the importance of story in your career and keeping your story straight. And what do I mean by that? If you are leaving teaching for a new career, you need to be very, very clear about why it is that you're leaving. And you also need to have a clear story about what your career meant to you and the impact you made on your students while you were with them and why you want to be making this change. You can't be changing your story about the reason why you're changing your career. If you talk with a recruiter or a screening hiring manager until one story, and then tell a different story in the interview, when they start to compare stories, they may be confused. So keep your story straight and be sure that you have a story to tell people, love stories. Ever. All of us have a story, and we love to tell our story, but we have to be careful about telling too much oversharing, uh, giving the wrong impression by saying the wrong thing. When telling your story and giving people the impression that you can't keep your story straight. So do keep your story straight. When you're looking for a new job, when you're looking to transition out of the classroom and into a new career, be very, very clear about why you're leaving, what your experiences entailed, how you learned from them, how you can bring those experiences into this new position that you are looking to fill and how you can be an asset to the company that is looking to bring you on board. That's what they wanna hear, how you can be an asset to them. What can you do for them? So keep your story all about that. All about the benefit that you bring to the company and how you can be an asset to their team. That's it for this week. If you have any questions, email me at kitty boy, not gmail.com. I'd love to hear from you. If you would please review this podcast or YouTube channel, subscribe to the channel, uh, sign up for reminders about the podcast in the proper section. Uh, send me suggestions for new topics. If you like. I'd love to hear from you. If you have questions about your specific and unique experience or situation, and you wanna talk about how I might be able to help you with your career transition, make an appointment@teachersintransition.com slash calendar that's teachers in transition.com/calendar. I'd love to hear from you have a great week and I'll see you next week.
Speaker 1:So there you have it. An episode of teachers in transition. I hope you enjoyed the information and I hope you'll plan to come back. Please subscribe to teachers in transition so that you can be alerted of future episodes. And let me know if you have any questions or topics that you would like me to specifically cover in a future episode, I'm more than happy to help with individual questions as well. So email me at kitty boy Nott at boy Nott, coaching.com. If you are interested in finding a new career or just enjoying your life more, this is the place to start. I'm kitty boy not. And this is teachers in transition.