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The Career Coven, with Bec & Annie

The career podcast for women giving group whatsapp vibes. For women who want to learn strategies to take them to the next level their career - and also to have a bit of a laugh along the way.

Bec and Annie share a passion for women, and an interest in self development. However, they’ve both had really different careers and learned different things along the way.

Bec’s a corporate machine, and Annie’s a startup queen. In the career coven they share and compare experiences - learning from each other along the way. Expect topics like confidence, managing up and boundaries to be discussed (usually over a glass of wine).

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Last Episode Date: 03/07/2024

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S2, E8 The Career Coven: Hiring & Careers with Clare Mullen
6 February 2025
S2, E8 The Career Coven: Hiring & Careers with Clare Mullen

In this week’s episode, Annie speaks to Clare Mullen. Clare is the Chief People Officer at the health-tech startup Scan.com. She works across the UK and the US to build that team. Annie and Bec decided, having an expert in interviewing on the show, we should probably focus on how to get a job from the perspective of someone who has really seen it all… over 20,000 interviews.Listen in to hear a discussion about: The top 3 most common problems you see in first interviews from the hirers perspective (and how to avoid them) Tips for an amazing first interview from a hirer’s perspective What candidates should be trying to find out from their future employer, as they progress through interview rounds How to standout in interviews, in a good way How Clare approached building her own career, including being a freelancer and then going into a full time role Tips for starting freelancingEnjoying this content? Please rate and subscribe on your preferred platform, and let us know what you think! hello@careercoven.com

43 min
S2, E7 The Career Coven: Career Planning & Self-Development
23 January 2025
S2, E7 The Career Coven: Career Planning & Self-Development

In this week’s episode Bec and Annie talk through self development, and how they’ve both approached building their careers. Whilst Bec has taken a very structured and deliberate approach to building her career, Annie’s career moves have been more opportunistic and often led by passion and gut instinct. Bec has a 3 year life plan, that helps her focus in on her progression and goals. They discuss the merits of both different approaches.Listen to this episode to hear more about: Resources we recommend to think about career progression and structure The roles we’ve both learned the most in How coaching has supported us both at different times The difference between coaching and mentoring Top 5 tips for career buildingEnjoying this content? Please rate and subscribe on your preferred platform, and let us know what you think! hello@careercoven.comRecommendations from this episode: Designing Your Life, Burnett and Evans

46 min
S2, E6 The Career Coven: Coaching with Seb Agertoft
9 January 2025
S2, E6 The Career Coven: Coaching with Seb Agertoft

This weeks episode is all about coaching. Both Annie and Bec have benefitted from coaching at different points in their career. They’ve also spoken about coaching at various points across season 1 and 2 of the Career Coven. In this weeks episode Bec speaks to Annie’s former coach - Seb Agertoft.This episode is for people who are either thinking about getting a coach or are interested in becoming a coach. By the way - Annie highly recommends working with Seb (the best coach she’s worked with in terms of outcomes).This episode covers: Seb’s personal journey to coaching What coaching is How there are different styles of coaching The difference between coaching and mentoringEnjoying this content? Please rate and subscribe on your preferred platform, and let us know what you think! hello@careercoven.comhttps://www.sebagertoft.com/

50 min
S2, E5 [Bonus!] The Career Coven: Listener Questions
28 November 2024
S2, E5 [Bonus!] The Career Coven: Listener Questions

In this week’s episode of the Career Coven Bec and Annie answer a series of questions from the listeners. They cover: Is there a dream job for everyone? How to balance finding your ‘dream job’ with working where you are now? Should we all be purpose driven in our jobs? How can you change culture in a highly political organisation? What to do when you’re managing engineers that don’t like to change their behaviour…And much more….Enjoying this content? Please rate and subscribe on your preferred platform, and let us know what you think! hello@careercoven.comRecommendations from this episode: Designing Your Life, Burnett and Evans Sir Wobbles wombat rescue Instagram account 5 Dysfunctions of a team, Lencioni and Leffert

31 min
S2, E4 The Career Coven: Building a Great Team with Lizzi Amartey
14 November 2024
S2, E4 The Career Coven: Building a Great Team with Lizzi Amartey

In this week’s episode, Annie speaks to Lizzi Amartey. Lizzi is the Head of People at the UK non-profit Founders Pledge. Lizzi has worked across the globe in HR, and is passion about how to build diversity into teams. Annie and Bec decided that given Lizzi’s incredible background, we should focus the chat on how to build diverse and high performing teams.Listen in to hear a discussion about: Is there a ‘right’ construction of a team? What most often goes wrong when trying to build a team How to remove ‘bad apples’ from the team How to hold an organisation to account for diverse hiring Tips for hiring diversely How to ask about diversity in a job interview processEnjoying this content? Please rate and subscribe on your preferred platform, and let us know what you think! hello@careercoven.comRecommendations from this episode: Hire slow, fire fast CultureAmp - Empower Diverse Teams BambooHR- How to recruit a diverse team CIPD - inclusive employers

47 min
S2, E3 The Career Coven: Being Interviewed
31 October 2024
S2, E3 The Career Coven: Being Interviewed

