Welcome to Episode 7 with Dr Vicki Elsey!

If you’re looking to make the most out of your current job now but don’t know where to start, we’ll dive right into job crafting, what this is about and how this can help you to bring a sense of purpose to your daily job. 

Vicki shares her own unique journey, how she created and crafted her own path, bringing together business and psychology, both worlds she was interested in from the get-go! 

Be ready to take notes as Vicki’s insights and tips are incredibly valuable and a nice reminder that we all have the power to enjoy our careers and fulfill our purpose: we just need to be ready to take action to make that change happen! 

About Vicki

​​Vicki is an experienced and respected Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS) and a Registered Occupational Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology. Prior to joining Northumbria University, Vicki worked for an esteemed national consultancy as an Occupational Psychologist delivering projects for public and private sector clients. Vicki's consultancy expertise centres around employee selection (including bespoke design and delivery of the full range of assessment activities including graduate and senior executive), coaching (including maternity and leadership coaching) and career development. In her role at Northumbria University, Vicki leads the Applied Work Psychology Research Group and is Director for Postgraduate Education, responsible for quality assurance for the distance learning and campus-based postgraduate psychology programmes. Vicki leads a popular Learning and Development module as part of the successful MSc Occupational and Organisational Psychology Programme and supervises postgraduate and undergraduate dissertation research projects. Her research centres around career sustainability and employability, with a particular interest in supporting women's careers (including parenthood and women's health conditions), and the impact on career satisfaction, meaning and purpose.

You can contact her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-vicki-elsey-8952778/

Here are some additional ressources we talked about for job crafting: 

1. Amy Wrzesniewski study about job crafting:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh9KcabY_rg&ab_channel=JulianaFeitosa
2. ‘Personalization at Work: How HR Can Use Job Crafting to Drive Performance, Engagement and Wellbeing’ by Rob Baker: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Personalization-Work-Resources-Engagement-Performance/dp/178966294X

About Anaïs

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