Get Quiet Enough to Hear What's Next: Job Searching in the Age of AI, Relationship Capital, and Joy at Work (with Krista Purnell)
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When Krista Purnell was laid off for the first time, she planned on six months at home with family and then a new job back in New York. That is not what happened. What came instead was not on her bingo board, and she says it left her in a really great place.
In this episode of Ronderings, Krista, an education leader with nearly twenty-five years in classrooms, schools and nonprofits who now offers coaching and consulting, talks about looking for what comes next, being a super connector, and relationship capital in K-12 education.
She grew up the youngest of three in New Jersey, twelve years behind her sister, with Saturdays at the museum and the bookstore. She joined Teach For America in 2003, and her first years as a classroom teacher in Newark are still the hardest job she has ever had. Later, as a managing director at the education nonprofit Citizen Schools, she found her old school among those in the program. Then came a merger, that first layoff, and the hard lesson that a business decision still hurts when you have given a place a little of your heart.
The conversation turns to what a search looks like now: being honest about which roles are not hers, writing a resume for whoever is actually reading it, taking a coding class and AI courses, and making time quiet enough to hear what comes next. It also covers why she introduces people with nothing expected back, why serious work for children can still make room for joy, and why investing in people is how the results come.
It ends on her advice for anyone in a transition: be open to how your life and career unfold, because the next door may open because of what happened before.
(01:29) - Recording conversations with the people Ron knows
Krista Purnell is a dedicated lifelong educator on a mission to expand opportunity, access, and empowerment for students, teachers, and administrators.
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