So just, I'm going to start talking a little bit about myself. Uh So I am a senior manager at Tint. I have uh 21 plus years of experience.And before that I used to be the head of uh Brazil head Brazil of the TH service at IBM and also the head of intelligent automation RP A plus cognitive at Avanna. Uh Other than that, I am a strategist, I love sign thinking. I always thinking about ways to innovate and my complete background was a software quality. And nowadays I just love to see the value for the client using link and making digital transformations. I love to share my knowledge. So I have been a speaker to several conferences and along with the quality and also the gio, I love to do the gio engineering. My husband works in it as well. He is a Q A and DEV OPS professional. I have 12 dogs, 11 Chihuahuas and one stray dog and I have two adorable kids. He's adored Arthur. Uh She is 14 and my dear one is 10 years old. So let us think a little bit. I don't know if you ever felt like this. But you know, we so you used to do your job, you used to like what you're doing. But suddenly you start to feel a little bit cranky. You will start to ponder and to consider all the minutes that is going. No.

And I start to thinking, uh I really don't want to go there. I want to stay sleeping. I want to stay just uh thinking about life. I don't want to be here. So and we start to say, oh my God, what? This is so boring. This is so bad. What can I do about it? And then you will start to consider what is going on. So why do I feel like this? Uh is, is it the company that I work with or is this my, my boss, my leader? He's not being nice to me or I'm not feeling comfortable what is going on. But sometimes the thing is that the, the issues that we are going through, they are not, they are not having to do with the company. They don't have to do with your boss. They have to do with your daily activity, what you have been doing uh during our work. And one thing that I noticed several times in my life throughout my career is that we change. So our interesting change, we change and what we used to like we don't like anymore or what we, we want to prove we don't want anymore. So one thing that I have learned with the time is that we need to know ourselves. So I have here some things that we need to go through in order to understanding ourselves. What are your strengths? What is the thing that you are mostly strong? So, here I have a link from the V assessment. It's a very uh interesting and nice tool.

You go and you answer a lot of questions and then what you get is actually a report that says what would be your uh your restraints or what would be your, the, the force that you have the strengths that you have? This is really interesting because, and what we have learned is we have 24 character strengths in our lives. And one thing that we have noticed is that usually the first, the top five, they continue to be the top five. So actually it, it will change, maybe the first can be the third, but it will always be important. So this is really in interesting and important for us to really understand what is that makes us tick, what we, what matter to us, what is our strengths, what we can share with our people other than that after you understand, to start understanding our strengths, either isa or creativity or anything at all, you can start to understand actually what would be the your personal values.

So what matters to you? What is really important to you? This is one of the most important thing for us to know about this. Because if we haven't, this is exactly clear what matters to us indeed. What is going to happen is that if you are in a place that it doesn't respect your values, doesn't respect your needs, you're going to feel really hurt inside and you're not even going to understand. So first of all, first, uh to start to understand what would be that change, what would be this, uh what you want, you need to know yourself. So every process we start, we start by knowing ourselves. So now we know our strengths. We did the V assessment. Now we know our personal values. So what are our needs? What we really need? So I have my, my mission in life. I have my purpose in life. I know my strengths. I know my personal values. How can I tie all of this together now? You know yourself. So let's beginning uh to understand a little bit about what is going on. So what you understand is that you hate what I, what you do. So you start to question everything in your life, every little decision that you had such as you go and say, OK, uh have I majored incorrectly? Have I chosen my wrong path? My wrong career uh is my whole life like what will I do?

Oh my God, what is going to happen now? And actually it doesn't, it doesn't have to be that stressful, this change in the minute that you really understand who you are, what you want, you just develop with it. So, for example, I, I have a major in law and after I have finished my graduation, I discovered that I didn't like that much law. So I said, OK, I need to change the focus. Where do I go? And at the time, my r my hobby was it. I use, I used to love to work in computers to math. So we have the computers, games, et cetera. So I decided to start working with this and it paid really well and, uh, it paid off for me. I'm really happy about it. But sometimes I start to wonder and even, uh, in it, I have changed the focus in my career several times. So I used to be information analyst and then I decided I like it to discover bugs. And then I went to quality and then afterwards I start to see that I like this gy word, this design thing. And then I say, ok, so I'm going there. And so I changed the focus again, even in it. And I have done this about three or four times and this is really interesting and it's worthwhile. And at least for me, it, it kept me honest and made things really interesting.

