#96 Tessa West: Finding Work That Works For You

Tessa West is a professor of psychology at NYU. She's the author of Jerks at Work and Job Therapy: Finding Work That Works For You. Tessa's TED Talk -- The Problem With Being "Too Nice" at Work has nearly 800,000 views. In Job Therapy she provides a science-backed handbook that will help you better understand your relationship with your job and how to improve it. She also discusses the most common reasons why people are frustrated in their careers and how to address them.

In this episode we discuss:

-debunking career advice myths

-how to balance emotion & logic when making career decisions

-the difference between the person who sends hundreds of resumes out with no plan vs the person who takes action

-the 5 sources of career frustration and more

--

email questions to [email protected]