Why Most Career Advice for Women is BS -Video
Why Career Advice for Women is BS
It’s hard to be an ambitious woman trying to advance her career. Even armed with the Googling power of Al Gore’s Internet, it’s difficult to know exactly what to do to move up.
The articles online all seem surprisingly united – Get a Mentor! Work on Your Impostor Syndrome! Just Be More Confident! – but when you implement the advice in real life, it falls flat.
Et tu, hbr.org?
The reason your thought-leadership-fuelled attempts to build an exciting career are withering on the vine is because the advice you’re getting is…kind of bullsh*t. Most career advice aimed at women follows predictable patterns that disempower women and keep them busy working on self-improvement projects that distract from the things they really need to do to move up.
Talk Outline:
This talk will focus on how to identify the career advice women get that sets them up for failure. We’ll cover:
- The hidden forces that shape media coverage of issues affecting working women
- Why women’s issues are persistently framed as internal problems, not systemic issues
- Why conversations about Impostor Syndrome, Confidence, and Mentoring are not helping you get ahead at work
- The things you should focus on to help you move into positions of power, authority, and influence
The goal of this conversation is to help you decode how working women’s issues are framed so you can focus on things that will actually make a difference to your career.
About Our Speaker
Allison Venditti
Founder, Moms at Work
Allison Venditti is a career coach, Human Resources and advocate with over 20 years of experience creating programs, policy and best practices that improve workplace cultures and increase employee retention. She is the founder of Moms at Work, Canada's largest professional network for working moms.
When not working, Allison can be found sitting on her front porch in her favourite Star Wars tee-shirt planning her next advocacy initiative or biking around Toronto with her three boys – yes, even in wintertime.
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