Underemployed? 4 Ways to Stop Underemployment Underemployment is a real problem for many millennials. In this episode, I cover how to stop being underemployed and overcoming underemployment. I offer an explanation on how this is achieved without being overeducated and overqualified by gaining career clarity to make a career transition at career crossroads. I offer career change advice on how to conduct career exploration, career planning, and career development.   #Underemployment​ #UndSign up for the free training "Stop Feeling Stuck in Your Career: Find Your Dream Career" Sign up for the free training "Stop Feeling Stuck in Your Career: Find Your Dream Career" Take a FREE and accurate career personality test Download PDF on How to find your dream career If you enjoyed the episode, please give us a positive review and let us know what else you want to hear about. Don't forget to subscribe if you enjoyed our content. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join my group Career Change Advice on Facebook to receive regular updates and connect with others going through a career change here. Let's connect on social media: Website | Instagram | LinkedIn | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drjontam/support

Underemployed? The 5 HORRIBLE Risks of Underemployment  Underemployment can be a mistake that ruins your career. In this episode, I explore the risks, effects, and problems of underemployment and offer career advice on why you should take the risks, effects, and problems of underemployment seriously because it can seriously impact your career negatively if you let underemployment persist. #Underemployment​ #Underemployed​ #ThisMistakeRuinsYourCareer​ #CareerAdvice​ #DrJonTam Sign up for the free training "Stop Feeling Stuck in Your Career: Find Your Dream Career" Take a FREE and accurate career personality test Download PDF on How to find your dream career If you enjoyed the episode, please give us a positive review and let us know what else you want to hear about. Don't forget to subscribe if you enjoyed our content. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join my group Career Change Advice on Facebook to receive regular updates and connect with others going through a career change here. Let's connect on social media: Website | Instagram | LinkedIn | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drjontam/support

Underemployed | 6 Reasons it Exists (& Hurt Women More)  Underemployment is a new normal where millennials with higher education work in the labor force while being overeducated and overqualified in part-time or full-time positions. This episode explores why you may be underemployed, and the meaning of underemployment and why underemployment exists, especially for long-term unemployed women or fulltime mothers who are trying to transition back into the workforce from long-term unemployment.   #Underemployment #Underemployed #Overeducation #Overqualified #DrJonTam Sign up for the free training "Stop Feeling Stuck in Your Career: Find Your Dream Career" Take a FREE and accurate career personality test Download PDF on How to find your dream career If you enjoyed the episode, please give us a positive review and let us know what else you want to hear about. Don't forget to subscribe if you enjoyed our content. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join my group Career Change Advice on Facebook to receive regular updates and connect with others going through a career change here. Let's connect on social media: Website | Instagram | LinkedIn | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drjontam/support

Underemployment | 3 Ways You May Be Underemployed & Not Know   Underemployment is a new normal for millennials who finished higher education and work. In this episode, I explore what is underemployment’s meaning and definition and offer an explanation of the different definitions of what being underemployed means. I compare underemployment vs. unemployment and highlight its difference and its implication upon the labor force and why overeducation and being overqualified are common reasons millennials become underemployed.   #Underemployment #Underemployed #Overeducation #Overqualified #DrJonTam Sign up for the free training "Stop Feeling Stuck in Your Career: Find Your Dream Career" Take a FREE and accurate career personality test Download PDF on How to find your dream career If you enjoyed the episode, please give us a positive review and let us know what else you want to hear about. Don't forget to subscribe if you enjoyed our content. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join my group Career Change Advice on Facebook to receive regular updates and connect with others going through a career change here. Let's connect on social media: Website | Instagram | LinkedIn | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drjontam/support

How to Break the Bamboo Ceiling | 5 Ways that Work for Asians   This episode covers how to crack or smash the bamboo ceiling for Asian American immigrants and their children. The Asian immigrant glass ceiling requires a new Asian American playbook that involves building social capital, cultural capital, soft skills, social skills, and leadership skills to build trust to climb the corporate ladder. This episode reveals the sociology and psychology on how to navigate this process through methods such as finding mentors and sponsors, networking, identifying good workplaces, and differentiating the approaches of calling out vs. calling in.   #BambooCeiling #AsianAmericans #GlassCeiling #AsianImmigrants #DrJonTam Sign up for the free training "Stop Feeling Stuck in Your Career: Find Your Dream Career" Take a FREE and accurate career personality test Download PDF on How to find your dream career If you enjoyed the episode, please give us a positive review and let us know what else you want to hear about. Don't forget to subscribe if you enjoyed our content. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join my group Career Change Advice on Facebook to receive regular updates and connect with others going through a career change here. Let's connect on social media: Website | Instagram | LinkedIn | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drjontam/support

