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What is a hybrid professional?
The Definitive Guide

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Three activities to activate professional identity conversations on your team

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Triggers of a professional identity crisis

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Multipotentialite versus hybrid professional identity

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Dr. Sarabeth Berk Bickerton Dr. Sarabeth Berk Bickerton

Hybrid holiday enterprises…causes that are novel and noteworthy

This holiday season, I’m excited to share three organizations that I know intimately, and they inspire me daily. These organizations are focused on new solutions to pervasive problems, and I think you’ll enjoy seeing what they’re up to.

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Dr. Sarabeth Berk Bickerton Dr. Sarabeth Berk Bickerton

Hybrid work is here to stay...the future of work is hybrid and it’s time to reinvent your career!

Companies are rapidly embracing hybridity as the new way of working. The term hybrid in the workplace is being applied to everything from teams, meetings and leadership to management, policies, and job descriptions. The range of hybridization means workers must adapt too. People are not exempt. The world of hybrid work is accompanied by a world of hybrid workers.

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Dr. Sarabeth Berk Bickerton Dr. Sarabeth Berk Bickerton

The BIGGEST mistake to avoid before you update your resume—Don’t do this one thing

The major mistake professionals make who are on the job hunt is jumping straight into resume updates. Of course, you’ll need to polish all of your resume sections eventually, except you’re skipping a really key step if you go straight to this. And, most career advisors and resume writers don’t talk about this step even though they’re helping you do it! Instead of starting with your resume, do this.

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Dr. Sarabeth Berk Bickerton Dr. Sarabeth Berk Bickerton

If you're a hybrid, what's your expertise?

“If I’m a hybrid professional, what am I an expert in?” It’s a legitimate question because it sounds hypocritical to say you need to find your expertise but you can also be good at everything. I promise, you can be both, and here’s how.

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Dr. Sarabeth Berk Bickerton Dr. Sarabeth Berk Bickerton

What's the difference between having multiple work identities and being a hybrid professional?

There’s a distinction between possessing multiple work identities and being a hybrid professional. From the outset, the terms may sound interchangeable, yet they represent two different concepts and ways of working. Just because a person does marketing, sales, product development, event planning, and social media in their job—portraying they have multiple work identities—doesn’t mean they’re a hybrid professional.

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Dr. Sarabeth Berk Bickerton Dr. Sarabeth Berk Bickerton

5 Ways Job Posts Seek Hybrid Professionals

Hybrid work is on the rise, so start noticing it on job boards! Postings seeking hybrid professionals are appearing in more search results, but do you know how to spot them? It’s important to understand what to look for and how there are different clues embedded within job descriptions that signal this is a job for a hybrid professional.

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Dr. Sarabeth Berk Bickerton Dr. Sarabeth Berk Bickerton

Hybrid Interviews: Top 5 ways to showcase your hybridity and standout from the crowd

Here are my five tried and true tips for showcasing hybridity during the interview process to: a) differentiate yourself from the competition, b) leverage your “multiple identities” as a strength and not a weakness, and c) help others (i.e. employers) quickly make sense of why you’re bringing more to the table then what they expected.

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Dr. Sarabeth Berk Bickerton Dr. Sarabeth Berk Bickerton

Crafting The Hybrid Resume

We want employers to see us the way we see ourselves. If we come across as a list of generic job titles or disparate roles, employers won’t understand us. Our true value won’t leap off the page. This is the problem hybrids face when we’re capable of doing so many things.

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