Igniting Career Transformations: Aligning Employee And Organizational Values With Tonia Martinez

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Why is it that a majority of employees find their work disengaging and unfulfilling? The ultimate answer to that is a lack of career introspection and the inability to place the right people at the right job. This process has gotten more frustrating over the years, both from the standpoint of the job seeker and the organizations trying to build a team. Tonia Martinez is the founder of Career Transformations and she has had her foot set on both sides. Tonia talks to Stephen Jaye about this continuous struggle of presenting opportunities to the right people. Learn more as Tonia shares how she manages to ignite career transformations across organizational hierarchies. --- Listen to the podcast here: Igniting Career Transformations: Aligning Employee And Organizational Values With Tonia Martinez One way, a lot of people settle for less is in their jobs and careers. I have seen some conflicting numbers around what percentage of people are satisfied with their jobs but all of them have shown that the majority of people here are disengaged and dissatisfied in some way. It will be great to find a way to better place people at the right job and that involves a little bit of effort on both sides. The process has gotten a little bit frustrating both from the standpoint of the job seeker as well as from the organizations trying to build a team. Interpersonal transformation journeys that we are all on or hopefully you are on, based on reading this, there are going to be some of you that are looking for a new job and some of you that are building an organization. Building an organization involves hiring and bringing in the right team. My guest, Tonia Martinez is the Founder of Career Transformations, and she has her foot in both sides of this. She helps both the organizations find the right people as well as people looking for a job and career transformation. She should have a lot of good insights to say about this whole process from both ends. --- Tonia, welcome to the show. Thank you very much for having me, Stephen. Thank you for joining us. Let's begin with the Career Transformations and your personal story. What prompted you to start this organization and what were your experiences, and all that? My background is 22 years of HR. For most of those years, I primarily focused on the talent acquisition space. Recruiting for organizations here in Colorado. Also in HR, you wear a lot of hats. I have helped design onboarding and orientation programs, as well as help train managers on how do we interview, how do we bring the right talent, and having a consistent process has been a lot of focus throughout my career. My passion is helping people find jobs that they are happy and passionate about and will go back the next day, and also helping clients find the right fit for the organization, so they avoid turnover. There's a concern in the hiring process on both ends the organization wanting to have the person that's going to love the job and the person wanted to have the organization that's going to love them back, whether the job was the right fit. What do you think is the factor now that is contributing to why we see so many people in the wrong job? I covered in a previous episode, this idea that our culture is based around people dreading to work. The whole, I have a case of the Mondays, Taco Tuesdays, Happy Hour on Fridays is all based on the idea on Monday something to be dreaded as opposed to something that's joyous or happier. It's twofold and maybe threefold, there's a level of digging and finding out deep in your heart and your soul, what you want to do or want to be when you grow up. A lot of times people are pressed for finding a position because they are financially strapped, laid off on the fly or for whatever reason. There are lots of reasons that you would jump into another position and not do your homework sometimes and put a time to learn about the company, the culture, the leadership team,