Beyond the Resumes

Sarah Park-Thompson is the Director of Career Services at Harvey Mudd College. She has been in career services working at various institutions for about a decade, most recently at UCLA. Before that, she also worked in diversity inclusion and academic advising. She received her BA in Sociology and Anthropology from Carleton College and her Master's in Student Development in Postsecondary Education from the University of Iowa.

Show Notes

Sarah Park-Thompson is the Director of Career Services at Harvey Mudd College. She has been in career services working at various institutions for about a decade, most recently at UCLA. Before that, she also worked in diversity inclusion and academic advising. She received her BA in Sociology and Anthropology from Carleton College and her Master's in Student Development in Postsecondary Education from the University of Iowa.

😬🤮 Worst advice: "Your major has to be congruent with whatever you go into."

🤯🤩 Best advice: "Take the best of something - go out of your way to learn something from everything."

🤗💯 Advice for others: "Listen to your intuition."

🥰📚 Most influential book: Let Your Life Speak by Parker J Palmer, The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table by Minda Harts; The Ethical Sellout: Maintaining Your Integrity in the Age of Compromise by Lily Zheng and Inge Hansen

You can connect with Sarah on LinkedIn or follow her on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.

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Beyond the Resumes is a daily ten-minute podcast that shares the worst and best life and career advice from globally recognized career leaders, LinkedIn Top Voices, executives, doctors, and entrepreneurs. Jerry Won, the founder and host of Beyond the Resumes, holds a BS from USC Marshall, an MBA from Michigan Ross, and was a former consultant at Accenture and a sales and marketing leader in multiple industries. He now hopes to share both his and his guests’ extensive careers and experiences through these daily podcasts. Our mission is to be the leading voice for career and life advice for the modern global professional and empower the next generation of modern global leaders by sharing career and life advice to help you find happiness and success.