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Carrie Moore, DBA | Career Contrarian
Modern career advice runs on one assumption: find your passion, turn it into a job, love what you do every day. Dr. Carrie Moore, who has spent years in HR watching what predicts whether someone thrives at work, argues that assumption has quietly become a burden for the majority of people who never feel “called” to their work. She’s seen both kinds of employees succeed. But the ones who don’t fit that mold often end up feeling like they’re doing something wrong, even when they’re doing it well.
Dr. Moore argues that we’ve confused purpose with profession, creating unnecessary pressure for people who don’t feel called to what they do. A career can be meaningful without being a mission, and a stable, satisfying working life can be a destination in its own right — not a consolation prize for people still searching for their calling.
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Carrie Moore, DBA is the Executive Recruiter for Dartmouth Health, the large, integrated health system connected to Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. Prior to this role, she worked in Human Resources for other academic health systems including Geisinger and Tower Health. Dr. Moore's career began in academia, working for the small women’s college where she received her bachelor’s degree. With a lifelong love of education, she has completed both an MBA and a doctorate in Healthcare Management. Carrie speaks nationally about topics such as employee retention and job satisfaction as well as personal identity and how it intersects with the meaning of work. Having built a high performing career without a clear professional calling, Carrie became interested in understanding what drives fulfillment and engagement when deep passion is not the engine. She now speaks to inform organizational leaders and to inspire attendees to consider their own career paths in new ways.
