Pybites Podcast

#144 - Cassandra Babilya's Career Change Checklist

December 21, 2023 Julian Sequeira & Bob Belderbos
Pybites Podcast
#144 - Cassandra Babilya's Career Change Checklist
Show Notes

Welcome back to the Pybites podcast. In this episode we have Cassandra Babilya back to talk about changing jobs + pivoting careers.

She shares personal stories, practical advice as well as her Career Change Checklist which we highly encourage you go through over the upcoming holidays ...

We hope this episode helps you reflect on your current career and make changes where necessary. Good luck!

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction episode and topic
02:44 Welcome back Cassandra + introduction
04:04 Overview of "Make Work Suck Less"
07:22 Career change checklist intro
07:50 The job cycle
10:40 3 stressful things about jobs changes
14:00 Preparation and knowledge
15:50 3 types of job changes
20:35 Personal career pivot story
22:55 Stress and burnout, things take time
24:20 Julian's career pivot
26:24 Ad segment
27:07 Reflect on what you want / don't want
31:30 Mindset shift and new habits
34:10 Goals in the context of job change
38:28 Checklist highlights
41:18 Networking / connecting on LinkedIn
45:40 Presenting skills
47:40 Go through the Career change checklist
49:00 What are you reading? / Book tips
53:00 Wrap up / final words
55:30 Outro music

Links mentioned in the Episode:
- Cassandra's Career Change Checklist
- Cassandra's Make Work Suck Less website
- Cassandra's LinkedIn
- Julian's LinkedIn
- Bob's LinkedIn