Nov 29, 2020Distinguish Your Career Value by Defining Your Hybrid Job Title“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” — WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Words are arbitrary points of meaning. As Shakespeare pointed out in Romeo & Juliet, you can call a rose by a thousand other names, and it would still smell just as divine. I remember when I met…Personal Branding5 min readPersonal Branding5 min read
Nov 16, 2020The BIGGEST mistake to avoid before you update your resume — Don’t do this one thing(This piece of advice is for professionals of all types — experts, generalists, and definitely hybrid professionals.) You’re looking for a new job — maybe you haven’t needed to apply for awhile — and what’s the first thing you think to do? …Resume4 min readResume4 min read
Nov 2, 2020If you’re a hybrid, what’s your expertise?“If you combine two skills that are valuable, but even more are rare and therefore more valuable together,…automatically you have a competitive advantage that lands you in the top decile of earning power.” — Tim Ferriss What are you an expert in? One thing? Two things? Three things? Too many to count? If you have many areas of expertise, you’re not alone. It’s becoming common for people to possess deep knowledge in multiple domains. That’s where it becomes tricky because society still holds the (outdated) belief that you can only have one…Expert4 min readExpert4 min read
Aug 6, 2020Top 5 ways to showcase your hybridity and standout from the crowd during an interviewBefore I knew I was, and could be, a hybrid professional, I thought it was best to minimize my multiple professional identities and spotlight only the one or two that employers wanted to hire me for. Looking for a teacher? I can teach. Need a program manager? I can manage…Interview8 min readInterview8 min read
Jul 14, 2020Crafting The Hybrid Resume: 3 Ways Hybrid Identity Can Shine Through and Strengthen Your ResumeResumes are about identity as much as they’re about describing work history. Typically, we see resumes as tools to summarize and capture our accomplishments and strengths. We don’t think about them as being snapshots of identity and how we’ve transformed over time. However, what we do is not synonymous with…Resume4 min readResume4 min read
Jun 4, 2020Is it a privilege to be a hybrid professional?You may not know it, but when I embarked on this research journey, the concept of hybrid professionals was inspired by diversity studies on race, class, and gender. Specifically, I learned about intersectionality, a term coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw, and thought to myself, “Huh, could this be applied to the…Racism3 min readRacism3 min read
Apr 7, 2020The Post-COVID Economy Will Be A Hybrid Job Market- Are you ready?Who’s heard of the hybrid job economy? Or hybrid roles? Or hybrid professionals? A few of you, but not many. That’s about to change because…work is rapidly changing. Since early March 2020: Millions of employees shifted to remote work in a matter of weeks. The unemployment rate skyrocketed to 4.4%…Identity7 min readIdentity7 min read
Jan 26, 2020Hybrids integrate identities while multipotentialites have multiple identities- which one are you?Let’s set the record straight. There are three different types of professional identity in the workforce. The commonly known types are singularity (meaning experts and specialists), and multiplicity (meaning generalists or multi-talented). The third type, hybridity, is missing. It’s time we add hybridity to our list of professional options because…Identity3 min readIdentity3 min read
Aug 5, 2019The UN has the SDG’s for global challenges, so where are the CDG’s (Childhood Development Goals) for children?What are the key things we need to do to ensure all children grow up to be healthy, competent adults who reach their full potential? That shouldn’t be a hard question to answer, but it turns out it’s currently “un-googleable.” If you want to know the fundamental things young children…Sustainable Development6 min readSustainable Development6 min read
Jul 17, 2019Becoming the Director of Futurebound- the job I was born to doA funny thing happened recently. I got a new job. Not just any job, something that I pretty much think I was born to do. Let me describe how I finally found my calling. You know how people tell you to find what you love, and you’ll never work a…Design4 min readDesign4 min read
