Making Excellent Career Choices

Making Excellent Career Choices
🎯 It’s really important that what you do, you thoroughly enjoy it - 6:32
🎯 If you don’t like what you do, you’ll do it in a less than excellent way - 6:39
🎯 Where you are may not be where you want to be but once you are able to articulate where you want to be, it would give you the fuel, energy, and passion to run with that place you don’t really like in terms of “I know where I am going, this is just for a certain amount of time” - 9:02
🎯 Whatever it is you find your hands doing, do it well, - 9:32
🎯 In where you are, it could be that the people you are helping in that capacity are the people that would help you get to that vision that you see - 10:01
🎯 Where you are now is actually practice for where you are going - 10:17
🎯 When you practice doing your best in insignificant things or things you don’t even like doing, you are practicing to be excellent when you actually get to something exceptional which is really want to do - 10:26
🎯 Purpose and passion go hand in hand - 10:49
🎯 The things you are most passionate about are the things that are actually your purpose, what God created you to do - 10:59
🎯 Find your purpose and you will find passion - 11:06
🎯 It’s possible that even if you don’t find purpose, purpose can find you where you are - 11:56
🎯 It’s absolutely fundamental that you love the work you are doing until you find the work that you love - 12:10
🎯 It’s possible to be in the right team but the wrong organization - 13:10
🎯 It’s possible to be in the right organization but in the wrong industry - 13:15
🎯 It’s possible to be in the right industry but in the wrong location - 13:20
🎯If you are stuck, you just need someone like a mentor, a coach, who can look on the outside to see where you are stuck and help you through the process of being unstuck - 14:59
🎯 Sometimes, it’s not always the best-qualified person who gets the job - 17:51
🎯 When you change, the situation changes - 19:11
🎯 You need to understand that you can never finish a day’s work in a day - 21:11
🎯 Sometimes, it is people’s urgency that they place on you - 21:25
🎯 Don’t wait to be triggered, take those breaks as you go along - 25:27
🎯 You can’t look at someone else and put the pressure on yourself that you have to function the way they do, everybody’s capacity is different - 25:49
🎯 It doesn’t make you less the person that you are if you are not able to do something at a particular season - 26:36
🎯 Leadership is about being exemplary in the place where God has placed you - 29:55🎯 You are either leading people in the right way or in the wrong way, consciously or unconsciously - 30:36

Kemi Oye is an Executive and Career Coach, TEDx Speaker, Trainer, and Human Resource Expert.
Known as The Career Doctor and founder of The Career Fitness™ Inc, a company that is committed to helping people attain career fitness by helping them get clarity on the right type of work that fits their innate abilities, strengths, talents, and passion so that they are fulfilled, thrive in the workplace, and transform organizations.

 She is an accredited practitioner of the Global Discovery Insights and DISC personality profiling tools, a Chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and a privileged alumnus of the Olusola Lanre Coaching Academy (OLCA) and an Emotional Freedom Technique and Matrix Reimprinting (EFT) Practitioner. She holds several other certifications in Leadership and Management. 

She is authoritatively positioned in her career with over two decades of experience in the Human Resource Management space. She currently consults with one of the top 5 largest employers of labor - NHS England.