My intention for you in this training:

• Expectations of SWP & setting goals

• Setting yourself up for success and making the most out of your experience

  • Staying committed, mindset, defining career success for YOU

• Getting to each other:

  • All of the epiphanies and a-ha’s from my & your stories

  • Community intros

My intention for you:

• Getting clear is your super power: differences between wildlife biology, ecology, zoology, conservation biology, & environmental science

• Why getting experience won’t necessarily get you a job & how to do it right

• HOW to get clear: Starting you Job Tracker, Exercises to understand yourself deeply

• Mindset to Success: Your Mind is Wired to Work Against What You Want

My intention for you:

• Understanding research & what it looks like in permanent jobs look like across different workplaces at ALL LEVELS so you know where you fit in

• Applied vs theoretical research, and how funding affects what you study

• Developing a winning strategy for technology shifts so that you can secure a permanent job

• Understanding what you want through questions you’ve NEVER asked yourself before

• Mindset to Success: Your Subconscious Mind Runs the Show

My intention for you:

• Understanding research & what it looks like in permanent jobs look like across different workplaces at ALL LEVELS so you know where you fit in

• Applied vs theoretical research, and how funding affects what you study

• Developing a winning strategy for technology shifts so that you can secure a permanent job

• Understanding what you want through questions you’ve NEVER asked yourself before

• Mindset to Success: Your Subconscious Mind Runs the Show

My intention for you:

• An insider’s perspective of what it’s like to work at:

  • Academia: Universities & Colleges

  • Government: State & Federal

• Every job type & examples of REAL people with these jobs

• Create your experience matrix to understand what makes your heart sing (& what doesn’t)

• Identifying Your New Identity to Work From

My intention for you:

• An insider’s perspective of what it’s like to work at:

  • Nonprofits & NGOs, Zoos & aquariums, Museums

  • Every job type & examples of REAL people with these jobs

• Mindset to Success: Starting to Embody Your New Identity

My intention for you:

• Perspective of what it’s like to work at:

  • Consulting agencies & Private Organizations, Tribal Nations

  • PLUS rehabilitation centers, sanctuaries & as wildlife vets

• Every job type & examples of REAL people with these jobs

• Mindset to Success: Embodying Your New Identity: The Importance of Energy

My intention for you:

• Combine the results of your Job Tracker analysis with your workbook answers to determine what niche is right for you!

• Analyze your niche on the job market for availability

• Conduct a salary analysis of your niche for the future

• Create your personalized roadmap leading you to your niche: Use everything you've learned about yourself and the job that you want to create an ACTION plan

• Understanding limiting beliefs to reverse them

My intention for you:

• What really counts as experience

• How to find good experiences that get you results

• Taking control of your experience when nothing seems to be working:

  • Create your own LEGIT experience

• Mindset to Success: Getting Leverage to Clear Your Limiting Beliefs

My intention for you:

• Understanding the potential of in-person networking & how to do it

• What to say when you have no idea what to say!

• How to start & carry conversations

• Conferences & Events

• Network with INTENTION & PURPOSE targeting the RIGHT people who will get you to where you want to go

• Mindset to Success: Release past traumas associated with your limiting belief

My intention for you:

• Learn how to networking at any time, any where, no matter what!

• Develop a habit and practice of networking

• Prepare your online presence for professionalism and results

• Use social media to advance your career even more

• How to use LinkedIn to get results in wildlife careers

• Mindset to Success: Finding the abundance of evidence for your new beliefs

My intention for you:

• In-depth analysis of higher degrees: Master’s vs PhD, thesis vs non-thesis, online options

• How to approach graduate school & how to get in without having to apply for ultra competitive assistantships (as well as how to get them)

• The GRFP fellowship & other scholarships

• Courses & certificates: Deciding what you actually need that will get you jobs so that you don’t waste time and $$$$

• Mindset to Success: Embodying your new identity through affirmations

My intention for you:

• Start identifying what jobs you are competitive for so you don't waste your precious time, energy, & emotions on jobs you never had a chance of getting

• Understand what makes jobs less and more (at times super!) competitive

• Learn how to gauge your own competitiveness

• Explore the differences between resumes & CVs (& the hybrid), when to use which

• Mindset to Success: Using Gratitude to Turn Around Bad Situations

My intention for you:

• Understand why the experience section FOR WILDLIFE JOBS is CRITICAL & how to make yourself sound amazing without outright bragging or feeling icky

• Go over lots & lots & lots of examples of what to do and what not to do

• Learn how to translate experience from non-wildlife jobs to what employers in wildlife careers care about

• Read resumes from successful students & use templates to build your own

• Mindset to Success: Thinking About Your Thoughts in New Ways

My intention for you:

• Other Sections to make your resume really pop and resources for government jobs

• Learn what to emphasize in your cover letter so that you are not just repeating your resume

• Learn what is most important for the job you are applying to

• Get organized before you start so it is SO much easier and you don't miss anything important

• Mindset to Success: Automating Your Success: Making Your Habits Work for You

My intention for you:

• Paragraph by paragraph, learn how to write a powerful cover letter that matches the job you are applying to exactly

• Pull experiences and examples from your professional life that match the qualifications

• Understand HOW to show employers you are amazing & qualified

• Lots of examples! & my successful cover letters

• Mindset to Success: Choosing Interpretations that Maximize Your Success

My intention for you:

• Steps to ensure your success in your new workplace, maintain a positive work experience, & prevent burnout

• Maximize networking & maintaining connections

• End a job early if you need to & asking for letters of recommendation

• Salaries: Negotiating and asking for more

• Mindset to Success: Recap: What to do when you feel stuck or down

• Ending the program: Final thoughts and next steps