Episode 32 - The five pieces of bad career advice that women should ignore

Career Espresso

This week, I'm tackling head-on the five pieces of bad career advice that women should ignore.

Women can find themselves inundated with career tips to help them succeed. Although most of this advice is probably really well intended, it doesn't necessarily make all of it helpful. In fact, many suggestions are more likely to perpetuate rather than reduce gender bias, focusing on fixing women rather than the system and blaming women for not behaving more like men. And with so much advice out there, it's hard to know exactly what you could follow and what you just, let's be honest, really need to ignore.

In this episode, I'll unpack five different pieces of advice people seem to love to give and offer you some alternative ways of thinking about them.

Plus, as always I end the episode with a coaching question and this week it's all about tuning into your intuition.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction

01:19 The Problem with Advice

02:19 Unhelpful Career Advice for Women

03:41 The Importance of Competence over Confidence

05:08 The Double Standard for Confidence in Women

06:06 Work-Life Balance vs. Workplace Support

08:02 Promoting Merit over Gender

09:00 The Challenge of Being Yourself

09:27 The Importance of Psychological Safety

10:50 Trusting Your Instincts

12:13 Taking a Different Approach

13:13 Building Your Own Goals

14:07 Conclusion

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