Create Your Unicorn Career – eBook (ePub)

Alaina G. Levine shares her signature, data-driven Unicorn Career Framework for designing a career that honors who you are 100% of the time – and pays you appropriately for your contributions. Weaving logic and tactics with humor and heart, she guides you to:
• Recognize your full professional value, skills, and power
• Build authentic, generous relationships that open doors
• Market yourself with clarity, confidence, and joy
• Shift your money mindset to align life and career goals
• Future-proof your career and turn challenges into fuelPraise for ‘Create Your Unicorn Career’

Praise for Create Your Unicorn Career

“Alaina G. Levine is a unicorn herself – a magical mix of sparkly creativity, tactical cleverness, and relentless encouragement who has heaps of experience helping people find career paths that are both satisfying and financially viable – even during the most harrowing times. Alaina’s guidance is worth its weight in unicorn horns.”
– Siri Carpenter, Executive Director, The Open Notebook

“Alaina G. Levine’s voice leaps off the page – part STEM-educated, part strategist, and all storyteller. Create Your Unicorn Career is filled with the same energy, intelligence, and humor she brings to every stage and classroom. As someone deeply involved in STEM education and communication, I’ve seen countless career guides, but few combine data-driven strategy with such heart and authenticity. Alaina helps STEM professionals see that their analytical mindset isn’t a limitation – it’s their superpower. She gives readers permission and practical tools to create a career as unique as they are.”
– Steve Spangler, Television Host, STEM Educator, Author, The Engagement Effect

“Alaina G. Levine has written the rare career guide that speaks directly to the scientific mind while honoring the full human behind it. With wit, wisdom, and a deep understanding of STEM culture, she shows readers how to treat their careers like a dynamic research project by collecting evidence, analyzing patterns, and iterating toward joy, meaning, and financial strength. Create Your Unicorn Career is a powerful reminder that your uniqueness is not an anomaly to correct, but a discovery to cultivate. Every job seeker, career explorer, and innovator should read this.”
– Keivan Guadalupe Stassun, Director, Frist Center for Autism & Innovation, Vanderbilt University and MacArthur Fellow