So, first of all, calm down, the world is not going to end because you discovered that you don't like what you do anymore. So you, you, you need to calm down and let's start to plan. So plan your change. So let us start to consider some things. What are the skills needed to succeed in the career that you want? Remember you now know yourself, you know what you want. So you know where you want to go. Ok. So you know, you don't like what you're doing now, you know yourself and you know what you want to do. So what are the skills needed to succeed? Do you need to take a formal course? Or only readings will do the trick? What are the references you can follow on this, either Instagram, uh Twitter or linkedin? What are the reference? Can you shadow someone in your spare time? So is there anyone in your company that is doing this that you want to do? And can you start doing some shadowing formally after you have acquired some knowledge after you have acquired some uh understanding of? What is the thing that you want to do? Can you do informally pro bono until you get the experience to be paid for this? So can you do some some some work for a friend for colleagues with this type of new job that you want to do? Does your current company have this position? Can you make a drop in into this position to understand if this is what you want?

Do you have support from your loved ones. This is really important. You need to have the support from your loved ones so you can remain calm and to do this change. Is there, is there anything else you need to know that you need to understand about it? So after this, what you need to do is to build your roadmap for this change, treat the change in your career, the focus in your career as a project. OK. So what we do, we would need to understand the change, establish the timeline for this change, prepare for the change and change it and track progress accordingly. So we need to really make a plan and to work toward this. So what would be this road maps the the timeline for this roadmap? First of all, we need to start and how can we start this? You need to understand the change and then you need to understand what is the knowledge gap. So, and you need to see really clearly what do you know today as of today? In terms of where uh in terms of the hard and soft skills, you need to change the focus and then you need to understand what you need to know in order to get there.

And then you need to make this assessment, understand the gap and uh and plan accordingly what you need to do to fulfill this gap that you have. What is the market for this, for this new career that you want to do? Where is the salary ex ex expectations that you have? What is the experience required? Can you do some uh course or some introduction course in order to start fresh into this? Are there any special programs that worked out this? So for example, uh we have here at Brazil, we have several course, several programs that teach programming language for women that are not familiar with it. So if you want to start into the it world in programming, you can go to these special programs for women and they will understand this. What are the references and what is the future into this career, the trends and how you get there after you understand the change completely, you need to prepare yourself for the change. So you need to build your knowledge. Do you remember the knowledge gap that to me now you need to build your knowledge up this and you need to um start to understand what would be the positions that are into the market and the companies that are there start to mapping, linking, understand the positions that are there, understand what the positions are requiring and prepare yourself for this.

Save money. Probably if you want to change anyone into a senior position, you may uh be back a little bit and starting to uh a lower row and that's OK. So save money to get this and get, buy in from your relatives, from your family, from your loved ones. You will need that support throughout all your faith execution. So start small, start understanding and then start small project to get experience into this new thing that you are doing, do pro bono. So for example, when I start to uh do design thinking, what I did was I did this training and I did the in the foundation training, the training. And then I start to do some sessions internally with small groups and I start to get experience and more experience and then I start to shadow someone else into this session. And then I start to work and working and then I start to build the experience and then I start to got references and afterwards I was prepared and ready to do this.

So actually we start after you have the pro Bono and you start to build experience and to build your portfolio, you get the reference and then you get someone that is going to refer, you just start to advertising these references and to advertise yourself and the work that is going to do after everything you have been doing, you just go to change and then you sewage from Pro Bono to page and leave your old job, your old work behind and start this new one.

So it's uh it's really, really, really about to plan and to understand and execute. This is what I had. This is a really short talk. So do you have any questions guys? OK. So Thank you very much. And if you, if you want, feel free to contact me either on linkedin or Instagram or Twitter and uh we can keep in touch. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you, Bishops. Bye. Uh Actually what I'm saying about work pro bono is not or in a company or in your own company. So you will start to doing this with your colleagues or in your company or with friends. That depends what you're going to do. But starting pro bono to get experience it, it can be either in a company but inside your company don't leave your job before you have the experience. OK, Sarah. Yeah, actually, uh we have this website here in Brazil. So in Latin America, it's laboratoria and it does uh several uh sessions with people. It's really interesting. It's uh Ong uh NGO. Actually, it's really interesting and I believe that we have this elsewhere. I know about Brazil that we have the laboratory and the program, Maria as well.

So both, I'm sorry, program both. They get this and they do programming lessons for women. Usually what they do is a very uh selection uh an application process and then you do this free. And afterwards when you got a job with this, you pay uh a part of your salary. Any other questions? No, Jenna. Uh actually, now in the terms of the pandemic, yes, they were offered online, but I think they were offered in Portuguese. But I think you can research. I'm really sure that uh as the same as we have here in Brazil and Latin America, we have elsewhere, Latin America. You can have those in Spanish if it's easier. But here in Brazil it's only in Portuguese. Mhm. Ok. Thank you very much. So we'll keep in touch, please uh feel free to contact me either on linkedin or elsewhere. Thank you very much. Bye.