Find Your Dream Job: Insider Tips for Finding Work, Advancing your Career, and Loving Your Job

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On this bonus episode of Find Your Dream Job, Mac joins Jamila Brown on the 5 Minute Career Hack Podcast to share the three questions every job seeker needs to answer: What do you want? Where do you want to go? What do you offer? Mac talks about why job searching is a skill you build through study and practice, and why doing your homework through networking and informational interviews before you apply gives you an edge over the competition.
He and Jamila also dig into how to turn your objections into questions for people who've done what you want to do, and why saying your goal out loud, specifically and often, makes it so much easier for people to help you. Listen in for Mac's closing advice: don't wait to be picked.
About the Host:
Jamila Brown is the host of the 5 Minute Career Hack Podcast and a career coach who helps individuals with career strategy.

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Do you pay close attention to the actual words you use in an interview? We all say, “um” sometimes, but does it really matter? If you feel nervous when meeting with a hiring manager, you might use fillers, disclaimers, or hedge words. According to Find Your Dream Job guest Tracy Hooper, those extra words are making you appear less than confident. If you’re ready to lose the words that sabotage your confidence, Tracy suggests recording yourself, working on losing one hedge word per month, and practicing using positive language.
About Our Guest:
Tracy Hooper is a former TV news anchor, a professional speaker, and the founder of The Confidence Project.
Resources in This Episode:
If you want to learn the skills necessary to be successful in today’s job economy, get Tracy’s new book, “The New Hello: What to Say What to Do in the New World of Work.”
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How Executive Dysfunction Affects Your Job Search (And What to Do About It), with Ben Tobin

You know you need to apply. You've blocked out the afternoon. And somehow the garage gets cleaned instead. That may be executive dysfunction, a disruption in your brain's ability to plan, organize, and follow through. In a job search, it looks like collecting postings you never apply to, over-preparing, or spending months getting ready to start.
This week, ICF-certified career coach Ben Tobin joins Mac with three ways forward. Lower the stakes: make your first goal to bomb an interview, not land one. Sit with the discomfort: that pit-of-your-stomach dread runs its course if you let yourself feel it. And build structure: schedule time, name your very first step, and write a fresh to-do list each day. As Ben says, the meta work is work — give it a place on your calendar.
About Our Guest:
Ben Tobin is an ICF-certified career coach who works with tech professionals and adults with ADHD.

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Are you considering going back to school before pursuing your dream job? What if you could get that position without paying thousands of dollars for more education? Find Your Dream Job guest Ken Coleman says it’s entirely possible, and he offers two questions to ask yourself before signing up for student loans. Ken also shares networking tips, how to pursue alternative education, and the importance of following your gut.
About Our Guest:
Ken Coleman is the nationally syndicated radio host of The Ken Coleman Show and the author of The Proximity Principle.
Resources in This Episode:
If you need help figuring out the next step in your career or job search, visit Ken’s website at kencoleman.com.
Check out Ken's book From Paycheck to Purpose: The Clear Path to Doing Work You Love
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Networking evolves with the marketplace, technology, and your own career stage, and habits that once worked can now make you look out of touch to the people you most want to impress. Find Your Dream Job guest Wendy Dukes says the fix starts with directness. Rather than spend ten minutes of a coffee meeting building up to your ask, state what you need from the start, then share the details that support your request.
Offer something in return, too, so the connection benefits you both. Wendy also urges job seekers to retire two old standbys, the business card and the printed resume, in favor of a strong, current LinkedIn presence. And remember: networking isn't limited to professional events. Your next great connection might happen in a grocery store line, at a tailgate, or even on a cruise ship.
About Our Guest:
Wendy Dukes is the director of the early careers program at the Forté Foundation.
Resources in This Episode:
Connect with Wendy on LinkedIn.
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