What’s in your “Career” Toolkit?

In this season, work is one of the hardest-hit segments of our collective lives.

It only took a few weeks for the coronavirus pandemic to upend our lives. It is a sobering reality, and we are living through a season of essential and remote. Personally, I believe these terminologies are here to stay. The way we approach work and career has shifted and we are living a new normal. These are uncertain times and many of us are building the airplane in the air as we fly. Everything is in limbo and nothing feels or seems sure.

What used to work no longer works, and we are having to dig even deeper beyond skills and technical know-how to thrive in the workplace.

Couple the pandemic with the recent killings of Ahmaud Arberry, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Rashad Brooks, and we are left gasping for breath.

For June, I asked two amazing women to share the career tools in their tool kits. One word, COMMUNITY, sums up the essence of their share and it is a word that we need now even more than ever in the era of social distancing.

Dee Olateru, Founder, Well Worn Heels & The Rich Immigrant