A career recruiting and coaching people - Neha Parashar - Episode 6

Ask most professionals to describe their career story and they go blank. Neha Parashar spent years in HR and recruitment before becoming an executive coach who swears by one habit — the "career inventory." A career growth story for anyone who can't explain their journey. Hear how on My First Job.

ABOUT THIS EPISODE

Neha Parashar built a long career in HR and recruitment before shifting into executive coaching, where she now helps senior professionals navigate career growth and career transitions. In this episode, she explains the "career inventory" — a simple, ongoing practice of tracking your experiences, accomplishments, and challenges — and why most professionals only wish they'd started it years earlier.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN

• Why a long HR and recruitment career gave Neha a front-row seat to how professionals mismanage their own career story
• - What a "career inventory" actually is, and why it's different from updating your resume once a year
• - How journaling career moments in real time gives you clarity and confidence in interviews and promotion conversations
• - Why most senior professionals struggle to articulate their own journey, and what that costs them
• - Practical steps to start your own career inventory today

TIMESTAMPS (approximate)

00:00 — Intro: from HR and recruitment to executive coaching

03:27 — Neha's career path through HR and recruitment leadership

12:44 — The turning point: why she moved from recruitment into coaching

20:56 — What most professionals get wrong about their own career story

30:26 — Introducing the career inventory — what it is and how to start one

39:43 — Advice for freshers and professionals starting their own career inventory

43:36 — Closing thoughts

ABOUT NEHA PARASHAR

Executive coach specializing in career growth and transitions for mid- to senior-level professionals, after a long prior career in HR and recruitment leadership.

TOPICS

career coaching, career growth, fresher career advice, career story, career doubts, executive coaching India

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