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Beyond Career Coaching With Happenstance Podcast
We are celebrating Career Development Month by doing a deep dive into career coaching and having conversations with career coaches about the their own career paths, the things they love about career coaching, advice they wish everyone knew, and of course, exploring the happenstance moments along the way!
How To Break The Ice In An Interview: LinkedIn News
In this LinkedIn New article, Coach Nadia discusses tips, tricks and best practices for effectively managing nerves during interviews to help job seekers come across and feel natural and organic.
LGBTQ+ | Educating the Masses with HerVersion Podcast
Coach Nadia joins 9 other LGBTQ+ folks in the HerVersion community to discuss all things LGBTQ+ including taking live questions from audience members in honor of Pride Month.
A Job Seekers Pursuit for Belonging- Tuesday’s with Coach Mo Podcast
Executive Coach Monique Betty, ‘Coach Mo’, is joined by Nadia Ibrahim-Taney, a Career Coach and University Professor, who talked about how to navigate the process of vetting a company to determine if they offer a work environment and culture that provides inclusiveness and a sense of belonging for all.
What Is The Best Training Experience For Life Coaches
Are you interested in becoming a life coach and you don’t know what is the best training experience that you need? Check out Coach Nadia’s comments on what she thinkings is the best training experience for coaches.
Here’s what to do if you haven’t landed a summer internship yet
For college students and recent grads, internships can be critical career steps. Here’s Coach Nadia’s tips for what to do if you’re still searching for that summer opportunity.
Which Education System Is the Best in the World? (And Why)
In this article, Coach Nadia discusses her experience in the US and UK education system.
How Career Coaching Helps You to Move From “Doing” to “Being” As a Professional
In this episode, Coach Nadia chats with Coach BSO all the way from Africa, about how to enjoy “being” rather than “doing” as a professional. They discuss the importance of staying curious about yourself and your environment, making technology work for you and not vice versa, and how saying “no” to something is really saying a bigger “yes” to something else.
Pandemic Has Changed How People View Professionalism
UC professor Nadia Ibrahim-Taney encourages workers to find their comfort level when deciding what to share at work.
Having “No Filter” At Work Is A Good Thing, Actually
We’re living in a world with no off switches and our burnout is at a boiling point. Coach Nadia recently joined Molly from refinery29 to talk about what is means to be professional at work.
How To Prepare For A Stay Interview
Stay interviews have been generating plenty of buzz in recent workplace news. Coach Nadia drops by HigherEdJobs.com and talks about how to prepare for a stay interview.
8 Coaches Share How To Deal With Doubt
“Self-doubt is a longtime frenemy! Even as an accomplished coach and university professor, self-doubt is seemingly always there. What I’ve learned over the years is to lean into the doubt”. Read more to learn how Coach Nadia deals with doubt.
Changing Careers: A Step-by-Step Guide
A career change can feel like a daunting task, so in this BestColleges.com article, Coach Nadia shares her expert career tips and tricks to help with each step of the career changing process.
Finding Inclusive Companies
How do you search for organizations, companies or jobs that recognize your individuality and uniqueness? How do you KNOW a boss is RIGHT for you?
In this podcast episode of Meet The Mentor, Coach Nadia sits down with long time coaching friend Coach Kwan and discusses how to find and assess future employers.
OutCincinnati Podcast Featuring Coach Nadia
In this local Cincinnati podcast, Coach Nadia talks all things LGBTQ+ and careers with co-hosts Chris and Melissa. They get into queer identities at work, what a career coach actually does and how to show up powerfully at work.
Ep. 61 Crossing Borders II: Tools For Success When Living Abroad
Coach Nadia discusses the most common challenges of students who have studied, lived and worked abroad. What are the unique challenges related to adapting to a new or different culture and what steps does she suggest students take when they are experiencing this. She breaks down how she thinks international experience helps students stand out in the job search.
7 Holistic Coaches On The Rise
Holistic Coaches focus on the whole person taking into account your inner experience on the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual levels while at the same time acknowledging your outer experience and what you want to create in your everyday life. Here are 7 Holistic Coaches on the rise to put in your back pocket as a resource, connection or personal coach that you can share with others.
How To Use LinkedIn For Your Coaching Business With The Holistic Coach Legacy Podcast
In this episode, Bev and Nadia discuss how LinkedIn became their go-to social media platform and share tips on creating or updating profiles. AND they share some other reasons this is their favorite place to create clients. Lots of super useful information in this podcast, so jump in and get started with your LinkedIn journey today!
Building Confidence Within Your Career with HerVersion Podcast
Coach Nadia helps you build your confidence and competencies ensuring you know what you want from your career and how to make it happen. Nadia is here to talk openly about her life, her challenges and how her career now is impacting people all over the world.
