24. Checking Your Career Biases And The Influence Of Career Exposure With Brad Minton
Brad Minton is the founder of Mint To Be Career, a career coaching company for young people. He is also a Post Secondary Success Navigator for an educational service agency in Michigan as well as the host of Your Career GPS Podcast. This is a podcast to help teens, high school and college students find their way in the world of work. Brad also happens to be a father of 3.
In this episode we discuss:
🡢 How Brad uses his background in mental health and counselling to bring a deeper approach to career coaching.
🡢 How helping a young person to discover their Unique Impact Story can transform the way they make decisions about their future.
🡢 The responsibility of parents to check their career biases.
🡢 How socioeconomic factors affect the exposure a young person has to different careers.
🡢 The change in conversation around a college education.
🡢 The critical (soft) skills that employers are looking for.
You can connect with Brad by clicking the below links:
Connect with me by emailing hello@alanakilmartin.com
See more of my work at alanakilmartin.com
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