Episode 2: “Reinventing Your Career in a Broken Hiring Market” with Victoria Feldman

Victoria Feldman joins us fresh from the success of her new book Hired!, which has quickly become an Amazon bestseller. Having previously joined us in Season One to discuss emotional intelligence and empathy mapping, she returns with a sharper focus: why hiring feels so unforgiving right now – and what actually works.

Victoria is an executive coach, keynote speaker and learning & development leader with more than 15 years’ experience inside some of the world’s most demanding organisations, including Amazon, Meta, Uber and Visa. Now based in Northern California, she brings a global perspective shaped by her own rich experience working across Europe and the United States, and by navigating those cultural differences firsthand.

Her work sits at the intersection of confidence, clarity and commercial reality. She is direct, psychologically astute, and uninterested in corporate platitudes. In Hired!, she challenges outdated job-hunting advice and breaks down what truly differentiates candidates in competitive markets.

In this episode, we explore the cultural contrasts between European and US hiring norms, the common mistakes candidates make at every stage of the process, and why many capable professionals undersell themselves. We also examine a deeper theme: reinvention.

Careers evolve. Priorities shift. What mattered at 25 may not matter at 45. Victoria argues that reinvention is not only possible – it’s necessary – and that confidence begins with understanding your transferable strengths and your “zone of genius”: the intersection of what you’re good at, what the world needs, and what you can be paid for.

As ever, our focus is practical. This is not theory about the future of work. It is a candid conversation about how to navigate rejection, recalibrate ambition, and position yourself clearly in a market that rewards results over responsibilities.