10 Jobs That Are Perfect For Extroverts
“Being an extrovert in and of itself doesn’t necessarily give someone a job market advantage—unless you connect it to a skill or ability,” Ibrahim-Taney says. “For example, how does being extroverted connect to your ability to lead a team? Hit sales targets? Solve problems? Or motivate others around you?”
Rewarding Conversations Podcast: Advice, Experiences & Lessons From a Career Coach
In this podcast, Coach Nadia sits down with host Adam and discusses her backstory, how she became a career coach, LGBTQ+ experiences, traveling abroad and what life has been like helping others during a pandemic.
How Do I Negotiate a Higher Salary With My Employer?
“Many people find negotiating salary awkward and use email to avoid those feelings,” said Nadia Ibrahim-Taney, founder of Beyond Discovery Coaching. “It nearly never works. Don’t do it”.
How to Save Money On College Tuition
"Taking your general education classes at a community college is a massively impactful way to cut costs," says Nadia Ibrahim-Taney, university career coach and owner of Beyond Discovery Coaching.
3 Signs A Job Opportunity Might Be A Scam
In this CareerWise by CERIC article, Coach Nadia focuses on three actionable ways to determine if a job opportunity is a scam to help your clients make informed assessments of opportunities in a quickly changing hiring landscape.
13 Private Student Loan Payoff Tips That Real People Swear By
“Checking my account at least once a month kept my loans in the forefront of my mind,” says Nadia Ibrahim-Taney, who paid off $20,000 of private student loans from grad school. “Just having them in mind and recognizing they are there is a good step. The more you learn about your loan, the more confident you will become in terms of developing a strategy to pay them down.”
The New College Norm? Welcome to Hybrid Classes
“I teach freshmen to master’s students and have found that my students are actually more engaged with the content in virtual settings than when we were in the classroom,” says Nadia Ibrahim-Taney, owner of Beyond Discovery Coaching.
Five Things You Need To Create a Highly Successful Career As a Life or Business Coach
“You have to know your unique selling points as a coach- what is your why? If you can communicate why you do what you do, how you do it and how it provides value to clients, you will attract the right people to your business” says Nadia Ibrahim-Taney, owner of Beyond Discovery Coaching.
NFL player Dan Vitale just announced his job hunt via LinkedIn. Should you?
Nadia Ibrahim-Taney, owner of Beyond Discovery Coaching, says that while Vitale is much better known than most people and likely more connected on LinkedIn, there’s a bit of serendipity mixed in too. By (get ready for a football term!) going long, he’s allowing more people to find out he’s hunting for his next opportunity, which Ibrahim-Taney says is extra important for Vitale because he is looking to change careers.
Top Tips for [Effective Communication] in the US Hiring Process and Workplace
“Communication is the cornerstone of getting hired in the US and navigating the American workplace. Without effective communication, team members often go off on their own, become isolated and feel disconnected from the overall mission of the organization and team.”
Read the rest of Coach Nadia’s guest blog article with ICAWAY, an international coaching resource for international students studying in the US.
A job-search game plan for the class of 2021
Career coach Nadia Ibrahim-Taney, founder of Beyond Discovery Coaching, says “Just get applying,” 2020 was a “holding year,” but many industries are starting to post more jobs, and she’s seeing more activity among the students with whom she works. Don’t get stalled because the big picture might not look as rosy as you’d like. There is still opportunity out there, she says.
Pre-Graduation Checklist for Career-Minded College Seniors
"Most student loan repayment plans give you around 6 months of a grace period after graduation before you need to start making payments. Some types of loans such as private, however, start the month after you graduate so it is really important to revisit your loan agreements and see when your first bill is coming."
Obstacles Different Generations Face in Their Job Search
The boomer generation is increasingly finding challenge in exploring their ‘second act’ or a career pivot, Ibrahim-Taney said.
Since boomers have been working in a particular field or industry the longest in the job market, many employers want to tap them as more of an advisor or content expert in the space they know best — their past experience. But many boomers are ready for something new, something different than what they have been doing for 25 years.
How To Negotiate Your Salary (Tips and Examples)
People hire people, and the best way to personalize the recruitment and hiring process is to have as many touchpoints and interactions with the recruitment team as possible.
It helps you connect more personally with them so when you negotiate they understand more of your backstory/background, skillset, and reasoning for the negotiation.
How Do You Know When It’s Time To Quit A Job?
Nadia Ibrahim-Taney, a university career coach based in Cincinnati, recommends first writing down parts of the job that are draining. Then consider bringing the list to your manager before turning in a resignation letter.
