Oscar Garcia on Clubhouse

Bio

💪🏽 Chief Empowerment Officer of Aspira Consulting www.aspiraconsulting.com
🗣 Introvert turned international speaker
👨🏻‍💻 LinkedIn, Career Development & Social Selling training
🎙 Podcast host of Career Talk With OG
👨🏻‍🎓 First-Generation professional
🇲🇽🇺🇸 Fully bilingual and bi-cultural
🔥 Don't aim to impress others. Inspire them through your imperfections.

HOW IT STARTED
Growing up, I was shy and an introvert. English is my second language, and as soon as I learned how to speak it, I became my parent’s translator. My parents had basic schooling and I was on the free and reduced lunch program. I was constantly told that I was different. I was made to feel inferior for being Mexican. I was told that I was a minority.

HOW IT’S GOING
I’m an introvert turned international speaker and trainer. I’ve given nearly 400 seminars and trained over 16,000 professionals across five continents. As a first-generation professional, my career journey includes business development roles at five startups, co-founding a nonprofit, Chamber President & CEO and Community Partnerships Manager at LinkedIn. I’m the host of the dynamic and engaging podcast, Career Talk With OG. As Chief Empowerment Officer, I empower you, so opportunities come to you.

MY WHY
To empower you, so opportunities come to you? WTF does this mean? Remember senior year in high school when universities were courting that top athlete or STEM senior with a full-ride scholarship? You’re probably saying, ‘of course, Oscar. They were tops”. I agree. When you apply for a job, are you not telling the employer that you are the best candidate? Then, why isn’t that employer trying to court you? The reason is that most of us don’t know how to market ourselves.

NOTABLE CAREER MILESTONES
✅ 11 Career transitions
✅ Longest I’ve been without a job is 6 weeks
✅ Hired without experience
✅ Had positions created for me
✅ Been recruited by employers
✅ Last time I submitted a job application was 12+ years ago