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Career Success Stories

VANESSA TEO on Navigating Career Transitions

  • S5E2
  • 1:07:28
  • April 30th 2023

Ms Vanessa Teo is the Director of Strategic Planning with ABBVIE INC.

At this webinar, Vanessa lends advice based on her years of experience both as a hiring manager and more extensively as a HR professional.

Highlights of her speech include:

  1. Vanessa's career brand story begins!
  2. Vanessa's career statistics 
  3. Vanessa's life transitions parallel to her career's
  4. What makes brands unique
  5. Steps to build your personal brand
  6. Create your own Board Of Directors
  7. Why every professional needs your own board of directors
  8. Understand your environment
  9. A Summary
  10. Audience Q - "As an introvert who struggles with language, how can I get better at articulating my safe scripts?"
  11. Audience Q - "I've lost my sense of self, including sleepless nights in my limited role at the agency. Am I correct to say that if I do not start on my career transition planning, it may be too late?"
  12. Audience Q - "If I've not decided what to do next, how can I go about articulating my career brand story?"
  13. Audience Q - "How do I go about deciding what I want my brand to be?"
  14. Audience Q - "What are the things to avoid when branding?"
  15. Audience Q - "I have had no success when applying for Sales or BD roles when pivoting to MedTech or Pharma sectors. Any strategies to share?"
  16. Audience Q - "Will earning a certificate at the end of a 6-month training render us as qualified?"
  17. Audience Q - "Did you complete the 6-month course on HR Analytics on a full-time basis or part-time, while working?"
  18. Audience Q - "Please give us an HR perspective on professionals who take a 1 to 3 years career break to travel the world before (re)joining the workforce again?"
  19. Audience Q - "Where can professionals who are keen to pivot to the pharma sector find the best resource to learn more & prepare?"
  20. Vanessa's parting advice on career transition

Vanessa Teo received lots of appreciation from the audience for her invaluable career tips, thank you.

We look forward to having you back real soon, you rock!

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To watch a video version of this talk, head over to https://youtu.be/BiOl7pd-ozU

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Career Success Stories

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 Seah
Organisational Psychologist

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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