“There have been times in my career that I was on the verge of leaving a good job because there were too many elements of my job I hated doing,” said Ibrahim-Taney. Instead of quitting altogether, Ibrahim-Taney brought concerns up to the supervisor, and they were able to negotiate ways to redistribute those tasks across the team.
Happy Campus Pride Month!
Campus Pride Month events confirm for LGBTQ students that they have a safe place on campus and a community that is committed to their support, education, and advocacy. Nadia Ibrahim-Taney, university career coach and lecturer, points out:
"Students benefit in the areas of leadership development, support programs and services that focus on creating safer, more inclusive LGBT-friendly colleges and universities. . . When one member of the campus community is valued, it benefits the entire campus."
New Approaches To Building Engagement Through Hybrid Teaching
“What we are seeing is a move towards cooperative education and learning in the classroom meaning students are learning from peers, through guest speakers, or outside classroom sources like podcasts or hands-on experience through internships,” Ibrahim-Taney says.
iSchoolConnect YouTube Interview
Coach Nadia recently sat down with iSchoolConnect to discuss the new UK student visa changes taking place in 2021 and how Brexit will impact international students.
iSchoolConnect is an online platform that allows students from India to apply to colleges and universities around the world. They are based in Mumbai, India.
9 Jobs You Can Get With a Business Degree
The communication and interpersonal skills you gained are also vital to any future job or career. “Good business schools combine the technical and the humanistic,” Ibrahim-Taney says. Through your coursework, you learned just not what needs to be done, but how to work well with other people. You also learned the best ways to communicate verbally and in writing as well as how to give presentations on a variety of topics.
How To Get Ready For Your Next Job Interview
Ibrahim-Taney suggests checking out the company's social media profiles. The content may give you information about the company, employees and culture. If you know who you'll be meeting in your interview, look at their public-facing content on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook for clues about their interests and expertise. You may find conversation-starters here, too. For example, if you went to the same college, that may be something to bring up casually in the conversation.
How Active Listening Can Boost Your Career (and How to Do It Right)
“Active listening is simply the act of listening with intent and strategy,” says Nadia Ibrahim-Taney, a university career coach and lecturer who spends her days teaching students how to get hired and be successful in the professional workplace. The art of active listening is one of the lessons she hopes her students retain when they leave her classroom.
3 Fixes For A Contentious Coaching Relationship
“When working with a client and we’ve made an agreement on three goals they want to achieve between now and when we meet next, and they do not follow through on what they agreed to, it is my responsibility as the coach to ask why. It is my role to hold the client accountable and to ask what is working, what isn’t working, and what things might need to change in order for the client to obtain success.”
This Is Usually The First Question In Every Interview. Be Prepared!
“The best way to prepare for interview questions is to do your research,” explains Nadia Ibrahim-Taney, university career coach and lecturer teaching students how to get hired and be successful in the professional workplace.
“You can guarantee all interviews are going to start with some element of ‘tell me about yourself,’ but that is often the easiest and hardest interview question for most applicants because you can literally say anything.”
6 Career Coaches Share The Best Career Advice They Ever Got
If you don’t believe in what you are selling—especially when it’s yourself—it’s going to be hard to convince others to be interested, Nadia says. And by strengthening her belief in herself and practicing through role-play, informational interviews, and formal interviews, she became a more confident professional, which led to promotions and peer recognition.
5 Strategies To Stay Sane As A Coach
University career coach Nadia Ibrahim-Taney explains, “I love learning. It’s a great way for me to ‘refill my bucket.’ It excites and engages me, and I bring that energy back into my career coaching and to my clients.”
Learning doesn’t necessarily mean being part of a formal program. Ibrahim-Taney notes that she “often squeezes in a 15 minute LinkedIn Learning module during lunch or listens to a podcast or watches a YouTube video” to start current.
How To Find A Mentor: 19 Expert Tips On How To Make Mentorship Work For You
"Think critically on what you need from mentorship and who are the people who can get you there," says Nadia Ibrahim-Taney, a university career coach and lecturer. "While having a 40-year veteran CEO mentor looks good on paper, if your goal is to obtain an entry level position at a company, you need to ask yourself how much does the CEO know about hiring? Or networking with entry level folks?
The Financial Impact of COVID-19 on LGBTQ Communities
“For many LGBTQ youth, they must decide to either come out and live their authentic lives or hide in the closet in disapproving or unwelcoming families,” said Ibrahim-Taney. “Often the decision to come out is based on two elements: do I feel physically and emotionally safe to do so and if my family rejects me, how will I financially support myself? Many times when LGBTQ folks come out, their families stop providing financial support so they must get jobs right away which are typically in low wage, unskilled labor positions.”