 Welcome back to our streamers tuning in online. Thanks for everyone that stayed around. We have a tendency to save the best for last. Our next speaker. Oh, you don't want to miss this. I'm glad you're here. We have Olga Kuvyshnova. Close? Okay. Kuvyshnova. Kuvyshnova? Kuvyshnova. She's the head of people at SoCal and she's also a career coach. I've seen her speak before on this topic and it is very exciting. Our talk today is about how to empower your own career journey. Please give a round of applause for Olga. Welcome to the stage. Hi, everyone. I hope everyone can hear me. Today I have just 10 minutes lightning talk so it's going to be very fast. Usually it takes me at least an hour to deliver my ideas. So I want to talk about empowering the career journey and I want to talk particularly about growing your self-confidence and I want to start with telling all of you that you are very valuable. I know some of you and I know that some of you have great jobs and you indeed know that you are valuable and others maybe just looking or want to look for a job or want to change and might have some self-doubt and imposter syndrome, yada, yada, yada. So please try to fight it over. Leave your internal critique alone outside. Close the door in front of his nose and remember that you are indeed valuable. It doesn't matter if you never had a job before or you never worked in the industry where you want to work. So self-confidence is indeed very important for your job search because if you are confident enough you will apply for the jobs that you want to have, that you strive to have. And if you don't think that you are good enough you will stay at a boring job where you might be burnout and that you don't get any benefits at. And self-confidence doesn't mean that you apply for a job that you have zero skills for and you don't know how to do that because it's just stupid. Self-confidence means that you know who you are, where you stand and you know where you want to go. And the biggest part of it is knowing your value and knowing what you can bring to the table. And I think this is very important that value that you can bring for the company, for the inner job that you are applying to is not only based on programming languages that you know or some other physical skills that you have. A lot of skills you have naturally in yourself are very valuable. For instance, some people are naturally good with people. Other people are good with public speaking and this is valuable and in many jobs that would be a key moment for you to be hired. So if you want to find a new job or get a new position at your current job in the industry, these are the six points that I think are super important. I already talked about the value and the value that you can bring is not necessarily the skills that you learn, but a lot of the times the skills that you already have. But it's also important to showcase on your CV, on your application letters, the value that you brought in your previous place of employment or places where you had some training, where you've done some project at university or at your course. And I always tell to all my customers that it's not what you've been doing, but what you did. A lot of people on the CV, they will write, I was managing, I was developing, but it doesn't mean anything. You could be developing and never develop anything. You need to get to the final action. What you've done, you increased that you made a site faster twice than it was before or the sales conversion is improved and so on. And this is something that will tell a potential employee that you can set a goal and you can achieve it. Right? I put here that artificial intelligence and I saw today a very nice analogy. First of all, you need to use the tools that are available. You don't have to do things that can be done for you. And that's an analogy that I'm talking about. If you have a washing machine at home, you're not going to be washing your hands by hand. Or if you have a dishwasher, you're not going to be washing your dishes by hand. Why would you do the same with writing some text that you can edit, of course, edit and proofread things that you get to the chat GPT and so on? Because when one works with the chat GPT often, you can see, I can spot on applications right now when text was generated and not edited because it's always the same. It uses the same words. It's very easy. But the base structure or at least some volume of the text that you can rewrite, some ideas, how to package information, you can use artificial intelligence for that and it's going to save you time. I always recommend to use the words that the employee used in the job post when you describe your experience. Again, be honest. Don't lie about your experience. You don't have to say that you've done something or have skills that you don't have. But you know how you can describe the same thing with different words, so use the words that they are looking for, right? And of course, doing it, working like at the events like these, maybe closing the tops when you can actually come and talk with the people who either work at the company where you want to work or even they have their booth and they are represented there because the most recruitment is actually happening through network and then you can meet people and find out if that employer is actually a nice company to work with and it's a nice place to be. And of course, nurture your self-esteem. Make sure that you source through people who are in the same position where you want to be and see how many skills you already have and for sure you have a lot because as I said, it's not only programming languages, it's other things. If you want to work at the same company for many years and grow from a starting position to a senior manager, you need to be able to communicate with people, you need to be able to get your networking at the company. You need to be generally likable because I doubt that being by a terrible asshole who cannot make friendships, you can grow at the same company from the bottom to top. Usually it's other way around. It's a person who is able to make friendship with everyone and it's so good with people that they are able to connect with different people on a different level and make them like themselves. I just want to finish on the note saying that you for sure go to what it takes and I hope I can bring you some value by that by asking you to think about key skills that you have just by your nature and one of those skills may be actually fast learning things, being very comfortable with learning new technical skills or maybe you are great in learning new languages. The people for who learning new languages, I'm speaking about actual language, not programming language, is a very easy thing and there might be some jobs where you speaking three or four languages would be a great advantage and it doesn't have to be a translator job. It can be a marketing job or the engineer job or something like that and you would be selected for that particular rare skill that you have just because this is who you are because you were born that way in a multilingual family or you lived in a different country and you had to develop that skill and you can always get a new skill along the side but it's much harder to change your personality. So that's it for me. My name is Olga. I am a career coach at Careers of G as I mentioned and I also head of people at Salkal as Santana mentioned before. Any questions? Try that again. First off, round of applause for Olga please. We have time for questions. We do have time. It's weird in the job market nowadays. I think a lot of, especially in the technology sector, a lot of people, over 150,000 Americans in the tech sector alone have been laid off or lost their jobs over the last three to six months. So this is a super timely talk. I want to open it up to any questions that we have in the audience and if we don't have any I will ask a question. So hands? Wow. I want to answer to what you said. Sure. I think it's a very humbling experience for many Americans being laid off and being in the tech market because in my experience also as a recruiter that many American people are very entitled to their jobs just because, to have a certain level of a job, not because of their skill, but because they are where they are, geographically. Before pandemic the world was already very big on remote jobs in tech. It was a big movement but since the pandemic started it started to go bigger and bigger. So it's just harder if you need to humble yourself and get in the trenches with the rest of the world. That can be. That can be. Absolutely. Questions? No, then I will pose a question because I don't want you to miss out on this opportunity to hear from Olga. Olga, I don't often hear people talk about a job search in terms of self-confidence. How much of a role do you think self-confidence plays in someone's ability to be successful at either getting a new job internally at their company or applying for a new job or switching industries? I actually think if we say the percentage, I think it's like 80%. If you don't think you are worthy of a certain job you're just not going to apply. This is interesting statistic that usually women only apply to a job when they match 100% of requirements. So if it says five years, they only will apply if they have five years. And men would apply about 60, 70 requirements met, men apply. And I always try my fellow girls that no, you should apply anyway. It won't hurt you if it's not, especially if it's not a key requirement. Today, if you have four years and they ask for five years, two can apply. What's the worst going to happen? They're not going to invite you for interview. Well, okay. The application process usually doesn't take such a long time. So yeah, this is self-confidence. So imagine how many jobs these women are missing on applying because they don't feel as they match their requirements. Fake it till you make it. Thoughts? Well, something like that. Don't say fake it. Don't fake it, be it. Well, thank you very much.