Career Coaching Quotes

A lot of times when people are released or, unfortunately, get fired, they almost scramble for what it is they are going to do next. I think when you are no longer working under a big, corporate umbrella, you have to be your own brand, your own enterprise. That was my thought process before I left.

My advice to people who've lost their job: go back to the things that made you from the start.

There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.

To avoid becoming chronically unemployed, people need more than platitudes offering sympathy. Career reinvention requires encouragement and guidance.

Our members are constantly telling us that the guidance they received from Levo's mentors has helped them negotiate a raise, ask for more responsibility, build their resume, and more.

I've found that it is possible to have balance between your job and your family, that there are coaches out there who are doing it.

I made a few mistakes in the beginning of my career. I didn't have anybody to guide me. I didn't have a secretary. I didn't call up directors, or meet people asking for roles.

I know so many people who've been through situations where they've gone from one career to another and have had such a tough time because they didn't have any support doing it.

I know how difficult it is to get one job, much less an entirely new career. I'm very blessed and grateful. It's like I'm a normal person with an extraordinary journey.

What do you do if you're an executive who resigns? You declare yourself a consultant.

The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have.

After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.

Oh, my career. What career? I'm over 40.

Develop a mentor at each stage of your career - someone who will give you guidance and advice.

I am not going to go back into coaching, just to go back into coaching. It has to be the right situation. And I don't know what the right situation consists of.

Many professors tell you that you'd be good at this or that, but they don't always help you with that career path.

I don't get much career advice at all, and I would like some.

You wouldn't try and make a cake without a recipe book. Careers are just the same.

I don't really have any strategy for my career.

I want every single millennial woman to feel like Levo has improved their lives.

All my career I have done that, worked with talents, improving 19-year-olds, 20-year-olds, 17-year-olds, 18-year-olds.

I know that there are coaches who do end up sleeping on the sofa in their office.

You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.

I wasn't a businesswoman, so I didn't know how to build a career.

I spend a lot of time talking to women interested in office about how they can make it work.