Julia Babij is a self-described Career Purpose Path Finder and a Soft Skills Super Trainer. Julia believes that everyone has talent and no one is truly lost in their career. She provides guidance and inspiration to facilitate change, by using tools including resume and LinkedIn profile writing, interview preparation and good old fashioned LISTENING!

Julia shared her personal narrative, detailing her evolution from a blue-collar upbringing, to studying psychology and becoming a counselor, then transitioning to corporate trainer and on to her current role, as a career coach.

The personal skills that inform her work are empathy, active listening, and a love of helping people become their best selves. Julia has been a leader, a manager, a mentor and a team builder, and in each role her theme has been to help people see the strengths that they themselves are unable to see.

"I have a job to do when I'm working with people and it's: Do you feel safe enough to be open and share, and do you feel safe enough to say out loud what you want? Because I want to hear you say what you want. And at a certain point in my career, I realized that I had affected people over the course of time that I was like: I would like to do this on my own."- Julia Babij

Key takeaways:

• Before you make a large financial commitment, make sure it’s something you truly want to be doing. Julia was considering studying for her Masters in Counseling. Before she made the financial commitment towards her graduate education, she worked for 3 years with a non-profit that provided mental health counseling. She wanted to be certain that it was in a field that she was going to solidly choose as a long term career.

- Recognize how the skills you’ve developed in previous roles are applicable to your next position. According to Julia, active listening was a big part of her skill set as a counselor. She had to listen for tone of voice. She had to listen for what clients were asking - and what they weren’t asking! She had to explain a concept one way for one client , and then another way for a different client. Those principles, those soft skills, were transferable as she took on the new role of corporate trainer, and then to her current role as career coach.

• Your gut knows. Julia shared that one of her life goals is to follow her gut more. She described enjoying her years in a corporate training role, and then knowing in her gut that it was time to leave and go back to the nonprofit world, with good grace, pride, and the knowledge that she had contributed all that she could contribute. Julia listened to her gut again when, several years later, she left her leadership training role to start her own practice as a career coach and consultant.

About the guest:

A mentor. A soft skills trainer. A leader. A take-it-on, roll-up-your-sleeves and build-it-from-the-ground-up innovator. Julia been all of these and more in her career under the guidance of amazing mentors. Now it's her turn to find solutions and help YOU feel empowered to choose your career path. She believes everyone has talent and no one is truly lost in their career; perhaps they just need a little guidance and inspiration to see what they cannot see. That's where Julia the Purpose Geek comes in!

Website: https://www.yourpurposegeek.com

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/purposegeek

Email address: julia@yourpurposegeek.com

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