The Bamboo Ceiling | 2nd Generation Asian American Workplace Challenges   The bamboo ceiling for 2nd generation Asian Americans in the West is a glass ceiling for the children of immigrants who are ethnic minorities from Asia. In this video, I cover the implicit biases and discuss the implicit association test (IAT) and the common stereotypes that Asians face with the bamboo ceiling. By outlining the problem, we can look at ways of breaking the bamboo ceiling by reinventing what Margaret Chin calls the "Asian American playbook" in her book Stuck: Why Asian Americans Don't Reach the Top of the Corporate Ladder, to circumvent discrimination by discussing Susan Fiske’s stereotype content model and other sociological research.   #BambooCeiling #GlassCeiling #AsianAmericans #2ndGeneration #SecondGeneration #DrJonTam Sign up for the free training "Stop Feeling Stuck in Your Career: Find Your Dream Career" Take a FREE and accurate career personality test Download PDF on How to find your dream career If you enjoyed the episode, please give us a positive review and let us know what else you want to hear about. Don't forget to subscribe if you enjoyed our content. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join my group Career Change Advice on Facebook to receive regular updates and connect with others going through a career change here. Let's connect on social media: Website | Instagram | LinkedIn | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drjontam/support

Bamboo Ceiling | 4 Problems 1st Generation Asian Immigrants Face at Work   Asian Americans face a bamboo ceiling in the Western workplace. The bamboo ceiling for Asian immigrants in the west is similar to the glass ceiling for ethnic minorities. However, Asian Americans face their unique stereotypes, such as implicit biases that lead to the Asian American glass ceiling. In this episode, I discuss data to support the bamboo ceiling exists, Asian stereotypes, and how this results in what Reza Hasmath calls the ethnic penalty leading to underemployment and overeducation in the West.  #BambooCeiling #GlassCeiling #AsianAmericans #ImplicitBias #DrJonTam Sign up for the free training "Stop Feeling Stuck in Your Career: Find Your Dream Career" Take a FREE and accurate career personality test Download PDF on How to find your dream career If you enjoyed the episode, please give us a positive review and let us know what else you want to hear about. Don't forget to subscribe if you enjoyed our content. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join my group Career Change Advice on Facebook to receive regular updates and connect with others going through a career change here. Let's connect on social media: Website | Instagram | LinkedIn | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drjontam/support

Glass ceiling for immigrants | How to break the glass ceiling  The glass ceiling for immigrants and ethnic minorities is a common obstacle many immigrants encounter in the workplace. However, is this glass ceiling discrimination? In this episode, I explain how immigrants and ethnic minorities can break the glass ceiling in a working culture of diversity where they may face stereotypes. I use sociology to explain reasons for the glass ceiling and ethnic penalty with social and cultural capital for workplace discrimination and workplace stereotypes. My career advice for immigrants is that they need to build soft skills using the big five personality traits to crack the glass ceiling.   #GlassCeiling #Immigrants #EthnicMinorities #Stereotypes #DrJonTam Sign up for the free training "Stop Feeling Stuck in Your Career: Find Your Dream Career" Take a FREE and accurate career personality test Download PDF on How to find your dream career If you enjoyed the episode, please give us a positive review and let us know what else you want to hear about. Don't forget to subscribe if you enjoyed our content. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join my group Career Change Advice on Facebook to receive regular updates and connect with others going through a career change here. Let's connect on social media: Website | Instagram | LinkedIn | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drjontam/support

Implicit Bias and Diversity Training | How Implicit Bias ACTUALLY Works in Neuroscience   Implicit bias, diversity, and inclusion are hot topics in Western society. Often, the implicit association test (IAT) is used as the implicit bias test for implicit bias training. In this episode, I give the definition of implicit bias and discuss the neuroscience, psychology, and sociology of implicit and unconscious bias in the workplace. I break down the types of implicit and unconscious bias and its stereotypes by using Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow. This diversity and bias training/workshop also covered the big five personality traits. This presentation was given at the Canadian Institute of Traffic and Transportation (CITT) in 2020.   #ImplicitBias #UnconsciousBias #Diversity #ImplicitBiasTraining #DrJonTam Sign up for the free training "Stop Feeling Stuck in Your Career: Find Your Dream Career" Take a FREE and accurate career personality test Download PDF on How to find your dream career If you enjoyed the episode, please give us a positive review and let us know what else you want to hear about. Don't forget to subscribe if you enjoyed our content. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join my group Career Change Advice on Facebook to receive regular updates and connect with others going through a career change here. Let's connect on social media: Website | Instagram | LinkedIn | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drjontam/support

Glass ceiling for immigrants | What is the immigrant glass ceiling   The glass ceiling for immigrants and ethnic minorities is a common obstacle many immigrants encounter in the workplace. However, is this glass ceiling discrimination? In this episode, I discuss the problems immigrants and ethnic minorities face after passing immigration and entering a working culture of diversity where they may face stereotypes. I use sociology to explain reasons for the glass ceiling and ethnic penalty with social and cultural capital for workplace discrimination and workplace stereotypes. #GlassCeiling #Immigrants #EthnicMinorities #Stereotypes #DrJonTam Sign up for the free training "Stop Feeling Stuck in Your Career: Find Your Dream Career" Take a FREE and accurate career personality test Download PDF on How to find your dream career If you enjoyed the episode, please give us a positive review and let us know what else you want to hear about. Don't forget to subscribe if you enjoyed our content. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join my group Career Change Advice on Facebook to receive regular updates and connect with others going through a career change here. Let's connect on social media: Website | Instagram | LinkedIn | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drjontam/support