Masha Finn, a career coach at Merit America, talks about the importance of focusing on your transferable skills while changing careers and how best to communicate them to prospective employers. Masha explains how to identify skills from your past career that can actually be applicable in other fields, how to refine them and adapt them to different situations and how to showcase them while pursuing a new career.



Learn more about Merit America here.



CREDITS:

Host: Masha Finn

Creative Directors: Brittany Davis-Green, Anne Keenan

Created by Merit America



This is a Maed in India production

Head of Production: Mae Mariyam Thomas

Project Manager: Shaun Fanthome

Producer: Ruchi Sawardekar

Junior Producer: Saakshi Samant

Editorial Assistance: Aishwarya Patil

Sound Editor & Mix Engineer: Kartik Kulkarni, Lakshman Parsuram

Visual Design: Alika Gupta


Donate to Merit America here.

Masha Finn, a career coach at Merit America, talks about the importance of focusing on your transferable skills while changing careers and how best to communicate them to prospective employers. Masha explains how to identify skills from your past career that can actually be applicable in other fields, how to refine them and adapt them to different situations and how to showcase them while pursuing a new career.
 
Learn more about Merit America <a href="https://meritamerica.org/promoted-podcast/">here</a>.
 
CREDITS:
Host: Masha Finn
Creative Directors: Brittany Davis-Green, Anne Keenan
Created by Merit America
 
This is a <a href="https://www.maedinindia.in/">Maed in India</a> production
Head of Production: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/maemariyam/?hl=en">Mae Mariyam Thomas</a>
Project Manager: <a href="http://www.instagram.com/sfanthome">Shaun Fanthome</a>
Producer: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ruchi_saw/">Ruchi Sawardekar</a>
Junior Producer: Saakshi Samant
Editorial Assistance: Aishwarya Patil
Sound Editor &amp; Mix Engineer: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/kartik.kulkarni/?hl=en">Kartik Kulkarni</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/february_31st/">Lakshman Parsuram</a>
Visual Design: Alika Gupta
 Donate to Merit America <a href="https://funraise.org/give/Merit-America/74abb8ce-20c6-4855-9499-b8455ca78730/">here</a>.

Promoted is a podcast about how to leave low-wage work for good, produced by Merit America, a national nonprofit organization that creates fast, flexible pathways to well-paying careers for Americans stuck in low-wage jobs. In this series, we join Merit America’s career coaches to chat with their former learners about key challenges they overcame in moving from low-wage work to careers they love–and show how you can, too.

Promoted is a podcast about how to leave low-wage work for good, produced by Merit America, a national nonprofit organization that creates fast, flexible pathways to well-paying careers for Americans stuck in low-wage jobs. In this series, we join Merit America’s career coaches to chat with their former learners about key challenges they overcame in moving from low-wage work to careers they love–and show how you can, too.