This week on the Career Coven, we talk about the process of being interviewed for a new job. It covers how to make a good first impression, how to develop a narrative around your own skills and whether or not to have notes in front of you during an interview. Bec shares her best and worst of interviews, and how she finds it easier to interview for jobs where your own experience is directly relevant. Annie share how candidates should also leave an interview with some value - it shouldn’t just feel like a one sided interrogation.Our interviewing tips include: Trying to say something interesting in the first interview, not just perfectly articulating your CV Make sure the role is clear, or push for clarity on it Keeping things quite conversational can help it to feel less nerve-racking Trying to have more than one example of your key strengths, so you’re not just talking about the same examples over and over when interviewing (boring for you) Dress appropriately - even if it’s online Listen actively to the interviewer, and don’t just try to fit ‘your examples’ into the questions being askedEnjoying this content? Please rate and subscribe on your preferred platform, and let us know what you think! hello@careercoven.com

46 min
S2, E2 The Career Coven: Pregnancy at Work with Alice Pelton
17 October 2024
S2, E2 The Career Coven: Pregnancy at Work with Alice Pelton

In this week’s episode of the Career Coven, Bec interviews Alice Pelton who is the founder and CEO of the Lowdown. The Lowdown is a health platform - where women can research their health choices (used by over 2 million women per year). Alice and Bec have an honest conversation about what it’s really like being pregnant at work, and being a leader. Bec felt that there were lots of parts of becoming pregnant which were not explained to her at all, and both Bec and Annie feel that pregnancy at work is something that is not openly discussed. We want to give a voice to some of what people go through whilst pregnant.Quote of the episode — “Women are fucking amazing actually.”A trigger warning for this episode - we do cover the topic of miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy. We know that some people will find this content upsetting, so we wanted to be up front about that. But as so many women will experience pregnancy loss on the journey to parenthood, we wanted to keep this information in.This episode covers: Getting pregnant whilst working The misinformation women are told about pregnancy Coping with the nausea How your hormones change in pregnancy, and  their impact on you The pressure to perform at your best, whilst pregnant The importance of naps How and when to tell people When you should go on mat leave Returning to work (don’t come back first week of Jan) How you prioritise better when you’re a parent Childcare once you’re coming back to workAnd most importantly - how amazingly worth it the journey to being pregnant is. Alice provides a lot of tips about what she would do differently next time she was pregnant. Gold-dust!Enjoying this content? Please rate and subscribe on your preferred platform, and let us know what you think! hello@careercoven.comContent & recommendations from this episode: Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood - Lucy Jones The Lowdown Alice’s Substack Bubble - an app for booking nannies and childcare

56 min
S2, E1 The Career Coven: How to Quit (and some life updates!)
3 October 2024
S2, E1 The Career Coven: How to Quit (and some life updates!)

On the first episode of their second season, Annie and Bec talk how to quit your job. They discuss when to quit, how to quit, and whether it’s ever a good idea to go out in a blaze of glory. Like most people, Annie and Bec debate whether it’s always best to have your next job lined up when you quit, or just to go.Listen to this episode to hear more about: How to think about job tenure Job scenarios when you may want to quit Job scenarios when you don’t want to quit How to quit well How not to quit What to do in a notice period What not to do when you quitEnjoying this content? Please rate and subscribe on your preferred platform, and let us know what you think! hello@careercoven.comThere’s a few life updates in this one - which shape some of the content of the second season. So don’t miss out!If you like our content you can follow us both on our personal platforms: Bec's Linkedin & Substack Annie's Linkedin & Substack

52 min
S1, E10 The Career Coven: Feedback
12 July 2024
S1, E10 The Career Coven: Feedback

In this last episode of season one, Annie shares her deep love of feedback, and some techniques to help make giving feedback less painful. As usual, Bec holds Annie to account on giving clear examples of these tools things actually work in practice. Whilst we both agree giving feedback is important, and that it should be specific and not vague but Bec is possibly less obsessed with feedback than Annie overall. Listen into this episode to hear us answer listener questions on: Is all feedback worth listening to? When I get feedback I don’t want to hear, I can tend to discredit the person who gave me the feedback. Is this normal? WTF is up with radical candour? Is this the same as just giving feedback?Enjoying this content. Please give us lots of stars and subscribe on your preferred platform. Let us know what you think! hello@careercoven.comRecommendations The BIFF feedback model The SBI(R) model of giving feedback Three ways to give feedback better than a third grader

49 min
S1, E9 The Career Coven: Hybrid Working
27 June 2024
S1, E9 The Career Coven: Hybrid Working

In this episode we talk about the importance of trust in making hybrid working work! Bec is a huge fan of hybrid working, whilst Annie can see more benefits of working in the office for some of the week. Listen into this episode to get tips on: How to get your team to come back into the office (carrot vs stick) The social importance of working in the office How employers have a responsibility to make the office environment productive Which work is best done in an office vs at home How hybrid working has positively impacted caregivers - and  that you can’t have one rule for some and one for otherContent recs, references & extra reading Deep work, Cal Newport (Annie) Big Tech returns to the officeAre you a fan? Please consider popping us a few stars and subscribing on your preferred platform, and let us know what you think! hello@careercoven.com 

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